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     Date: 19980402

     Docket: A-639-97

MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC, THE 2nd DAY OF APRIL 1998

CORAM:             THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DENAULT

                 THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE LÉTOURNEAU

                 THE HONOURABLE DEPUTY JUSTICE CHEVALIER

BETWEEN:

     ALAIN BÉRUBÉ

     Applicant

     AND

     CANADA EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION

     Respondent

     AND

     DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

     Third Party

     J U D G M E N T

     The application for judicial review is dismissed.

     Pierre Denault

     J.A.

Certified true translation

Peter Douglas


     Date: 19980402

     Docket: A-639-97

Coram:          DENAULT J.A.

            LÉTOURNEAU J.A.

            CHEVALIER D.J.

Between:

     ALAIN BÉRUBÉ

     Applicant

     AND

     CANADA EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION

     Respondent

     AND

     DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

     Third Party

Hearing held at Montréal, Quebec on Thursday, April 2, 1998.

Judgment delivered at Montréal, Quebec on Thursday, April 2, 1998.

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:      LÉTOURNEAU J.A.


     Date: 19980402

     Docket: A-639-97

Coram:          DENAULT J.A.

            LÉTOURNEAU J.A.

            CHEVALIER D.J.

Between:

     ALAIN BÉRUBÉ

     Applicant

     AND

     CANADA EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION

     Respondent

     AND

     DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

     Third Party

     REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

LÉTOURNEAU J.A.

[1]      The applicant complains, by way of this application for judicial review, about the harshness of the penalties imposed on him for some 20 false or misleading statements as a result of which he received unemployment insurance benefits to which he was not entitled. The applicant faults the Umpire for failing to reverse the failure or refusal of the Board of Referees to revise the amount of the penalties, which he had asked the Board to do in his notice of appeal of September 30, 1994.

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[2]      The decision of the Board of Referees was issued on November 30, 1994. In its decision, the Board upheld the Commission"s decision requiring the applicant to repay the overpayment of benefits. It also affirmed the imposition of penalties, although it did not actually rule on their harshness. The Board was quite right not to revise the quantum of the penalties since at that time, according to the case law of this Court, neither the Board of Referees nor the Umpire could exercise this power, which was conferred on the Commission.1

[3]      In any event, by the time the Umpire heard the case in 1997, it was open to him to exercise this power, and in our view he did so in a judicious manner that does not warrant our intervention.

[4]      The Umpire"s decision is perhaps not as clear as possible, but we are satisfied that he considered all the aggravating and mitigating circumstances in the record.

[5]      The application for judicial review will be dismissed.

     Gilles Létourneau

     J.A.

Certified true translation

Peter Douglas


                                                     FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
                                                     Date: 19980402
                                                     Docket: A-639-97
                                                Between:
                                                     ALAIN BÉRUBÉ
                                                     Applicant
                                                     AND
                                                     CANADA EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
                                                     COMMISSION
                                                     Respondent
                                                     AND
                                                     DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
                                                     OF CANADA
                                                     Third Party
                                                     REASONS FOR JUDGMENT


     FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

     NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD

COURT FILE NO.:                  A-639-97

STYLE OF CAUSE:             ALAIN BÉRUBÉ

     Applicant

                        AND

                        CANADA EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

                        COMMISSION

     Respondent

                        AND

                        DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

     Third Party

PLACE OF HEARING:             Montréal, Quebec

DATE OF HEARING:             April 2, 1998

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DENAULT, THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE LÉTOURNEAU AND THE HONOURABLE DEPUTY JUSTICE CHEVALIER)

DELIVERED FROM THE BENCH BY:      The Honourable Mr. Justice Létourneau

     Dated:                      April 2, 1998

APPEARANCES:

     Claudine Barabé             for the applicant

     Claude Provencher             for the respondent and the third party

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:

     CAMPEAU, OUELLET, NADON,

     BARABÉ ET ASSOCIÉS

     Montréal, Quebec             for the applicant

     George Thomson

     Deputy Attorney General of Canada

     Ottawa, Ontario             for the respondent and the third party

__________________

1 Morin v. Canada (Employment and Immigration Commission) , 134 D.L.R. (4th) 724, at p. 728 (F.C.A.).


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