By Garett Schromm ( June 5, 2017, 8:33 AM EDT) -- The Supreme Court recently refused leave to appeal from the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in Poplar Point First Nation Development Corporation v. Thunder Bay (City) [2017] S.C.C.A. No. 60, aff’ing 2016 ONCA 934, reversing 2016 ONSC 457. The Court of Appeal held that the court retains discretion to grant relief from forfeiture in a civil proceeding even where the forfeiture is created by operation of statute, as long as the statute does not explicitly or by necessary implication exclude the court’s power to do so....