enjoyment

The taxpayer, who did not like to golf, was required by his employer to belong to a golf club. He used the facilities only very occasionally. The amount of the annual membership dues paid by his employer was not includable in his income. Bowman C.J. stated (at para. 20) that the principle to be extracted from the Canadian, U.K. and U.S. jurisprudence "is that a 'benefit' is not included in an employee's income if it is primarily for the need or convenience of the employer" and that "this is so even where it represents a material acquisition or something of value".

The taxpayer, who purchased 17.6 acres of land knowing that it could not be subdivided, and who lived on the land for several years in a mobile home, was not entitled to claim the principal residence exemption with respect to more than the two hectares allowed by the Minister, because the mobile home as a supposed "housing unit" "simply had no identifiable subjacent or contiguous land" (p.

The taxpayer was entitled to the principal residence exemption on the capital gain arising on the sale, under threat of expropriation, to the local municipality of the full 9 acres on which his rural home was situate because subdivision controls would have precluded him from selling to a normal purchaser any portion of the parcel. It was essentially irrelevant that the minimum lot size under the prevailing by-laws at the time of purchase was 3 acres, given that the subdivision controls would have precluded the taxpayer from selling off the excess 6 acres. Robertson J.A. noted (p.