In finding that s. 74(1) applied to attribute dividend income to the taxpayer when he permitted his wife to subscribe for common shares of his private company for nominal consideration, Linden J.A. stated (p. 6386):
"In my view, the phrase 'transfer of property' is used in this provision in a rather broad sense ... The transfer, which in this case was indirect, in that the taxpayer arranged for his company to issue shares to his wife, is nevertheless a transfer from the husband to the wife. There is no need for shares to be transferred in order to trigger this provision ..."