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The statutory escape hatch: Why CIBC lost where Van Dolder won

By Anthony L. Giannotti ( November 2, 2026, 1:08 PM EST) -- Just when employers thought they could put the antacids back in the medicine cabinet, the Ontario Court of Appeal has delivered another reminder that the wording of an employment contract matters. And, as the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has now discovered, a promise to comply with the law is not necessarily enough to save a termination provision that says something quite different....