The taxpayer ("Amalco") was formed on the amalgamation of two corporations, one of which ("UCCI") had previously incurred interest-bearing indebtedness to a financing affiliate within the Union Carbide group of companies and the other of which ("DCCI") was a Canadian subsidiary within the Dow group of companies that dealt at arm's length with UCCI and the financing affiliate up to the time of acquisition of control of that group by the Dow group of companies. The interest in question was incurred in the 2000 taxation year of UCCI, the next taxation year of UCCI ended in 2001 with the acquisition of its control by the Dow group, and its next taxation year ended in 2001 with its amalgamation.
In finding that s. 78(1) applied to Amalco, Noël, J.A. rejected [at para. 31] the submission of the taxpayer "that Amalco should be viewed as having incurred the obligation back in 2000, but without regard to the non-arm's length relationship that prevailed at that time" after having noted [at para. 30] that under s. 87(7)(d) "an amalgamated corporation stands in the shoes of its predecessor insofar as previously incurred debts are concerned as of the time when they were incurred".