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Court of Appeal Upholds Ruling That CP Rail Was Not Liable for Lac-Mégantic Disaster

26 February 2025 11:20 PM
BCI 24 News Network

Quebec’s Court of Appeal has upheld a 2022 lower court ruling that found Canadian Pacific Railway did not have legal liability for the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster that killed 47 people.
The province’s high court heard arguments from three joined appeals seeking that the railway company be required to pay into a compensation fund for about 4,000 victims of the 2013 tragedy.
Canadian Pacific was the only one of 24 companies targeted in a class-action lawsuit that refused to voluntarily pay into the victim compensation fund, which totalled about $460 million.
In December 2022, Superior Court Justice Martin Bureau ruled that Canadian Pacific’s behaviour, whether at fault or not, was not the “direct, immediate and logical cause” of the damages suffered by victims….