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In 2001 (before the three annual fiscal periods in issue) the appellant (CIBC) outsourced part of its Visa-card transaction processing and payment services to an arm’s length non-resident (“GPDI”) so that, in a typical transaction in which a Canadian cardholder presented their CIBC Visa card to a Canadian merchant, GPDI would process the point-of-sale information received from the merchant and transmit it to CIBC for credit authorization, transmit the authorization (assuming no “decline”) back

The taxpayer (“Gerbro”) was a Canadian investment corporation (owned by a family trust but with an elderly income beneficiary, so that Gerbro was required to have liquid investments) whose board-established investment guidelines specified that between 0% and 30% of its holdings be of directional hedge funds and 0% to 30% be of non-directional hedge funds (i.e., uncorrelated with the equity markets).

The taxpayer purchased an asphalt plant with the expectation that it would sell up to 40% of the production of the plant to third parties and use the balance in its own asphalt paving business. In fact, only 25% of the plant's production was sold to third parties.

Hogan J found that dried insects donated by the taxpayer to Laval University were individually appraised and did not "form an unbreakable set," and thus were not a set (as per s. 46(3)), so that under s. 46(1), each insect had an adjusted cost base of $1,000. Before so concluding, he disagreed with the expansive interpretation of personal-use property in Klotz, stating (at para. 15):

A Mother's Pizza restaurant, which devoted 25% of its floor area and 30% of its payroll to its kitchen, and the balance to the dining rooms and ancillary activities, could not be said to be using the restaurant building "primarily" for the purpose of processing goods (i.e., food) for sale.

Although Burger King restaurant were used for "processing" (given that the ordinary meaning of that word did not exclude the preparation of food), the taxpayer was unable to adduce sufficient evidence of qualitative factors that would detract from a conclusion that the buildings of the taxpayer's fast food chain were not used "primarily" for processing given that approximately 46.5% of the space was used for processing.