Date: 20060316

Docket: T-611-04

Citation:  2006 FC 349

Ottawa, Ontario, March 16, 2006

PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HUGESSEN

BETWEEN:

MICHEL VENNAT

Applicant

and

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

Respondent

REASONS FOR ORDER AND ORDER

(Delivered from the bench by teleconference at Ottawa, Ontario

 and Montréal, Quebec on March 15, 2006)

In response to the respondent’s motion for an order that applicant and affiant Michel Vennat answer the questions asked of him during the cross-examination on his affidavit held on January 14, 2006, and that he provide certain documents in his control;

[1]               In my opinion, the main issues raised in the motion are not relevant to this case. While it may be that the correctness of the Superior Court’s decision in proceedings to which the applicant was not a party is an issue to be considered by this court, the opinions of counsel, however eminent, are not relevant. The other issues raised are purely collateral to this dispute, such as the date on which the applicant found out that counsel of his former employer, the Development Bank of Canada, would not be relieved of solicitor-client privilege, and the costs incurred to defend the Bank before the Superior Court, and are also irrelevant.

[2]               The motion is dismissed. Costs in the cause.

ORDER

THE COURT ORDERS that:

The motion be dismissed, costs in the cause.

“James K. Hugessen”

Ottawa, Ontario

Signed on March 16, 2006

Certified true translation

Francie Gow

FEDERAL COURT

SOLICITORS OF RECORD

DOCKET:                                          T-611-04

STYLE OF CAUSE:                          MICHEL VENNAT v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

PLACE OF HEARING:                    Ottawa, Ontario and Montréal, Quebec

DATE OF HEARING:                       March 15, 2006          

REASONS FOR ORDER AND

ORDER:                                            Hugessen, J.

DATED:                                             March 16, 2006

APPEARANCES:

SOLICITORS OF RECORD: