The plaintiff, a former investment and retirement planner, sued the defendants for constructive dismissal.
In his statement of claim, he pleaded details of two prior settlements between the defendants and the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC).
The defendants brought a motion under Rule 25.11 to strike these paragraphs as irrelevant, prejudicial, and an abuse of process.
The court agreed that the paragraphs lacked a pleaded nexus to the plaintiff's cause of action and struck them, but granted the plaintiff leave to amend the claim to properly plead how the regulatory history impacted his treatment by the defendants.
