'If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I don't care how you pay the guy'
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“The distinction between a dependent contractor and an independent contractor is subtle, because a lot of it's the same test, but it's different,” says Barry Fisher, a mediator and arbitrator of employment and labour relations matters in Toronto.