"Fundamentally, the question has to be 'Why are you engaging an independent contractor?'"says lawyer
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A contract that identifies a worker as an independent contractor is no guarantee that they actually are one, according to Michael Horvat, a partner in the Workplace Law Group at Aird and Berlis in Toronto.