Bastien Estate v. Canada, 2011 DTC 5118 [at at 6014], 2011 SCC 38, [2011] 2 SCR 710 -- summary under Ordinary Meaning

By services, 28 November, 2015

Before going on to find that interest income earned by a status Indian from a deposit with an on-reserve caisse populaire was exempt under s. 87 of the Indian Act as personal property situated on the reserve, Cromwell J stated (para.14):

Courts should interpret the phrase "on a reserve" having due regard to the "substance and the plain and ordinary meaning of the language used rather than to forensic dialectics."

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Statutory Interpretation - Ordinary Meaning
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avoid forensic dialectics
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