Antrim Truck Centre v. Ontario (Transportation) and the Ethos of De Facto Expropriation
I: The Ethos of De Facto Expropriation Statutory schemes across Canada, such as Ontario’s Expropriations Act, RSO 1990, c E.26, provide that if the state directly expropriates private property, it must compensate the erstwhile owner of that property. It has long been recognized, however, that state regulation of private property that has the effect of eliminating […]