Although the French version was ambiguous, the English version of the definition of "commercial debt obligation" in s. 80(1) clearly included non-interest bearing debt obligations. Favreau J. cited Medovarski to establish that, where one language version is ambiguous and the other not, the unambiguous version prevails. Therefore, the taxpayers could not benefit from the potentially narrower interpretation of the French version.
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