relating to

A corporation owned by the appellant entered into an agreement with him in 1981 to sell vacant land to him for a purchase price of $185,000 with the agreement of purchase and sale being conditional upon the appellant and the corporation entering into a building contract under which the corporation would construct condominium units on the land. The transfer was registered in 1983 after building work had been completed.

A trustee in bankruptcy of a taxpayer was permitted to introduce testimony of two Revenue Canada officials in proceedings instituted in the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench for a declaration that certain assets registered in the name of the taxpayer's wife were held in trust for the taxpayer's estate. After noting (at p. 5447) that the phrase "relating to" in s. 241(3) had the same wide scope as "in respect of," Iacobucci, J.