Speaking in vain

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Cases

Canada v. Loblaw Financial Holdings Inc., 2021 SCC 51, [2021] 3 S.C.R. 687

Côté J applied (para. 64) the proposition that “Parliament does not speak in vain” in agreeing with with the proposition that:

It is...

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Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 248 - Subsection 248(1) - Business “business conducted,” as contrasted to “business,” did not include the raising of capital 229
Tax Topics - General Concepts - Foreign Law meaning of banking business under Barbados law was not persuasive 234
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 95 - Subsection 95(1) - Investment Business - Paragraph (a) bank business was conducted with arm's length persons notwithstanding that capital raised from shareholder 581
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Certainty full effect should be given to Parliament’s precise and unequivocal words to produce certainty 88
Tax Topics - Income Tax Act - Section 91 - Subsection 91(1) two policies balanced in FAPI regime 79
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Expressio Unius est Exclusio Alterius specific addition of a competition requirement in another provision implied that there was no such requirement here 152

Canada (National Revenue) v. Thompson, 2016 SCC 21, [2016] 1 S.C.R. 381

The Court found that restrictively interpreting the provision before it:

would violate the presumption against tautology, according to which...

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Tax Topics - General Concepts - Solicitor-Client Privilege exclusion for accounting records was invalid even where CRA demands related to enforcement action against the lawyer 540
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Hansard, explanatory notes, etc. Hansard indicated an intent for an amendment to trench on privilege 107
Tax Topics - Statutory Interpretation - Redundancy/reading in words presumption against tautology 120