3 November 1997 External T.I. 9725615 - INCREASE IN INTEREST -- summary under Paragraph 55(3)(a)

"In circumstances where no person has acquired any shares of the corporation in question, it is our view that for the purposes of determining whether there has been 'a significant increase ... in the total direct interest' of an unrelated person in the corporation for purposes of ... subparagraph 55(3)(a)(ii) and (iv) [sic] of the Act that one must compare the value of a person's interest in the corporation as a percentage of the value of all interests in the corporation immediately before the share redemption to the value of that person's interest in the corporation as a percentage of the value of all interests in the corporation immediately after the share redemption." Accordingly, in a situation where a substantial preferred share interest of one shareholder was redeemed, there was a significant increase in the total direct interests of the other unrelated shareholders of the corporation.