By Ronald D. Davis and Keira Zlahtic ( November 5, 2021, 8:44 AM EDT) -- No Ontario plaintiff’s counsel lives without some fear of bumping up against a limitation period. Newer limitations legislation has complicated matters, substituting the discovery of a claim for the common law’s historical discovery of a cause of action as the limitation period trigger. As Justice Graeme Mew, lead author of the authoritative The Law of Limitations, has observed, “appellate decisions which have considered and applied the provision are not always easy to reconcile” (J.C. v. Farant, 2018 ONSC 2692, at para. 72)....