As regards the conspiracy claims, the amended statement of claim alleges that the defendants conspired to use unlawful means, namely misrepresentations to induce the plaintiffs to enter into contracts in order to generate profit for the defendants. To succeed in an action for conspiracy against TSCC, the plaintiffs would have to establish that (1) TSCC made an agreement with one or more of the other defendants; (2) that agreement involved unlawful conduct; (3) the unlawful conduct was directed at the plaintiffs; (4) TSCC ought to have known that the conduct would injure the plaintiffs; and (5) injury to the plaintiffs actually resulted: Cement Lafarge v. B.C. Lightweight Aggregate, 1983 CanLII 23 (SCC), [1983] 1 S.C.R. 452, at pp. 471-72.
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