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You’Ve Got To Have (Good) Faith: Good Faith’S Trajectory In Anglo-Canadian Contract Law Post-Wastech And The Potential For A Duty To Renegotiate, Vanessa Di Feo
You’Ve Got To Have (Good) Faith: Good Faith’S Trajectory In Anglo-Canadian Contract Law Post-Wastech And The Potential For A Duty To Renegotiate, Vanessa Di Feo
Dalhousie Law Journal
This paper argues that the organizing principle of good faith should be judicially developed to include a duty to renegotiate in situations of hardship. It looks to the French Civil Code and the UNIDROIT Principles for guidance, in addition to Canadian law’s receptibility to an incrementally expanded principle of good faith. Although the Supreme Court of Canada rejected hardship in the 2018 case of Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corp v Hydro-Québec, it did not forever close the door to this doctrine in Québec in situations of true financial peril. Given the “judicial dialogue” between Québec civil law obligations and Anglo-Canadian …