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April 7, 2000  579 - 654 (INDEX)                                                            le 7 avril 2000

CONTENTS                                                   TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Michael Nikkanen

Alan D. Gold

Gold & Fuerst

v. (27645)

Her Majesty the Queen (Ont.)

Susan G. Ficek

A.G. for Ontario

FILING DATE 14.12.1999

Donald Russell

Dirk Derstine

Derstine, Penman and Associates

v. (27732)

Her Majesty the Queen (Ont.)

David Finley

A.G. for Ontario

FILING DATE 1.2.2000

A.-L.T.

Fred C. Lowther

MacLean Nicol

v. (27814)

W.B. (Que.)

Roland Yves Gagné

Magdelénat Tobolewski Gagné

FILING DATE 23.3.2000

Joseph William Hnatiw

Joseph William Hnatiw

v. (27601)

Hilda Scamstad et al. (Sask.)

Frank G. Quennell

Robertson Stromberg

FILING DATE 20.3.2000

E.T.H.

Marvin R. Bloos

Beresh Depoe Cunningham

v. (27709)

Her Majesty the Queen (Alta.)

Arnold Schlayer

A.G. for Alberta

FILING DATE 18.1.2000

David Masmarti

Pierre-Hugues Fortin

Kalman Samuels, Q.C., & Associés

c. (27712)

Me Bernard Cohen et al. (Qué.)

Murielle Lahaye

Commission des affaires sociales

DATE DE PRODUCTION 22.3.2000

Mansour Ahani

Barbara Jackman

Jackman, Waldman & Associates

v. (27792)

The Minister of Citizenship & Immigration et al. (F.C.A.)

A.G. of Canada

FILING DATE 7.3.2000

Gérald Robitaille & Associés Ltée

Daniel Des Aulniers

Grondin, Poudrier, Bernier

c. (27799)

Sa Majesté la Reine du Canada (Qué.)

Robert Monette

DeBlois & Associés

DATE DE PRODUCTION 13.3.2000

Chief Councillor Mathew Hill, also known as Tha-lathatk, on his own behalf and on behalf of all other members of the Kitkatla Band and Kitkatla Band

Jack Woodward

Woodward & Company

v. (27801)

The Minister of Small Business, Tourism and Culture et al. (B.C.)

Paul Pearlman, Q.C.

Fuller Pearlman & McNeil

FILING DATE 16.3.2000

Wilton Anthony Smith

David M. Tanovich

Pinkofsky Lockyer

v. (27802)

Her Majesty the Queen (Ont.)

Milan Rupic

A.G. for Ontario - Crown Law Office - Criminal

FILING DATE 16.3.2000

Murray Ernest Greenwood, as administrator ad litem for Don Wilhelm

Peter Foley, Q.C.

Gauley & Co.

v. (27807)

Vernon Hickson et al. (Sask.)

Michael S. Hall

Hall & Revering

FILING DATE 20.3.2000

André Ledoux

André Blanchet

c. (27808)

Sa Majesté la Reine (C.A.F.)

Martin Gentile

Procureur général du Canada

DATE DE PRODUCTION 21.3.2000

Titus Nguiagain

Titus Nguiagain

c. (27809)

Ville de Québec et al. (Qué.)

Guy Bilodeau

Boutin, Roy & Assoc.

DATE DE PRODUCTION 22.3.2000

Franceschina Martelli

Franceschina Martelli

c. (27811)

La Commission des affaires sociales et al. (Qué.)

Luce Terrien

Lemieux, Chrétien, Lahaye & Corriveau

DATE DE PRODUCTION 22.3.2000

Ronald John Baas et al.

Michael R. Giroday

v. (27812)

Gail Lorraine Jellema (B.C.)

Robert C. Brun

Harris & Brun

FILING DATE 22.3.2000

Russell Kalashnikoff

David M. Rosenberg

Rosenberg & Rosenberg

v. (27803)

Her Majesty the Queen (B.C.)

Robert Frater

A.G. of Canada

FILING DATE 16.3.2000

Autobus Thomas Inc.

Daniel Bourgeois

Pothier Delisle, s.e.n.c.

c. (27804)

Sa Majesté la Reine (C.A.F.)

Marie-Andrée Legault

P.G. du Canada

DATE DE PRODUCTION 17.3.2000

Walter Antkiw

Jeanie DeMarco

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

v. (27806)

Susan Verscheure et al. (Ont.)

Sheena J. MacAskill

McCarthy, Tétrault

FILING DATE 20.3.2000

Barry Robert Morrison

Frederick C. McElman

Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales

v. (27813)

The Society of Lloyd’s (N.B.)

Terrence L.S. Teed

Bingham Blair MacAulay Erhardt Teed

FILING DATE 23.3.2000

MARCH 27, 2000 / LE 27 MARS 2000

                                              CORAM:   Chief Justice McLachlin and Iacobucci and Major JJ. /

Le juge en chef McLachlin et les juges Iacobucci et Major

Ravi Devgan

v. (27567)

Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario (Crim.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Procedure - Appeals - Abandonment of appeal - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in law in failing to set aside the notice of abandonment of the Applicant’s appeal against conviction when the notice was filed by the solicitor for the Applicant without the Applicant himself knowingly giving his consent to such filing - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in law by denying the Applicant the right to pursue his appeal against conviction when he had clear and cogent grounds for succeeding on his appeal - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in law in rendering its decision without considering that there would be no prejudice to permit the Applicant to argue his conviction  appeal and that there would be a miscarriage of justice not to permit him to proceed with his appeal - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in law in failing to give effect to the overwhelming evidence before it that the Applicant would have pursued his appeal against conviction, had he known he could have?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

October 29, 1999

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal sentence filed

February 28, 2000

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal conviction filed

March 23, 2000

Supreme Court of Canada

(McLachlin C.J., Iacobucci and Major JJ.)

Application for leave to appeal sentence dismissed

Atlas Industries Ltd.

v. (27402)

The Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board and The Sheet Metal Workers' International Association,

Local 296 (Sask.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Labour law - Labour relations – Construction industry under special regime of province-wide negotiations - Firm with small portion of work force involved in construction industry - Labour Relations Board including all firm’s work force in the construction industry regime - Board’s decision found to be in error on judicial review - Court of Appeal reversing decision of chambers judge - Whether Court of Appeal erred in allowing the appeal and reversing the decision of the learned Chambers Judge in the Court of Queen's Bench.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Glaxo Group Limited and Glaxo Wellcome Inc.

v. (27457)

Novopharm Limited and The Minister of National Health and Welfare (F.C.A.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property law - Patents - Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, SOR/93-133, s. 2 “medicine” - Whether the decision of the Court of Appeal is in conflict with  Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. v. Canada (Minister of National Health and Welfare) (1995), 67 C.P.R. (3d) 25 (F.C.A.), leave to appeal ref’d [1996] 3 S.C.R. xi - Whether the Court of Appeal correctly found that “medicine” did not include devices for delivering medicaments.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Stanley Magda

v. (27420)

The St. Catharines Standard, a division of Southam Inc.

-and-

 Burgoyne Holdings Inc. (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property law - Trusts and trustees - Misappropriation - Knowing assistance- Knowing receipt - Whether, in a case of knowing receipt by a stranger to a trust (which receives misappropriated funds), there must be evidence that the stranger to the trust actually benefited from those misappropriated funds - Whether there was any evidence of actual knowledge that the property and funds in issue were the product of or derived from misappropriation - Interpretation of Air Canada v. M & L Travel Ltd. [1993] 3 S.C.R. 787.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Alpha Laboratories Inc., Reese Nuclear Medical Laboratories Ltd.,

Bio‑Test Laboratory Inc., and Metro Medical Laboratory Limited

v. (27419)

Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Ontario (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Statutes - Interpretation - Regulations - Validity - Retroactivity - Ontario Regulation 2/98 adopted under Health Insurance Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.6 - Whether Regulation valid - Whether a government paying for services under a regulatory funding formula can change that formula retroactively so as to confiscate payments made under a previous formula without express statutory authority to do so - Whether such a retroactive change can be made on the rationale that service providers should be deprived of earnings resulting from conduct which the government presumed to have occurred and perceived to be harmful to the public interest but which was never proven to be illegal.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM:   L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ. /

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache et LeBel

Son Mach

v. (27674)

Her Majesty The Queen (Crim.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal Law - Trial - Jury Charge - Procedural Law - Severance - Flight and concealment - Reputation for dishonesty and manipulation - Whether a jury charge should have instructed that evidence of flight and concealment could not be used to show that the Applicant had the requisite intent for murder  - Whether Court of Appeal erred in holding that post-offence conduct could be used as evidence of consciousness of guilt to determine level of intent - Whether a jury charge should have instructed that evidence of a reputation for dishonesty and manipulation should not be considered when assessing weight to be given to a statement to police - Whether Court of Appeal erred in holding that the trial judge did not err in failing to give jury a limiting instruction on the use of evidence led by co-accused that the applicant had a disposition for lying and manipulation - Whether Court of Appeal erred in holding that trial judge did not err in failing to grant severance.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Spire Freezers Limited, Patrick Gouveia, John O'Neill, Edward Butcher, John Dobrei, Maroje Miloslavic

v. (27415)

Her Majesty the Queen (F.C.A.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Taxation - Assessment - Statutes - Interpretation - Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in finding that the Canadian parties had not entered into a partnership - Proper interpretation and application of Continental Bank Leasing v. Canada, [1998] 2 S.C.R. 298 - Section 96  of the Income Tax Act , R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp .).

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Theodore J. Tait

v. (27422)

Royal Insurance Company of Canada (N.S.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Insurance - Claims - Defences - Applicant filing insurance claim for loss arising out of fire - Respondent insurer declining coverage, claiming that fire had been deliberately set - Trial judge dismissing Applicant’s claim - Whether an individual has the right to have counsel present during his trial in civil proceedings - Whether there is a duty upon an insurer to conduct a thorough and credible investigation in assessing the merits of an insured’s claim.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Bertrix Corporation et Tierra Del Sol Beach Resort Hotel C Por A

c. (27401)

Valeurs mobilières Desjardins Inc. et autres (entités corporatives) et

Claude Béland et autres (administrateurs) (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Procédure civile -  Cautionnement pour frais -  Résidence à l’étranger - Situation financière - Détermination de la valeur du cautionnement pour frais par les juges - Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q., c. C-25, art. 65 (ci-après “C.p.c.”).

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Eustace Reeves

v. (27086)

Reginald Arsenault, Mary Kyra Lynn Gauthier, Herbert Gauthier

and Home Insurance Company (P.E.I.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Torts - Damages - Soft tissue injury - Aggravation of pre-existing injury - Application of “crumbling skull” doctrine - Applicant diagnosed with myofascial pain syndrome - Trial judge reducing award of damages by 25% due to Applicant’s pre-existing condition and further 10% for failure to mitigate his damages - Non-pecuniary damages of $75,000 reduced to $45,000 by Court of Appeal - Whether lower courts erred in application of principles in Athey v. Leonati, [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM:   Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ. /

Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

Daniel Matthew Nette

v. (27669)

Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(B.C.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal Law - Murder - Causation - Whether the causation test for second degree murder is lower that the standard articulated by R. v. Harbottle, [1993] 3 S.C.R. 306, for first degree murder - What is the correct formulation for the standard of causation for second degree murder?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

James Matthew Carrie

v. (27684)

Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(B.C.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law -  Evidence - Right to fair trial - Sexual assault -  Use of a firearm during commission of indictable offence - Corroboration - Whether Court of Appeal erred in its assessment of corroborative evidence and in accepting trial judge’s finding as to credibility and use of weapons - Whether Court of Appeal erred by failing to recognize that the accused did not hear the proceedings of the trial because of his hearing impairment and as a result was not able to advise his counsel on the proceedings of the trial.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Emmanuel Feuerwerker

c. (27664)

Sa Majesté la Reine (Crim.)(Ont.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Droit criminel - Fraude - Procédure - Détermination de la peine - Opinion médicale sur la capacité mentale du demandeur - Plaidoyer de culpabilité - Capacité d’acquiescer ou de refuser de plaider coupable.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Janine Bailey

v. (27427)

Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada and The Public Service Commission (F.C.A.) (Ont.)

AND BETWEEN:

Elisabeth Lavoie and Jeanne To Thanh Hien

v. (27427)

Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada and The Public Service Commission (F.C.A.) (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian  Charter  - Civil - Civil rights - Equality - Whether s. 15(1) of the Charter  protects against discrimination between citizens and non-citizens in referral to open competitions for positions in the federal public service - Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in finding that it did not - Public Service Employment Act , R.S.C. 1985, c. P-33, s. 16(4) (c).

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

April 21, 1995

Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division (Wetston J.)

Applicants’ actions dismissed

May 19, 1999

Federal Court of Appeal

(Marceau, Desjardins and Linden [dissenting] JJ.A.)

Appeals dismissed

August 12, 1999

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed by Applicant Bailey

August 18, 1999

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed by Applicants Lavoie and To Thanh Hien

Conrad P. Godbout et Yvette Pilié

c. (27428)

La Municipalité de la paroisse de Saint‑Pie (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit Municipal - Environnement - Nuisances - Procédure civile - Requête pour permission d’appel hors délai - Le règlement sur les nuisances de l’intimée est-elle ultra vires - Les droits des demandeurs garantis par la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, L.R.Q., ch. C-12, ont-ils été violés - Le juge de première instance avait-elle l’obligation d’aviser les demandeurs de la nécessité d’un avis sous l’art. 95 du Code de procédure civile, L.R.Q., ch. C-25 - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en rejetant la requête des demandeurs pour permission d’appeler hors délai en vertu de l’art. 505 du Code de procédure civile - L’intimée a-t-elle violé la Loi sur la protection des arbres, L.R.Q., ch. P-37?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

APRIL 3, 2000 / LE 3 AVRIL 2000

CORAM:   Chief Justice McLachlin and Iacobucci and Major JJ. /

Le juge en chef McLachlin et les juges Iacobucci et Major

Kin Yung Ku

v. (27466)

Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(B.C.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian  Charter  - Criminal - Criminal law - Pre-trial procedure - Judicial interim release - Whether the Supreme Court of British Columbia erred in upholding the order denying the Applicant judicial interim release pursuant to Part XVI of the Criminal Code  of Canada - Whether s. 515(10)(c) of the Criminal Code  is inconsistent with ss. 7 , 9 , 11 (d) and 11 (e) of the Charter.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Lynne Palmer

v. (27574)

Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(Sask.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Practising medicine without licence - Whether the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal erred in applying ss. 21(1) , (2) , 465(1) (b), 137 , 134 , 136 , 139 , 131 , 132 , 140 , 786(2)  and 361  of the Criminal Code  - Whether the Court of Appeal did not recognize there was no defence submitted by the accused’s lawyer.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Glengarry Bingo Association

v. (27166)

Her Majesty the Queen (F.C.A.)(Alta.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Taxation - Agency - Goods and services tax - Applicant bingo association conducting bingo games for its members which are registered and non-registered charities - Whether, pursuant to section 178  of the Excise Tax Act , R.S.C., 1985, c. E-15 , as amended by S.C. 1990, c. 45, the Applicant is exempt from collecting and remitting GST for services and equipment supplied to its members.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM:   L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ. /

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache et LeBel

Rosario Bernier, Ferme Mailloux et Fils, Ferme Bessette & Frères Waterville inc.,

 Le Regroupement provincial pour le maintien des droits des producteurs de lait inc.

c. (27416)

Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québec et

La Régie des marchés agricoles et alimentaires du Québec (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit administratif - Contrôle judiciaire - Législation - Textes réglementaires - Interprétation - La Régie des marchés agricoles et alimentaires du Québec exerçait-elle des fonctions quasi judiciaires lorsqu’elle a rendu ses décisions modifiant et approuvant les règlements soumis par la Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québec? - L’apparence de partialité causée par les actes du président de la Régie justifiait-elle l’annulation des décisions rendues par la Régie? - La Régie a-t-elle commis des erreurs manifestement déraisonnables en décidant que les règlements ne portaient pas atteinte aux droits acquis des demandeurs et en confirmant la validité du référendum tenu pour l’approbation des règlements?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Fraternité des préposés à l'entretien des voies

c. (27434)

Canadien Pacifique Limitée

-et-

Michel Picher, arbitre pour le Bureau

d’arbitrage des chemins de fer du Canada (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail - Convention collective - Interprétation -  Contrôle judiciaire - Décision d’un arbitre nommé en vertu d’une convention collective -  Erreur manifestement déraisonnable - Plainte pour traitement injuste - Clause ouverte.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Union québécoise pour la conservation de la nature

c. (27421)

Jacques Brassard en sa qualité de ministre des Transports

-et-

Paul Bégin en sa qualité de ministre de l’Environment et de la Faune,

Procureur général du Québec et Bernard Gauthier (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit de l’environnement - Droit administratif - Admission d’une nouvelle preuve - Études de l’impact sur l’environnement d’un projet de construction d’une voie routière - Pouvoir discrétionnaire du Ministre du Transport.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

CORAM:   Gonthier, Binnie and Arbour JJ. /

Les juges Gonthier, Binnie et Arbour

J.H.

v. (27670)

Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal Law - Young Offenders - Right to Counsel -  Young Offenders Act  permits an order to appoint counsel if a young person is unable to obtain counsel - Accused before Youth Court was denied legal aid and applied for an order appointing counsel claiming she was unable to obtain counsel - Whether Youth Court is required to conduct a hearing into the youth’s ability to obtain counsel before granting order - Whether hearing should consider a young person's  ability to access the financial  resources of his or her parents -  Meaning of “unable to” in s. 11(4) (b) of the Young Offenders Act , R.S.C. 1985, c. Y‑1 .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Marcia Robertson

v. (27514)

The Ontario Human Rights Commission and  Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Extension of time to apply for leave to appeal - Whether the Court of Appeal correctly denied the extension of time.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Crestwood Lake Limited, Percy St. Pierre and Margaret St. Pierre

v. (27462)

Robert Pizzey, Marc E. Lefebvre and Robert Owen Pizzey, Executors of the Estate of Mabel Pizzey, deceased, Glenn Pizzey and Cameron Pizzey (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property law - Real property - Breach of contract - Damages - Purchaser of trailer park obtaining fewer potential sites than he believed he was purchasing - Vendor ordered to pay purchaser damages for breach of contract - Court ordering that damages to which purchaser was entitled might be set off against balance overdue under mortgage back - Correct procedure for calculating amounts owing under mortgage back - Whether Court of Appeal should have corrected arithmetic error alleged by purchaser.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Gunnar Kjelstrup Madsen

v. (27473)

Her Majesty the Queen (F.C.A.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Taxation - Assessment - Income tax reduction scheme - Whether a court may deny a taxpayer the right to claim an expense deduction in computing his income (pursuant to s. 18(1)(a) of Act) on the ground that the taxpayer did not incur the expense for the purpose of earning income in circumstances where the earning of income is an absolute certainty and has resulted (or will result) directly from the expense being paid - Whether the trial judge erred when he concluded that the advance royalties and licence fees were not paid by the Applicant for the purpose of earning income within the meaning of s. 18(1) (a) of the Income Tax Act .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

MARCH 30, 2000 / LE 30 MARS 2000

27582                    HARRY CAVAN v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter  - Criminal - Evidence - Disclosure - Crown referred to fact of Applicants’ access to disclosure during cross-examination of accused and in closing address to jury - Whether the Crown can urge a jury to find that an accused has tailored his evidence to conform to the disclosure provided - Whether the drawing of such an adverse inference violates s. 7  of the Charter by undermining and creating a trap of the constitutional right to disclosure.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27587                    DOUGLAS SCOTT v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter  - Criminal - Evidence - Disclosure - Crown referred to fact of Applicants’ access to disclosure during cross-examination of accused and in closing address to jury - Whether the Crown can urge a jury to find that an accused has tailored his evidence to conform to the disclosure provided - Whether the drawing of such an adverse inference violates s. 7  of the Charter by undermining and creating a trap of the constitutional right to disclosure.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

December 14, 1999

Supreme Court of Canada

Applications for leave to appeal filed

27195                    JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Sask.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal Law - Procedural Law - Appeals - Competence of counsel - Standards for assessing competence of counsel as a grounds for appeal - Whether appellate review guidelines of the right to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel under ss. 7  and 11 (d) of the Charter are dramatically divergent from province to province.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

26669                    DARRELL BRERTTON v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN - AND BETWEEN - CAMERON CARDINAL v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN - AND BETWEEN - SAMUEL LORNE BULL JR. v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Alta.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal  Law ‑ Treaty rights to hunt under Treaty No. 6 - Whether the courts below erred with respect to the visible, incompatible use of land test set out in R. v. Badger, [1996] 1 S.C.R. 771 - Whether the test for “right of access” in R. v. Sutherland,  [1980] 2 S.C.R. 451 applied.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27358                    DENNIS GORDON v. WINNIPEG CANOE CLUB, LESLEY BAIZLEY, GERALD STEVENS, JANE DELEEUW, AND SHERMAN HARMON AND WILLIAM J.C. STEWART (Man.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property law - Trusts and trustees - Constructive trust - Insurance proceeds - Canoe Club depositing insurance proceeds from theft of Applicant’s tractor in its general account - Deposit reducing amount owing under Club’s line of credit - Club found liable for breach of a constructive trust - Whether Club’s general manager or officers liable for Club’s breach of trust - Circumstances, if any, in which liability ought to be imposed on a stranger to a trust for breach of a constructive trust.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27389                    ELIZABETH MARION STONE AS REPRESENTATIVE OF A CLASS OF PERSONS  v. THE WELLINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF ONTARIO (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The motion for extension of time is dismissed.  The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande de prorogation de délai est rejetée.  La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Actions - Civil Procedure - Pre-trial procedure - Class actions - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in applying the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure to the proposed class proceeding herein as if it were “any action”, without due regard to the essential representative nature of class proceedings - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in determining the appropriateness of the proposed representative plaintiff in isolation from, and prior to, the plaintiff’s motion for certification - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in determining that the proposed representative could not be said to be a member of the proposed class on the basis that she was barred from recovering against but two of several defendants - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in disposing of the action brought on behalf of a class of persons on the basis of a legal defence particular to the individual commencing the proposed class proceeding and certain of the defendants only.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27351                    VIGI SANTÉ LTÉE, HÔPITAL STE-MONIQUE INC., CENTRE LE CARDINAL INC., GROUPE CHAMPLAIN INC. - c. - PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU QUÉBEC - et - CURATEUR PUBLIC DU QUÉBEC (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache et LeBel.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit administratif - Centres d’hébergement et de soins de longues durées (C.H.S.L.D.) - Services de santé et services sociaux - Lavage et entretien du linge personnel des usagers à titre gratuit - Convention de financement - Jugement déclaratoire - Est-ce qu’en vertu de la convention de financement signée avec le ministre en 1994, les établissements privés conventionnés ont convenu de fournir à titre gratuit le service de lavage et d’entretien normal de la lingerie personnelle et des vêtements personnels des usagers?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27642                    BYRON LESLIE DERKSEN and KERRY BEGRAND-FAST - v. - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(Sask.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal Law - Pretrial procedure - Indictments - Preliminary inquiries - Following a preliminary inquiry, crown counsel withdrew a joint indictment against two accused and replaced it with two separate indictments - Whether Crown counsel may unilaterally change an indictment after a pretrial conference has been held pursuant to s. 625.1(2)  of the Criminal Code , R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46 , as amended?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27589                    ANTONIO FLAMAND - c. - SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache et LeBel.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Abus de confiance - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en refusant de statuer que la «voix au chapitre» était un élément essentiel du crime d’abus de confiance prévu à l’article 122  C.cr .? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit en concluant que le verdict de culpabilité prononcé contre le demandeur par le juge du procès n’était pas déraisonnable au sens du sous-al. 686 (1) a)(i) C.cr .?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27537                    CADILLAC FAIRVIEW CORPORATION LIMITED - v. - SASKATCHEWAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (Sask.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The motion for extension of time is granted and the application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande de prorogation de délai est accordée et la demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

 Labour law - Statutes - Interpretation - Collective agreement - Arbitrator given power to determine issues pursuant to collective agreement by terms of that agreement and The Trade Union Act, R.S.S. 1978, c. T-17 - Board of Inquiry given power to determine issues pursuant to The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, S.S. 1979, c. S-24.1 - Whether the jurisdiction of a statutory administrative tribunal is ousted by the mandatory arbitration procedures of trade union legislation - Whether the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan erred in allowing the appeal and in remitting the matter back to the Board of Inquiry.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27355                    DOMINION BRIDGE INC. - v. - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, SASKATCHEWAN AS REPRESENTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF LABOUR STANDARDS BRANCH, JAMES ROUTLEDGE and DAREN KELLER (Sask.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Labour law - Statutes - Interpretation - Collective agreement - Arbitrator given power to determine issues pursuant to collective agreement by terms of that agreement and Trade Union Act, R.S.S. 1978, c. T-17 - Adjudicator given power to determine issues pursuant to The Labour Standards Act, R.S.S. 1978, c. L-1 - Whether St Anne-Nackawic Pulp and Paper C. v. Canadian Paper Workers Union, Local 219, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 704 and Weber v. Ontario Hydro, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 967, apply to determine which body has jurisdiction - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in deciding that adjudicators should determine if the benefits offered to workers pursuant to their collective agreements are consistent with The Labour Standards Act.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27369                    COMMISSION SCOLAIRE D’IBERVILLE - c. - SYNDICAT DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT DU HAUT-RICHELIEU - et - Me LISE TOUSIGNANT, Me GILLES POULIOT, M. JEAN-PAUL BERNARD, PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL DU QUÉBEC (Qué.)

CORAM:               Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache et LeBel.

La demande de prorogation de délai est accordée et la demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

The motion for extension of time is granted and the application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail - Droit administratif - Arbitrage - Convention collective - Contrôle judiciaire - Compétence - Un arbitre a-t-il la juridiction d’interpréter une loi qui ne confère aucun droit additionnel alors qu’il est d’avis que le grief dont il est saisi devrait être rejeté en regard des dispositions de la convention collective? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en droit et dénaturé l’intention du législateur en considérant conforme à la loi la décision de l’arbitre de permettre le rachat d’années de service antérieur par l’utilisation des congés-maladie non monnayables? - Art. 17 de la Loi sur le régime de retraite de certains enseignants, L.R.Q., ch. R-9.1.

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

27354                    DAVID K. MORRIS - v. - THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA (F.C.A.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Labour law - Unemployment Insurance - Administrative law - Judicial review - Natural Justice - Procedural law - Evidence - Hearsay - Cross-examination - Whether the principles of natural justice are denied to unemployment insurance claimants in that the Board regularly relies on hearsay evidence or third party written accounts of the Commission’s Insurance Officers with no opportunity for the claimants to cross-examine or otherwise contest the validity of such evidence - Whether there are conflicting decisions of the Federal Court that require resolution on the application of the principles of natural justice to hearings involving allegations of misconduct by an employee.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

September 17, 1996

Board of Referees

(Martin, Bates, Sabina [dissenting])

Applicant’s appeal from decision of the Commission dismissed: Applicant disqualified from receiving benefits

March 26, 1998

(Hollingworth Umpire)

Applicant’s appeal allowed; matter remitted to the Commission

27522                    EDWARD DEL GRANDE - v. - THE TORONTO DOMINION BANK (Ont.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Courts - Judgments and orders - Commercial law - Banks/banking operations - Bank loaning money to commercial group holding real estate - Economic downturn causing land to be unsaleable - Bank not advising against purchase or recommending sale - Bank suing for outstanding loan - Whether palpable and overriding error in trial judge’s findings of fact.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

APRIL 6, 2000 / LE 6 AVRIL 2000

27184                    PAUL MACPHERSON, GEORGE EWING AND JOHN STUART MCKENZIE v. ADGA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC. (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Pre-trial procedure - Summary judgment - Commercial law - Company law - Personal liability of corporate director and employees - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing motion for summary judgment - Whether individual officers, directors and senior employees of a corporation should be made personally liable in respect of acts done in the course of their duties as such to the corporation and not in their personal capacities, where the acts in question are integral to the core competitive business activities of the corporation and are alleged to cause economic loss to a competitor.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27571                    DAVID BLOOM, ARTHUR KONVISER AND GLORIA ANDERSON v. MEDITRUST HEALTHCARE INC. - and between - RUTH MALLON v. MEDITRUST HEALTHCARE INC. - and between - SAM HIRSCH v. MEDITRUST HEALTHCARE INC. - and between - LEROY FEVANG v. MEDITRUST HEALTHCARE INC. (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The applications for leave to appeal are dismissed with costs.

Les demandes d’autorisation d’appel sont rejetées avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Pre-trial procedure - Motion to strike - Commercial law - Company law - Personal liability of corporate directors, officers and employees - Whether the Court of Appeal applied the correct legal test to determine whether a plea of personal liability against officers, directors or employees of a corporation for conduct undertaken by them in their corporate capacities was sustainable.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27754                    JAMES T. MELVILLE v. NBD BANK, CANADA AND DEFASCO INC. - and between - DOFASCO INC. v. NBD BANK, CANADA AND JAMES T. MELVILLE (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The applications for leave to appeal are dismissed.

Les demandes d’autorisation d’appel sont rejetées.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Torts - Liability of employee officers for negligent misrepresentation - Statutes - Interpretation - Whether employee officers are personally liable for negligent misrepresentations made to parties who have voluntarily chosen to deal with a limited liability company - Whether the Applicants were acting in the best interests of their corporate employer - Whether policy reasons limit the Applicants’ liability - Whether a claim for negligent misrepresentation can succeed where the plaintiff fails to testify that he recalls the statements upon which he is found to have relied - Whether the lower courts imposed a positive duty of disclosure on the Applicants - Whether s. 8 of the Statute of Frauds, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.19 applies to a claim of negligent misrepresentation - Whether the corporate employer’s arrangement under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act , R.S.C. 1985, c. C-36 , affects the Applicants’ liability.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27357                    TOTAL LEISURE R.V. MANUFACTURING LTD. v. FREEBIRD HOLDINGS LTD. (Man.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed without costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée sans dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Property law - Creditor and debtor - Real property - Right of redemption - Judgment creditor proceeding to sell property of debtor in accordance with The Judgments Act,  R.S.M. c. J10 - Judgment debtor having sufficient funds to repay debt only after a master had authorized acceptance of an offer to purchase but before the approval was confirmed by the court - Whether a judgment debtor is pre-empted from redeeming its property once a master of the Court of Queen’s Bench has authorized the acceptance of an offer to purchase the property.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

December 8, 1998

Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba

(Master Ring)

Motion granted approving offer to purchase

December 16, 1998

Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba (Kennedy J.)

Appeal allowed; order of Master set aside

April 15, 1999

Court of Appeal of Manitoba

(Twaddle, Lyon, Monnin JJ.A.)

Appeal allowed; order of Master confirmed

June 14, 1999

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

27435                    ONTARIO POWER GENERATION INC. v. MINISTER OF REVENUE (Ont.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Taxation - Statutes - Interpretation - Assessment - Retail Sales Tax Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 454, s. 2(7) - Whether the interpretation of this statutory provision and other similar legislation involve an issue of public importance - Whether uncertainty has been created as a result of this decision - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in law.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27378                    CANADIAN MEDIA GUILD, LOCAL 30213 OF THE NEWSPAPER GUILD/COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (FORMERLY CANADIAN WIRE SERVICE GUILD, LOCAL 213 OF THE NEWSPAPER GUILD) AND DOUGLAS C. STANLEY v. CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (Nfld.)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - Labour Law - Arbitration - Arbitrator cited a “central core” test for determining proper classification of an employee between two grades of employment - Arbitrator held employee should be classified at higher grade based on performance of tasks associated with that grade - Employee performing tasks associated with higher grade on average five percent of her time - Whether arbitrator departed from the cited test and asked a wrong question - Whether asking the wrong question gave rise to ground for review or resulted in a patently unreasonable decision - Degree of deference due to arbitrator’s decision - Whether decision of arbitrator was not correct or patently unreasonable - Whether decision of a consensual arbitrator acting within his jurisdiction is immune from judicial review even if wrong or patently unreasonable - Whether test in the arbitral jurisprudence on reclassification is a rigid formula with the authority of common law.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27572                    TUAN VAN PHAM - v. - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Crim.)(B.C.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law -  Narcotics - Evidence - Best evidence rule - Applicant convicted of possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking - Court of Appeal upholding conviction - Whether Court of Appeal erred in holding that best evidence rule did not preclude admissibility of oral secondary evidence as to contents of certain documents and photographs - Whether Court of Appeal erred in upholding trial judge’s decision to admit oral secondary evidence because evidence was neither necessary nor reliable - Whether Court of Appeal erred in holding that evidence linking Applicant to third party was sufficient to establish Applicant’s control over narcotics in possession of third party.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27382                    RAJ AHLUWALIA - v. - THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF MANITOBA (Man.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Labour law - Physicians and surgeons -  Professional misconduct - Unfitness to practise medicine - Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons ordering Applicant’s name erased from College register - Court of Queen’s Bench upholding decision - Court of Appeal setting aside order of erasure and ordering six-month suspension - Whether superior court entitled to review disciplinary bodies' deliberations with same authority as it is entitled to review decision of a superior court judge - Whether inquiry panel hearing fairly conducted - Whether participation of College’s solicitor in hearing leads to appearance of bias which would invalidate any discipline imposed - Whether fact major participants in a citation concerning a professional are all associated with the professional association results in an apprehension of bias - Whether citizen’s reliance on solicitor-client privilege as ground for excluding evidence raises inference against citizen with respect to evidence for which privilege is claimed.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27403                    WILLIAM FREDERICK DAWES AND LORRAINE BEVERLY DAWES - v. - PETER EDWARD JAJCAJ AND BEVERLY LYNN SCHOUTEN (B.C.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Torts - Motor vehicles - Damages - Spoliation - Doctrine of spoliation has not been considered by this Court since the case of St. Louis v. The Queen, [1895] 25 S.C.R. 649 - Whether the state of the law, as a result of this appellate decision, will probably result in significant injustice in other cases as well as this case - Whether the Court of Appeal misapprehended its duty with respect to appeals based upon an argument of palpable and overriding error.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

27377                    CANADA POST CORPORATION - v. - CANADIAN POSTMASTERS AND ASSISTANTS ASSOCIATION (F.C.A.)

CORAM:               L’Heureux-Dubé, Bastarache and LeBel JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs.