Brad Trost’s courtroom war with the Conservative Party of Canada seems to have come to a quiet end. A panel of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled against Trost in April, awarding $22,000 in legal costs to the CPC, and on Monday morning the Ontario Court of Appeal denied Trost leave to carry the quarrel any further. Trost will not have the chance to defend the Saskatoon-University seat he holds for the party. The traditional Canadian answer is “Almost never”; it has been all but impossible until recently for political parties to be sued at all. The three-judge Superior Court panel delivered quite a strong (and unanimous) lecture in favour of the old principle that political parties are private actors, not to be second-guessed willy-nilly by courts.

Source: National Post September 25, 2018 12:56 UTC