Date: 19981215

Docket: A-361-98

CORAM:      PRATTE J.A.

         DESJARDINS J.A.

         DÉCARY J.A.

BETWEEN:

     GUY PROULX

                                          Applicant

     - and -

     ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

    

     Respondent

     REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

     (Delivered from the bench at Québec, Quebec

     on Tuesday, December 15, 1998)

PRATTE J.A.

[1]      The board of referees had to determine whether the applicant, who worked as a real estate agent while receiving unemployment insurance benefits, had devoted enough time to this employment to have followed it as a principal means of livelihood.

[2]      In our view, the board erred in law in answering this question in the affirmative.

[3]      As it accepted the applicant"s testimony that he had devoted only ten hours per week to this apparently unpaid employment, the board erred in finding as it did.

[4]      The application will accordingly be allowed, the impugned decision set aside and the matter referred back to the Chief Umpire for redetermination on the basis that the applicant met the requirements of subsection 43(2) of the Unemployment Insurance Regulations.

     Louis Pratte

     J.A.

Certified true translation

M. Iveson

Date: 19981215

Docket: A-361-98

CORAM:      PRATTE J.A.

         DESJARDINS J.A.

         DÉCARY J.A.

BETWEEN:

     GUY PROULX

                                             Applicant

     - and -

     ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

    

     Respondent

Hearing held at Québec, Quebec, on Tuesday, December 15, 1998.

Judgment delivered from the bench on Tuesday, December 15, 1998.

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:      PRATTE J.A.

     FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

Date: 19981215

Docket: A-361-98

BETWEEN:

     GUY PROULX

                                                      Applicant

     - and -

     ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

    

     Respondent

     REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

     OF THE COURT

     FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

     NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD

COURT FILE NO.:      A-361-98

STYLE OF CAUSE:      Guy Proulx v. AGC

PLACE OF HEARING:      Québec, Quebec

DATE OF HEARING:      December 15, 1998

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT:      (Pratte, Desjardins, Décary JJ.A.)

DELIVERED FROM THE BENCH ON DECEMBER 15, 1998 BY:      Pratte J.A.

APPEARANCES:

Frédéric St-Jean      for the applicant

Francisco Couto      for the respondent

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:

Frédéric St-Jean      for the applicant

Sainte-Foy, Quebec

Morris Rosenberg      for the respondent

Deputy Attorney General of Canada