Global News published this video item, entitled “Linda O’Leary trial: Latest update as wife of Kevin O’Leary faces charge in fatal boating collision” – below is their description.
It’s an issue of responsibility: Who is legally to blame for two deaths after a boating collision on Lake Joseph on August 24, 2019?
It was a crash that took the lives of 64-year-old Gary Poltash of Florida and 48-year-old Suzana Brito of Uxbridge.
Linda O’Leary, wife of businessman and former “Dragon’s Den” stars Kevin O’Leary, is facing a single count of careless operation of a vessel under the Canada shipping act.
This week–the court was shown a security video from the dock of Muskoka neighbour who hosted a dinner party hours before the collision.
Sean O’Shea has more on the trial and what’s at stake for O’Leary.
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As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
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