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Near the beginning of each year, the taxpayer would notify each of its executives that an award of units (within a specifed range) would be made to the executive in respect of the three-year compensation period commencing with that year, which would then be used to determine, within 120 days after the end of that compensation period, the bonus that would be paid to the executive in respect of the compensation period. Bonuses were paid at the option of the taxpayer in cash or shares with full stated capital.

In 1972, the taxpayer and other employees of a private company were offered convertible debentures of their employer which, in the case of the taxpayer, had a principal amount of $5,000. When in 1977 the taxpayer exercised the conversion rights under his debenture to acquire shares of his employer with a fair market value of $11,700, he was deemed by s. 7(1)(a) to receive a taxable benefit equal to the difference between such fair market value and the $5,125 price for which his convertible debenture had been issued to him. This benefit was not exempted from taxation by s.

When a married couple separated, the husband's support payments made pursuant to their "summary of mediated agreements" were deductible. The summary was enough to satisfy the requirement in s. 56.1(4) for an agreement in writing, given that mediated agreements had been finalized and adhered to. Hogan J. stated at para. 11:

The time at which the taxpayer's employer agreed to issue shares to her was the time at which the president called her to his desk and told her that he was going to issue to her 45,000 stock options at a $1.50, rather than at the later date when a written stock option agreement was signed by the president and a related directors' resolution was passed.

In finding that s. 90 did not apply to salary paid to an Indian band chief pursuant to a federal funding program known as Band Support Funding, Marceau J.A. stated (at p. 5642) that an "agreement" in the context of that agreement was "'ancillary agreement' - that is to say an agreement in the nature of a treaty or attached to a treaty".