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TORONTO 鈥?Ontario lawmakers approved a bill on Wednesday that sets a higher bar for class action suits, and experts say it will be harder for consumers to sue businesses.Because the test is more challenging now, many cases will get dropped. Businesses could likely defeat them, says Toronto lawyer Margaret Waddell. Now if a company acts badly, that behaviour will go unchecked 鈥?and consumers won ;t have remedy for the harms they suffered.Currently, a judge must approve or certify that a class action meets minimum legal requirements for it to proceed. Under the new law, judges would have to consider stricter guidelines before permitting a group to sue a company. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW That means businesses could success stanley cup fully bat away more potential lawsuits before they go forward, Waddell says.The new standard, similar to what is used in the U.S., is not easy for th stanley cups e average consumer to meet. Successful class actions on residential schools, environmental tragedies such as the E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ont. and tainted blood would not have made it past this new test, the Law Commission of Ontario has estimated. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW To get a class action to court, a group would now have to prove that the class action is better than any other way of resolving the dispute 鈥?for example, an individual lawsuit, tribunal complai stanley cup nt or 822