Recent Developments on the Duty of Honest Performance in Ontario Contracts
September 16, 2025 By Mark Mikulasik The Supreme Court of Canada’s 2014 decision in Bhasin v. Hrynew fundamentally changed Canadian contract law by introducing the duty of honest performance—a general duty requiring parties to act honestly in the performance of contractual obligations. Since then, Ontario courts have steadily developed and applied this principle in a […]