By Jeffrey R. Smith
A Nunavut worker’s bid for additional compensation after a workplace injury was shut down by the courts, which ruled he had no right to appeal outside the workers’ compensation system—and that he filed his challenge too late anyway. After losing at every level of the internal process, the worker tried to take his case to court, claiming unfairness, but the judge found the argument unsupported and procedurally flawed. In a sharp rebuke, the court called the case “doomed from the outset,” criticized the worker’s lawyer for mishandling it, and even ordered that no legal fees be charged—while leaving a narrow door open for the worker to try again, properly this time.
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