The Queen v. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
- The Queen v. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
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case-name=The Queen v. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
full-case-name=Her Majesty The Queen in right of Canada v. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
citations= [1983] 1 S.C.R. 205
heard-date=February 17, 1982
decided-date=February 8, 1983
ruling=The Board's appeal was dismissed.
SCC=1982-1984
NotParticipating=Laskin C.J. and Wilson J.
Unanimous=Dickson J.
"The Queen v. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool", [1983] 1 S.C.R. 205 is a leading case of the Supreme Court of Canada on tort law. The Court rejected the tort of breach of statutory duty. The courts should only use breaches of a statute as evidence towards an established tort and should not be trying to determine whether the legislature intended to allow a private right of action.
The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool delivered a shipment of infested wheat from one of its terminal elevators to the Canadian Wheat Board, which violated section 86(c) of the "Canada Grain Act". The Board sought to recover damages for the statutory violation.
At trial, the Federal Court of Canada held in favour of the Board but was reversed on appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal.
The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the breach of the Act gave the Board a private right of action.
Justice Dickson, for a unanimous Court, dismissed the appeal of the Board and held that there was no private right of action. Dickson examined the tort of breach of statutory duty in both England and the United States. He concluded that damages for breach of statutory duty should be subsumed by the law of negligence. He further rejected any novel right of action for damages for breach of statute and instead stated that the breach can be used as evidence of negligence and as evidence of a standard of care.
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