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June 15, 2001  1082 - 1125                                                                  le 15 juin 2001

CONTENTS                                                   TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Schneider National Carriers Limited and Michael Magoon

Scott Norton

McInnes Cooper

v. (28626)

Robert Lloyd Fowler, et al. (N.S.)

W. Dale Dunlop

Walker Dunlop

FILING DATE 31.5.2001

Regent Millette

Regent Millette

c. (28627)

Revenu du Canada (C.F.)

Claude Bernard

A.G. of Canada

DATE DE PRODUCTION 1.6.2001

Lilydale Co-operative Limited

Ronald R. Nelson

Brownlee Fryett

v. (28633)

FFM Holdings Ltd., et al. (Alta.)

Terry L. Czechowskyj

Miles Davison McCarthy

FILING DATE 4.6.2001

2774880 Manitoba Ltd.

Richard W. Schwartz

Scurfield Tapper Cuddy

v. (28631)

Superior Management Ltd., et al. (Man.)

J. Michael J. Dow

Fillmore Riley

FILING DATE 4.6.2001

Jerry Van Unen

Craig Paterson

Paterson & Associates

v. (28630)

Workers’ Compensation Board (B.C.)

Dana Neilson

Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia

FILING DATE 5.6.2001

Law Society of New Brunswick

J.C. Marc Richard

Barry Spalding Richard

v. (28639)

Michael A.A. Ryan (N.B.)

Ray W. Dixon, Q.C.

Allen Dixon Smith Townsend

FILING DATE 4.6.2001

Her Majesty the Queen

Goran Tomljanovic

A.G. of Alberta

v. (28638)

Michael Donald Dahl (Alta.)

Alexander D. Pringle, Q.C.

Pringle & Associates

FILING DATE 6.6.2001

Settimio Provenzano

Settimio Provenzano

v. (28636)

Salvator Borraccia, et al. (Ont.)

Ian S. Epstein

Blaney, McMurtry, Stapells, Friedman

FILING DATE 7.6.2001

Nelson Duncan McLennan and Sylvia Jean Longley as Executors and Trustees under the last Will and Testament of John F. McLennan, deceased

Frank E. Walwyn

Weir Foulds

v. (28637)

The TDL Group Ltd., et al. (Ont.)

Maureen L. Whelton

Teplitsky, Colson

FILING DATE 7.6.2001

Petro-Canada

Richard R.E. DeFilippi

Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang

v. (28608)

The Corporation of the District of North Vancouver (B.C.)

Grant Anderson

Lidstone, Young, Anderson

FILING DATE 8.6.2001

Dubord Construction Inc. et Raoul Dubord

Alain-Claude Desforges

Bélanger Sauvé

c. (28641)

Société de Fiducie de la Banque Hong-Kong

(Qué.)

André Rivest

Gowling, Lafleur, Henderson

DATE DE PRODUCTION 11.6.2001

Ernest Lionel Joseph Blais

Lionel Chartrand

Aboriginal Centre Law Office

v. (28645)

Her Majesty the Queen (Man.)

Holly D. Penner

A.G. of Manitoba

FILING DATE 7.6.2001

Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Stan Guenther

Rush Crane Guenther

v. (28642)

Canada Post Corporation (B.C.)

Thora Sigurdson

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin

FILING DATE 8.6.2001

Constance St-Hilaire

Suzy-Guylaine Gagnon

Rochon, Belzile, Carrier, Auger & Associés

c. (28643)

Le procureur général du Canada, et al. (C.F.)

René LeBlanc

Procureur général du Canada

DATE DE PRODUCTION 8.6.2001

Tri-M Systems Inc.

Ron A. Skolrood

Lawson Lundell Lawson & McIntosh

v. (28646)

Her Majesty the Queen (B.C.)

Nils Bo Jensen

A.G. of British Columbia

FILING DATE 8.6.2001

J.S. McMillan Fisheries Ltd.

Murray L. Smith

Campney & Murphy

v.  (28648)

The owners and all others interested in the Ship “Qualicum Producer”, et al. (B.C.)

Nils E. Daugulis

Bull Housser & Tupper

FILING DATE 8.6.2001

The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

Urszula Kaczmarczyk

A.G. of Canada

v. (28647)

Hoang Van Chu (F.C.)

Darryl Larson

Larson Boulton Sohn Stockholder

FILING DATE 11.6.2001

JUNE 11, 2001 / LE 11 JUIN 2001

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

Le juge en chef McLachlin et les juges Iacobucci et Bastarache

James Sapara

v. (28583)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal law - Trial within a reasonable time -  Whether delays caused by a co-accused’s failure to properly instruct and retain counsel are neutral delays

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

John Susin

v. (28401)

Ronald G. Chapman, Joan Mary Johnston, the Executor of the Estate of Johnston, Deceased, and Avrich (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Rules of Civil Procedure - Security for costs - Court of Appeal affirmed orders granting  motions to dismiss action and dismissing motion to reduce security for costs to zero -  Plaintiff found not to be impecunious - Claim found to have no merit - Whether judicial discretion exercised properly in awarding security for costs and dismissing action under Rules of Civil Procedure.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

August 18, 1994

Ontario Court (General Division)

(Zelinski J.)

Order requiring Applicant to pay $10,000

interim security for costs

September 9, 1994

Ontario Court (General Division)

(Matlow J.)

Applicant’s motion to set aside order of  

Zelinski J. dismissed

December 8, 1994

Ontario Court (General Division)

(O’Brien J.)

Applicant’s motion for leave to appeal order of Matlow J. dismissed

January 25, 1995

Ontario Court (General Division)

(Hoilett J.)

Applicant’s motion to set aside orders of

Zelinski J., Matlow J. and O’Brien J. dismissed

June 18, 1995

Ontario Court of Appeal

(Brooke J.A.)

Applicant’s motion to extend time to appeal

seven order of Ontario Court (General Division) dismissed

June 21, 1995

Ontario Court of Appeal

(Catzman, Carthy and Laskin JJ.A.)

Applicant’s appeal of Hoilett J’s order

quashed

May 6, 1997

Ontario Cour (General Division)

(Dunn J.)

Order extending time for Applicant to pay

security for costs, failing which action would be dismissed without notice

June 18, 1998

Ontario Court of Appeal

McKinlay, Rosenberg and Gouge JJ.A.)

Applicant’s appeal of Dunn J’s order dismissed.  Held: order was interlocutory; leave should have been sought from the Divisional Court

David Albert Siemens, Eloisa Ester Siemens and Sie‐Cor Properties Inc. o/a The Winkler Inn

v. (28416)

The Attorney General of Manitoba and The Government of Manitoba (Man.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter  - Constitutional law - Division of powers - Statutes - Interpretation -Whether Gaming Control Local Option (VLT) Act within jurisdiction of Legislature pursuant to s. 92  of the Constitution Act, 1867  - Whether Act violates ss. 2(b) , 7  or 15  of the Charter 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Visual Education Centre Limited and Active Intermedia, Inc.

v. (28484)

Stuart Grant, Randi Grant and Steven Sweigman (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial Law - Contracts - Interpretation - Arbitration Clauses - Whether parties have an inherent right to have disputes determined by a court of competent jurisdiction rather than by arbitration in the absence of a specific and unequivocal agreement to refer the particular dispute to arbitration - Whether courts should broadly interpret and expand the scope of arbitration clauses with the result that parties are forced to arbitrate issues which were not contemplated nor contracted to be resolved by way of arbitration - Whether Court of Appeal’s  decision runs contrary to the existing authority and established practice.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

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

Les juges L’Heureux-Dubé, Arbour et LeBel

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

v. (28246)

Wilbert Colin Thatcher and The Attorney General of Saskatchewan (Sask.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Broadcasting - Application by electronic media to access and broadcast proceedings denied - Whether denial of electronic access to court proceedings constitutes infringement of media’s s. 2(b)  Charter  rights.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Claudette Sicotte

c. (28279)

Zurich du Canada Compagnie d'assurance‐vie (Qué.)

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Code civil - Droit commercial - Assurance - Interprétation - déclarations mensongères - fraude - Quelle est la nature du fardeau de preuve de la fraude en vertu de l’article 2515 C.c.B.-C.? - Le juge de première instance a-t-il erré en droit en concluant que les déclarations de l’assuré étaient frauduleuses?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Camillo Fresco

v. (28164)

The City of Montreal (Que.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Municipal Law – Subordinate legislation – Zoning by-laws – Licencing of bars – Application for a permit to operate a bar with erotic performances – Alleged acquired rights – Commercial activities interrupted after revocation of liquor permit by the provincial licensing board – Whether the requirement of “high level of diligence” applies – Whether the municipal zoning by-laws conform to the enabling legislation – Charter of the City of Montreal., S.Q. 1959/1960, c. 102, s. 524 (as amended) – Règlement d’urbanisme de la Ville de Montréal, 94-077, s. 665.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

ADI Limited

v. (28404)

052987 N.B. Inc., Ronald Robinson, Heather Robinson and Hitchman Surveys (1987) Ltd. (N.B.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Company law - Remedies - Procedural law - Appeal - Evidence - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in failing to impose liability on the Respondents pursuant to sections 166(2)(c) and 166(3)(j) of the Business Corporations Act S.N.B. 1981, c.B-9.1 - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in law by interfering with the conclusions of the trial judge that involved a negative finding of credibility against a Respondent.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

February 5, 2001

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

Constance Clara Fogal and The Defense of Canadian Liberty Committee/Le Comité de la Liberté Canadienne

v. (28579)

Attorney General of Canada, Attorney General of Québec, City of Québec and Ste‐Foy and Police Services for the City of Québec (Que.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Freedom of expression - Freedom of assembly - Application for an interlocutory injunction - Whether the learned motions judge erred in deciding that actions of police officers, invoking the residual common law duty to keep the peace, can constitute a limit “prescribed by law” - Whether the learned motions judge erred in applying the test for an interlocutory injunction set out in RJR - MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R 311?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

CORAM:   Gonthier, Major and Binnie JJ. /

Les juges Gonthier, Major et Binnie

Donna Lawrence

v. (28572)

Her Majesty the Queen (Crim.)(N.S.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Criminal - Procedural law - Right to counsel -  Right to know full extent of legal jeopardy - Courts - Whether test for partiality applicable to cases where it is argued that trial fairness has been compromised by juror bias at the outset of the trial - Whether presiding judge has jurisdiction to declare a mistrial, on the basis of juror bias, once the jury has rendered a guilty verdict but before the judge has given sentence - Whether lost evidence pertinent and crucial - Whether breach of right to counsel at the time of arrest on the basis that the person did not know the full extent of her legal jeopardy is never of “no affect” as claimed by the Court of Appeal.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

July 1, 1999

Supreme Court of Nova Scotia

(MacDonald J.)

Applicant convicted by jury of criminal negligence causing death, impaired driving causing death, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, and impaired driving causing bodily harm, respectively contrary to s. 220 ,  255(3) , 221 , and 255(2)  of the Criminal Code 

Patrick David Campbell Lees

v. (28499)

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Defence - Provocation - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in upholding the ruling of the trial judge that a wrongful act or insult which could cause the ordinary person to be deprived of self-control, as opposed to a wrongful act or insult which would cause the ordinary person to be deprived of self control, is not sufficient to meet the threshold test for the availability of the provocation defence under s. 232  of the Criminal Code .

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

June 1, 1999

Supreme Court of British Columbia

(Quijano J.)

Conviction: guilty of second degree murder

February 9, 2001

Court of Appeal for British Columbia

(Newbury, Braidwood and Hall JJ.A.)

Appeal dismissed

April 5, 2001

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

May 15, 2001

Supreme Court of Canada

Motion to extend time granted

934169 Ontario Limited, 673880 Ontario Limited, Gaetano Lucchese and Michael Feldman

v. (28409)

John Biggerstaff, Lynda Biggerstaff, Michael Bourrie, Christine Bourrie, Gina Brunetta, Luigi Bruno, Maria Bruno, Loris Dotto, Maria Dotto, John Flammia, Mary Flammia, Peter Hoffmeister, Gwendolyn Hoffmeister, Edi Kacin, Angela Kacin, Robert Lewis, Anna Lewis, Anthony Marziano, Silvana Pilieci‐Marziano, Alberto Massone, Gabriella Massone, Angelo Molignano, Janine Molignano, Jaroslaw Piekos, Lucyna Piekos, Michael Pollard, Kirsty Pollard, Eric Randell, Nathalie Randell, Robert Tym, Brenda Tym, Patrick Walker and Patricia Walker and Robert Brunetta

- and -

Charles M. Loopstra (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Pre-trial procedure - Torts - Negligence - Negligent misrepresentation - Barristers and solicitors - Removal of solicitors of record - Whether litigant entitled to an order removing opposing counsel from the record when it is alleged by that litigant that the opposing counsel’s words, actions and conduct on behalf of his clients resulted in a settlement of the dispute between the litigants prior to litigation, which dispute is now the basis for the action - Whether solicitor can be liable to an opposing litigant for negligent representations made during the course of settlement negotiations - Whether solicitor’s conduct, quite apart from or, alternatively, taken together with his words can give rise to an implied negligent representation.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

February 9, 2001

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

The Minister of Labour for Ontario

v. (28396)

Canadian Union of Public Employees, Service Employees International Union (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative Law - Judicial Review - New process adopted to select Chairs of arbitration boards pursuant to Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.14 - Minister of Labour appoints retired judges not listed on a roster of interest arbitrators compiled under the Labour Relations Act, S.O. 1995, c. 1, Sch. A - Respondents object to appointments - Respondents object to selection process and alleged abandonment of roster - Whether Court of Appeal obscured the distinction between review of ministerial discretion for procedural fairness and review of the purpose of the exercise of a ministerial discretion - Whether Court of Appeal substantially extended law with respect to when institutional independence becomes an issue - Whether Court of Appeal established new prerequisites for institutional independence - Whether appointments are statutorily authorized and cannot be attacked as a violation of procedural fairness - Whether retired judges are more independent than arbitrators - Whether Court of Appeal failed to apply perspective of a reasonable and informed person - Whether Court of Appeal  failed to decide what test for bias should apply - Whether Court of Appeal significantly changed law with respect to legitimate expectations - Whether Court of Appeal made a number of errors with respect to undisputed facts - Whether Court of Appeal’s prohibition against Minister exercising his discretion amounts to judicial amendment of statute.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Alan H. Coles

v. (28264)

Canam Enterprises Inc., CB Commercial Real Estate Group Canada Inc., Kevin W. Leon and Peter D. Senst (Ont.)

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Courts - Issue estoppel - Abuse of process -  Mutuality requirement for issue estoppel - Scope of doctrine of abuse of process - Right to seek contribution and indemnity under the Negligence Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. N.1 - Definition of privy.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

JUNE 11, 2001 / LE 11 JUIN 2001

CORAM:           Gonthier, Major and Binnie JJ.

John Guy Bradford

    v.  (28474)

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

Marie Henein, for the applicant.

Laura Hodgson, for the respondent.

DISMISSED / REJETÉE

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Criminal law - Complainant’s signed statement lost - Applicant alleging breach of right to make full answer and defence under s. 7  of Charter  - Stay of charges overturned and new trial ordered - Abuse of process - Appropriate remedy for negligent loss of evidence - Did Court of Appeal err in substituting its own findings for those of trial judge?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

March 28, 2000

Superior Court of Justice

(Borkovich J.)

Stay: charges of indecent assault and sexual assault

March 20, 2001

Supreme Court of Canada

Application for leave to appeal filed

JUNE 14, 2001 / LE 14 JUIN 2001

28155                    THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS ‐ v. ‐ THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (FC) (Civil)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is granted.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Property Law - Patentability of complex life forms - Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in law in holding that claims 1 to 12 in the patent application at issue amount to a “composition of matter” within the meaning of the term “invention” as defined in section 2 of the Patent Act - Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in law in holding that claims 1 to 12 amount to an “invention” under s. 2 of the Patent Act - Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in law in holding that the Respondent is entitled to a patent for the entire “non-human mammal” described in claims 1 to 12, even though the presence of an oncogene is the only aspect of the animal for which the Respondent is responsible - Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in law in holding that the applicable standard of review was not satisfied in this case.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28370                    RUTH A. LASEUR ‐ v. ‐ WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD OF NOVA SCOTIA, NOVA SCOTIA WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS TRIBUNAL AND ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NOVA SCOTIA (N.S.) (Civil)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is granted.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Administrative Tribunals - Authority to apply the Charter  - Equality Rights - Workers’ Compensation - Whether the Worker’s Compensation Appeals Tribunal of Nova Scotia has the authority to refuse on Charter  grounds to apply benefits provisions of its enabling statute - Whether the chronic pain provisions of the Worker’s Compensation Act, S.N.S. 1994-95, c.10, and the Functional Restoration (Multi-Faceted Pain Services) Program Regulations, N.S. Reg.57/96 infringe the equality rights guaranteed under section 15 (1)  of the Charter ? - Whether the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal erred in  upholding the Nova Scotia Workers’ Compensation Board’s policies which exclude chronic pain as a category of compensable injury?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28372                    DONALD MARTIN ‐ v. ‐ WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD OF NOVA SCOTIA, NOVA SCOTIA WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS TRIBUNAL AND ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NOVA SCOTIA (N.S.) (Civil)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is granted.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Administrative Tribunals - Authority to apply the Charter  - Equality Rights - Workers’ Compensation - Whether the Worker’s Compensation Appeals Tribunal of Nova Scotia has the authority to refuse on Charter  grounds to apply benefits provisions of its enabling statute - Whether the chronic pain provisions of the Worker’s Compensation Act, S.N.S. 1994-95, c.10, and the Functional Restoration (Multi-Faceted Pain Services) Program Regulations, N.S. Reg.57/96 infringe the equality rights guaranteed under section 15 (1)  of the Charter ? - Whether the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal erred in  upholding the Nova Scotia Workers’ Compensation Board’s policies which exclude chronic pain as a category of compensable injury?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28457                    HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN ‐ v. ‐ MINH KHUAN MAC (Ont.) (Criminal)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is granted.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal Law - Offences - Forgery - Statutory Interpretation - Whether the Court of Appeal for Ontario erred in law in its interpretation of the word “adapted” contained in s. 369 (b) of the Criminal Code  - Criminal Code , R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, s. 369 (b)

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28427                    RENÉ PEARSON ‐ c. ‐ SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE (Qué.) (Criminelle)

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges  Iacobucci et Bastarache

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit criminel - Détermination de la peine - Législation - Interprétation -  Le demandeur a-t-il déjà été puni pour les faits au soutien de l’accusation de possession d’argent provenant d’une infraction de criminalité organisée -  La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur de droit dans l’interprétation des paragraphes 725(1)  et (2)  du Code criminel  - La Cour d’appel du Québec a-t-elle commis une erreur de droit dans l’interprétation de l’alinéa 718.2(iv)a).

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

28329                    442246 B.C. AND CENTRAL CITY FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD. ‐ v. ‐ LAWRENCE T. SALLOUM AND SALLOUM DOAK (B.C.) (Civil)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs to the respondents Lawrence T. Salloum and Salloum Doak.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en faveur des intimés Lawrence T. Salloum et Salloum Doak.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Damages - Purchase of a gas station - Solicitor acting for both parties - Solicitor acted negligently and in breach of fiduciary duty -  Where a lawyer is in breach of his fiduciary duty to his client and, later, on the same transaction, commits a further breach of fiduciary duty or an act of negligence, is the client entitled to full recovery based on the breach of fiduciary duty or is the client’s recovery restricted to damages for the negligent act only? - What is the appropriate basis for determining the measure of damages?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28435                    S.L. ‐ c. ‐ S.D.  (Qué.) (Civile)

CORAM:               Le Juge en chef et les juges  Iacobucci et Bastarache

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit de la famille - Aliments - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en faits et en droit en ce qui a trait aux obligations d’un époux envers l’autre ainsi que dans son application des articles 15.2(6)  et 16(10)  de la Loi sur le Divorce , L.R.C. (1985), ch 3 (2e Suppl .) en n’ordonnant pas à l’intimée de payer une quelconque indemnisation, remboursement ou dépens au demandeur pour celui-ci ou pour ses enfants et ce malgré la dépendance économique du demandeur? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en omettant d’appliquer les principes jurisprudentiels faisant autorité relativement au maintient des conjoints désavantagés par un handicap?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

28529                    BRYAN LATHAM ‐ v. ‐ HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Ont.) (Criminal)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for extension of time is dismissed with costs. The application for leave to appeal would have been dismissed if the application for extension of time had been granted.

La demande de prorogation de délai est rejetée avec dépens. La demande d’autorisation d’appel aurait été rejetée, même si la demande de prorogation avait été accordée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Jurisdiction - Habeas corpus - Ontario courts holding that Federal Court had jurisdiction to deal with application for writ - Whether Dumas v. Leclerc Institution, [1986] 2 S.C.R. 459 is determinative of the jurisdictional issue.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28324                    STEFAN WANCZYK AND THOMAS J. CARTER ‐ v. ‐ JULIA FRARESSO (B.C.) (Civil)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs to the respondent Julia Fraresso.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en faveur de l’intimée Julia Fraresso.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Commercial law - Contracts - Options - Whether the appropriate test for determining whether a unilateral option has been properly exercised is the contemporary mutual intentions of the parties or whether there has been strict compliance with the terms of the option.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28296                    JOSEPH MEAGHER ‐ v. ‐ THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (B.C.) (Civil)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs to the respondent The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en faveur de l’intimé The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.

This file has been sealed by order of Gonthier J. dated January 18, 2001 (see Bulletin dated January 26, 2001).

La mise sous scellés du présent dossier a été ordonnée par le juge Gonthier le 18 janvier 2001 (voir Bulletin du 26 janvier 2001).

28140                    STEPHEN M. BYER ‐ v. ‐ THE BAR OF MONTREAL AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF QUEBEC (Que.) (Criminal)

CORAM:               The Chief Justice, Iacobucci and Bastarache JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with no order as to costs.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée, sans ordonnance concernant les dépens.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Constitutional law - Division of Powers - Jurisdiction - Application for a writ of prohibition -  Whether the Court of Quebec has ratione materiae jurisdiction adjudicate upon matters which are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Court - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing the Applicant’s appeal?

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28053                    TRANSPORT SCOLAIRE CHAUVEAU LTÉE ‐ c. ‐ LA PROCUREURE GÉNÉRALE DU QUÉBEC ET LA SOCIÉTÉ DE L'ASSURANCE AUTOMOBILE DU QUÉBEC  (Qué.) (Civile)

CORAM:               Les juges L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour et LeBel

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en faveur de l’intimée La Procureure générale du Québec.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs to the respondent The Attorney General of Quebec.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit administratif - Partialité - Est-ce qu’il y a crainte raisonnable de partialité à l’égard du juge de première instance du fait qu’il ait entendu un litige impliquant son ancien bureau? - Est-ce qu’il peut avoir partialité si la demanderesse a renoncé à invoquer ce moyen?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Le 23 avril 1999

Cour supérieure du Québec

(Rochette j.c.s.)

Action de la demanderesse rejetée

28111                    MÉDIS SERVICES PHARMACEUTIQUES ET DE SANTÉ INC. ‐ c. ‐ SYNDICATS DES SALARIÉS DE DISTRIBUTION DE PRODUITS PHARMACEUTIQUES (FISA) ET TEAMSTERS DU QUÉBEC, CHAUFFEURS ET OUVRIERS DE DIVERSES INDUSTRIES, LOCAL 69  (Qué.) (Civile)

CORAM:               Les juges L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour et LeBel

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

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed without costs.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail – Code du travail, L.R.Q., c. C-27, art. 39, 45 et 46 – La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré dans son interprétation de l’art. 39 du Code du travail? – Peut-il y avoir dans un même établissement deux conventions collectives et deux accréditations pour le même groupe de salariés? – Un commissaire du travail peut-il modifier la portée intentionnelle d’une accréditation syndicale? – La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en refusant de conclure qu’un commissaire du travail ne possède pas le pouvoir de modifier les droits et obligations contractuels découlant de conventions collectives?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

28112                    TEAMSTERS DU QUÉBEC, CHAUFFEURS ET OUVRIERS DE DIVERSES INDUSTRIES, LOCAL 69 ‐ c. ‐ SYNDICAT DES SALARIÉS DE DISTRIBUTION DE PRODUITS PHARMACEUTIQUES (FISA) ET MÉDIS, SERVICES PHARMACEUTIQUES ET DE SANTÉ INC. (Qué.) (Civile)

CORAM:               Les juges L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour et LeBel

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

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed without costs.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit du travail – Code du travail, L.R.Q., c. C-27, art. 39, 45 et 46 – La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré dans son interprétation de l’art. 39 du Code du travail? – Y a-t-il eu fermeture ou démantèlement de l’entreprise? – Les pouvoirs conférés au Commissaire du travail par la Cour d’appel trouvent-ils leur source dans l’article 39 du Code du travail? – L’article 39 du Code du travail permet-il de déclarer la cohabitation de deux unités d’accréditation pour des salariés exerçant les mêmes fonctions?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

28214                    TEMBEC INC. ‐ v. ‐ AMERICAN HOME ASSURANCE COMPANY, NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY AND COMMONWEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY (Que.) (Civil)

CORAM:               L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour 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

Commercial law - Insurance - Damages - All-risk insurance policy - Whether the trial judge and the Court of Appeal erred in denying indemnity to the Applicant under the terms of the all-risk insurance policy issued by the Respondents.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28351                    CONSTANCE CLARA FOGAL AND THE DEFENCE OF CANADIAN LIBERTY COMMITTEE / LE COMITÉ DE LA LIBERTÉ CANADIENNE ‐ v. ‐ HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA, SECRETARY OF STATE, THE MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SERGIO MARCHI, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JEAN CHRÉTIEN AND OTHER MEMBERS OF CABINET (FC) (Civil)

CORAM:               L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour and LeBel JJ.

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

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Administrative law - Judicial review - Procedural law - Mootness -  Respondents’ motion to dismiss Applicants’ application for judicial review for mootness granted - Federal Court of Appeal affirming decision - Whether Court of Appeal erred in creating new class of “non-moot” but “academic” or “hypothetical” constitutional issues which Federal Court had a “discretion” not to hear - Whether Court of Appeal erred in upholding motion judge’s decision that, notwithstanding that some of the issues were not moot, he was nonetheless not going to hear them.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

January 21, 1999

Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division

(Dubé J.)

Applicants’ motion for recusal dismissed

28432                    LA PROCUREURE GÉNÉRALE DU QUÉBEC ‐ c. ‐ FUTURE ÉLECTRONIQUE INC. ET ROBERT G. MILLER - et - SA MAJESTÉ LA REINE, LA PROCUREURE GÉNÉRALE DU CANADA, PIERRE-YVES CARRIER, GÉRARD BOSSÉ ET JAMES S. KENDALL  (Qué.) (Criminelle)

CORAM:               Les juges L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour et LeBel

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée.

The application for leave to appeal is granted.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Charte canadienne des droits et libertés  - Droit criminel - Fouilles, perquisitions et saisies - Traité d’entraide juridique en matière pénale entre le gouvernement du Canada et le gouvernement des États-Unis d’Amérique - Loi sur l’entraide juridique en matière criminelle, L.R.C. (1985), ch. C-30  - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle commis une erreur en droit quant à la norme de fiabilité des motifs requis en vertu de l’art. 8  de la Charte  pour la délivrance d’un mandat de perquisition lorsque ceux-ci sont obtenus d’une source connue et de surcroît dans le cadre d’une demande d’entraide juridique présentée par un État avec lequel le Canada a signé un traité?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

28203                    RONALD BIRON ‐ c. ‐ LÉVESQUE BEAUBIEN GEOFFRION INC. (Qué.) (Civile)

CORAM:               Les juges L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour et LeBel

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

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

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Responsabilité civile - Droit commercial - Lettres de change - Interprétation - Articles 136  et 137  de la Loi sur les lettres de change , L.R.C. 1985, ch B-4  - Les Bons du Trésor payables au porteur sont-ils régis par la Loi sur les lettres de change  ou par le droit civil québécois lors d’une transaction au Québec? - Les articles 136 et 137 de la Loi sur les lettres de change  s’appliquent-ils à un Bon du Trésor au porteur? - La règle res perit domino a-t-elle comme effet d’obliger l’intimée à assumer sa perte si, par ailleurs, son engagement envers la Banque du Canada l’oblige à rembourser la valeur des Bons du Trésor volés? - Le remboursement de l’intimée à la Banque du Canada donnait-il le droit à cette dernière de réclamer au demandeur les sommes ainsi remboursées alors que le demandeur n’était pas partie à l’entente entre la Banque et l’intimée? - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en modifiant le jugement de la Cour supérieure dans l’affaire des Bons pour 225 000$?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

Le 8 novembre 1994

Cour supérieure du Québec

(Bénard j.c.s.)

Action du demandeur rejetée avec dépens; Action de l’intimée contre le demandeur rejetée avec dépens

28216                    JACQUES BIRON ‐ c. ‐ LOUISE CHAMPOUX‐PAILLÉ, L'ORDRE DES ADMINISTRATEURS AGRÉÉS DU QUÉBEC, BOISVERT LANCTÔT POULIOT ET JOCELYN GALARNEAU  (Qué.) (Civile)

CORAM:               Les juges L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour et LeBel

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en cette Cour en faveur des intimés Louise Champoux‐Paillé et l'Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs in this Court to the respondents Louise Champoux‐Paillé and l'Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Procédure civile - Code civil - Article 55.1 du Code des professions, L.R.Q., c.C-26 - Preuve - La Cour d’appel a-t-elle erré en admettant un faux rapport de signification? -  Le juge de première instance a-t-il erré en concluant que le rapport de signification attaqué en faux “n’aura aucune influence sur l’action principale” sans s’être préoccupé du respect des droits fondamentaux du demandeur? - Le juge de première instance a-t-il erré en permettant que les intimés ne se ménagent pas la preuve écrite d’un acte juridique?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

28523                    ROBERT LARRY BOUVIER ‐ v. ‐ HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Sask.) (Criminal)

CORAM:               L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour and LeBel JJ.

The application for an extension of time is granted. The application for leave to appeal and the motion for a stay of execution are dismissed.

La demande de prorogation de délai est accordée. La demande d’autorisation d’appel ainsi que la requête en sursis d’exécution sont rejetées.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Criminal law - Offences - Whether trial judge erred in her determination of the elements of criminal negligence and in finding the elements had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt - Whether trial judge made a palpable, overriding error in finding that the accused had increased his speed in response to the requests of his passengers to slow down - Whether verdict of guilty was unreasonable or could not have been supported by the evidence.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

January 31, 2000

Court of Queen’s Bench of Saskatchewan

(Rothery J.)

Conviction: three counts of negligent operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm contrary to s.221  of the Criminal Code 

28455                    GORDON WAYNE PARIS ‐ v. ‐ HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Ont.) (Criminal)

CORAM:               L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour and LeBel JJ.

The application for an 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

Criminal law - Instructions to the jury - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in ruling that the trial judge’s instruction to the jury, based on Browne v. Dunn, was correct in law and caused no significant prejudice to the Applicant - Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that the trial judge, in his charge to the jury, adequately cured the Crown’s improper cross-examination and closing to the jury which had violated the Applicant’s right to silence.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

December 10, 1998

Ontario Court (General Division)

(MacKinnon J.)

Applicant convicted by jury of sexual assault and unlawful confinement

28342                    SYLVIE LEGAULT, ÈS QUALITÉS DE DÉLÉGUÉE DU DIRECTEUR DE LA PROTECTION DE LA JEUNESSE DES CENTRES JEUNESSE DE LANAUDIÈRE ‐ c. ‐ Y.B. et P.B.  (Qué.) (Civile)

CORAM:               Les juges L'Heureux‐Dubé, Arbour et LeBel

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en faveur de l’intimée Y.B.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs to the respondent Y.B.

NATURE DE LA CAUSE

Droit de la famille - Législation - Interprétation - L’article 79 de la Loi sur la protection de la jeunesse, L.R.Q. ch. P-34.1 - La procédure d’examen des mesures d’hébergement obligatoire provisoire prévue à la Loi sur la protection de la jeunesse est-elle soumise au respect des principes fondamentaux inscrits dans la  Charte canadienne des droits et libertés , (art. 7 ) la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne (art.1)et le Code civil du Québec?(art.3, 9, 33)? - Y a-t-il lieu d’appliquer les dispositions de l’art. 79 de la  Loi sur la protection de la jeunesse de manière à ne pas déroger aux principes énoncés ci-haut?

HISTORIQUE PROCÉDURAL

28353                    JACOB G. BOGATIN ‐ v. ‐ ROYAL TRUST CORPORATION OF CANADA, IN ITS CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE OF CC & L DEDICATED ENTERPRISE FUND, ROYAL TRUST CORPORATION OF CANADA, IN ITS CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE OF THE CC & L BALANCED CANADIAN EQUITY FUND, CONNOR CLARK & LUNN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LTD., AND THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ‐ and between ‐ JACOB G. BOGATIN ‐ v. ‐ ROGER MONDOR AND AMIT M. KARIA ‐ and between ‐ JACOB G. BOGATIN ‐ v. ‐ YBM MAGNEX INTERNATIONAL, INC., BY ITS RECEIVER AND MANAGER ERNST & YOUNG YBM INC. (Ont.) (Civil)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Major and Binnie JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs to Royal Trust Corporation of Canada, in its capacity as Trustee of CC & L Dedicated Enterprise Fund, Royal Trust Corporation of Canada, in its capacity as Trustee of the CC & L Balanced Canadian Equity Fund, Roger Mondor and Amit M. Karia.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en faveur de Royal Trust Corporation of Canada, ès qualités de fiduciaire de CC & L Dedicated Enterprise Fund, Royal Trust Corporation of Canada, ès qualités de fiduciaire de CC & L Balanced Canadian Equity Fund, Roger Mondor et Amit M. Karia.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Civil procedure - Stay of proceedings -  Right to protection from self‐incrimination - Applicant’s motion to stay Ontario actions in which he is a defendant dismissed - Application of principle against self-incrimination in Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  to protect a defendant to actions in Ontario from being compelled to provide incriminating evidence where there is a live risk that such incriminating evidence will be used against that defendant in a foreign country.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28363                    THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF MISSISSAUGA ‐ v. ‐ GREATER TORONTO AIRPORTS AUTHORITY, GREATER TORONTO AIRPORTS AUTHORITY ASSOCIATES INC., HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA (Ont.) (Civil)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Major and Binnie JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs to the Greater Toronto Airports Authority and Greater Toronto Airports Authority Associates Inc.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est rejetée avec dépens en faveur de Greater Toronto Airports Authority et Greater Toronto Airports Authority Associates Inc.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Constitutional law - Division of powers - Airport development - Airport lands leased from federal Crown - Applicability of provincial building code regime and municipal development charges. 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28341                    GOLDEN FLIGHT TRAVEL LTD. ‐ v. ‐ JOWAKS DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED, FREDWAKS DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED, ROBADAMS DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED, SUZADAMS DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED, HOWADAMS DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED, ELADAMS DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED, FRANBEE HOLDINGS LIMITED, CARBEE HOLDINGS LIMITED AND MICHABEE HOLDINGS LIMITED (Ont.) (Civil)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Major and Binnie JJ.

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

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

NATURE OF THE CASE

Procedural law - Appeal - Summary judgment - Evidence - Admission of fresh evidence on appeal - Whether Court of Appeal erred in dismissing appeal from order for summary judgment and in refusing to admit fresh evidence

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

28315                    CHEE K. LING ‐ v. ‐ HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (B.C.) (Civil)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Major and Binnie JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is granted.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms  - Taxation - Self-incrimination - Assessment - Income tax audit conducted pursuant to Income Tax Act - Statutorily compelled evidence obtained from audit used against taxpayer - Use and derivative use immunity in a subsequent tax evasion prosecution in which that person’s liberty interest is at stake. 

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

July 21, 1997

Provincial Court of British Columbia (Voir dire)

(Graham Prov. Ct. J.)

Information found during income tax audit to be admissible

August 7, 1997

Provincial Court of British Columbia

(Graham Prov. Ct. J.)

Applicant convicted of 5 offences under section 239(1)a) of the Income Tax Act, Canada; conditional stay of proceedings entered on a sixth count

28383                    MR. B., MR. C. AND D. LTD. ‐ v. ‐ MR. A. AND ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (Ont.) (Civil)

CORAM:               Gonthier, Major and Binnie JJ.

The application for leave to appeal is granted.

La demande d’autorisation d’appel est accordée.

NATURE OF THE CASE

Civil rights - Discrimination - Family status and marital status - Employee fired after his daughter, supported by her mother, made allegations of sexual abuse by the employer - Employer is the brother of the wife and uncle to the daughter - Whether the term “family status” as defined in Ontario’s Human Rights Code is broad enough to include the particular identity of one’s spouse and child - Whether the term“family status”is broad enough to include the particular identity of one’s spouse.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

4.6.2001

Before / Devant:  THE REGISTRAR

Miscellaneous motion

John Guy Bradford

v. (28474)

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

Autre requête

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE    The motion to file the applicant’s authorities for the hearing of the leave application on June 11, 2001 is granted.

6.6.2001

Before / Devant:  L’HEUREUX-DUBÉ J.

Motion to strike out

Association des professeurs de Lignery, et al.

c. (28562)

Commission scolaire des Grandes Seigneuries (autrefois:  Commission scolaire du Goéland) (Qué.)

Requête en radiation

REFERRED / RÉFÉRÉE    La requête de l’intimée pour obtenir une ordonnance radiant l’affidavit de Donald Laurin daté du 18 avril 2001, est référée au banc qui entendra la demande d’autorisation d’appel.

6.6.2001

Before / Devant:  L’HEUREUX-DUBÉ J.

Motion to extend the time in which to serve and file a notice of intervention on behalf of the Attorney General for Saskatchewan

Ralph Dick, et al.

v. (27641)

Her Majesty the Queen, et al. (F.C.)

Requête en prorogation du délai de signification et de dépôt d’un avis d’intervention au nom du procureur général de la Saskatchewan

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE    Time extended to May 7, 2001, nunc pro tunc.

6.6.2001

Before / Devant:  THE REGISTRAR

Motion to extend the time in which to serve and file the respondent’s factum

Her Majesty the Queen

v. (27996)

James Handy (Crim.)(Ont.)

Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour signifier et déposer le mémoire de l’intimé

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE    Time extended to June 29, 2001.

7.6.2001

Before / Devant:  L’HEUREUX-DUBÉ J.

Miscellaneous motion

Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub

v. (28528)

The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, et al. (F.C.)

Autre requête

REFERRED / RÉFÉRÉE

UPON APPLICATION by the applicant Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub for a writ of certiorari, pursuant to s. 55 of the Supreme Court Act, to bring up all documents, to which the applicant was not privy, before Mr. Justice Nadon, in disposing of the s. 40.1 Immigration Act proceeding, in order to allow this Court to properly dispose of this leave application and that such material be forwarded under seal, and continued to be sealed, not accessible to the public, including the applicant and his counsel, until such further order of this Court;

AND HAVING READ the material filed ;

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:

The application is referred to the panel seized of the application for leave to appeal.

7.6.2001

Before / Devant:  L’HEUREUX-DUBÉ J.

Motion for a stay of execution and to expedite the application for leave to appeal

Superior Propane Inc., et al.

v. (28593)

The Commissioner of Competition (F.C.)

Requête en vue de surseoir à l'exécution et à accélérer la demande d’autorisation d’appel

REFERRED / RÉFÉRÉE

UPON APPLICATION by the applicants Superior Propane Inc. and ICG Propane Inc. for a stay of the Competition Tribunal Proceedings and for an order expediting the application for leave to appeal and, if granted, the appeal;

AND HAVING READ the material filed ;

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:

The application for a stay of proceedings and for an order expediting the application for leave to appeal and, if granted, the appeal, is referred to the panel seized of the application for leave to appeal.

7.6.2001

Before / Devant:  L’HEUREUX-DUBÉ J.

Further order on motions for leave to intervene

BY/PAR:                Winnipeg Free Press and Brandon Sun

Attorney General of Canada

Attorney General for Ontario

Attorney General of British Columbia

Canadian Newspaper Association

IN/DANS:              Her Majesty the Queen

v. (27738)

Clayton George Mentuck

(Crim.)(Man.)

Autre ordonnance sur des requêtes en autorisation d'intervention

GRANTED / ACCORDÉES

UPON APPLICATION by the Winnipeg Free Press and Brandon Sun, the Attorney General of Canada, the Attorney General of Ontario, the Attorney General of British Columbia and the Canadian Newspaper Association;

AND FURTHER to the Orders dated November 9, 2000, December 12, 2000 and April 17, 2001, granting the applicants leave to intervene in the above appeal;

AND FURTHER to the request in the above applications to present oral argument;

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the said interveners are granted permission to present oral argument at the hearing of the appeal not to exceed the time allowed respectively to each of them as follows:

- Winnipeg Free Press and Brandon Sun                                         15 minutes

- Attorney General of Canada                                                            15 minutes

- Attorney General of British Columbia                                            15 minutes

- Attorney General of Ontario                                                            10 minutes

- Canadian Newspaper Association                                                 10 minutes

8.6.2001

Before / Devant:  THE REGISTRAR

Motion to extend the time in which to serve and file the appellant’s factum and book of authorities

Howard Burke

v. (28546)

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

Requête en prorogation du délai imparti pour signifier et déposer les mémoire et recueil de jurisprudence et de doctrine de l’appelant

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE    Time extended to October 19, 2001.

8.6.2001

Before / Devant:  THE REGISTRAR

Motion to extend the time in which to serve and file the applicants' reply

American International Assurance Life Company Ltd., et al.

v. (28540)

Dorothy Martin (B.C.)

Requête en prorogation du délai de signification et de dépôt de la réplique des requérants

GRANTED / ACCORDÉE    Time extended to June 6, 2001.

4.6.2001

Her Majesty the Queen

v. (28628)

Antonio Portante (Ont.)

AS OF RIGHT

7.6.2001

Her Majesty the Queen

v. (28443)

Rajinder Kumar Benji (B.C.)

12.6.2001

CORAM:               Chief Justice McLachlin, L’Heureux-Dubé, Gonthier, Iacobucci, Major, Bastarache, Binnie, Arbour and LeBel JJ.

Osoyoos Indian Band

v. (27408)

The Town of Oliver, et al. (B.C.)(Civil)(By Leave)

Louise Mandell, Q.C., Leslie Pinder and Clarine Ostrove for the appellant.

Timothy P. Leadem, Q.C., Paul Yearwood and Hunter Gordon for the respondent Her Majesty the Queen in Right of British Columbia.

Barry Williamson and Gregg Cockrill for the respondent The Town of Oliver.

John R. Rich and F. Matthew Kirchner for the intervener Squamish Indian Band.

Gerald Donegan, Q.C., Kathy Ring and Mary King for the intervener Attorney General of Canada.

RESERVED / EN DÉLIBÉRÉ

Nature of the case:

Statutes - Interpretation - Statutory instrument - Irrigation canal constructed across a portion of Reserve - Federal Order-in-Council 1957-577 - Whether s. 35 of the Indian Act authorizes the extinguishment of the aboriginal interest and removal of lands from the Reserve - Alternatively, if the Governor in Council can exercise the discretion conferred by s. 35 of the Act to remove the Indian interest of the Band in their reserve land, what principles control the exercise of such discretion - Whether s. 35 of the Act authorizes the removal of the Land from the Reserve through the vehicle of Order-in-Council 1957-577.