Landmark ruling upholds dismissal of first privacy class action on merits

By Anne Merminod (June 27, 2023, 1:26 PM EDT) -- On March 30, 2023, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the Quebec Court of Appeal’s ground-breaking decision regarding the loss of personal information in the case of Lamoureux c. Organisme canadien de réglementation du commerce des valeurs mobilières (OCRCVM), 2022 QCCA 685. This ruling marks the first judgment rendered at the merits stage for a privacy class action involving a loss of personal information in Canada. The plaintiff, Danny Lamoureux, had filed the class action, but it was ultimately dismissed in its entirety....