Removing a business partner in Ontario gets far more complicated once a business has three or more owners instead of two. A disagreement between two partners often ends with one partner buying out the other, but a dispute involving three, four, or more partners raises different questions, such as who actually has the authority to remove someone, how a decision among the remaining partners gets made, and what the departing partner is owed.

When two or more people run a business together, each partner takes on a legal obligation to act honestly and fairly, but what happens when a partner breaks their legal duties?