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Date: 20010108 Docket: A-665-99
Montréal, Quebec, Monday, January 8, 2001 CORAM: DESJARDINS, J.A. DÉCARY, J.A. NOËL, J.A. BETWEEN: DEKALB CANADA INC. Appellant AND: AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA Respondent JUDGMENT This appeal is dismissed with costs. "Alice Desjardins" J.A. Certified true translation Suzanne M. Gauthier, LL.L., Trad. a. Date: 20010108 Docket: A-665-99
Coram: DESJARDINS, J.A. DÉCARY, J.A. NOËL, J.A. Between: DEKALB CANADA INC. Appellant AND: AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA Respondent Hearing held in Montréal, Quebec, Monday, January 8, 2001 Judgment pronounced at the hearing in Montréal, Quebec, Monday, January 8, 2001 REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY: DESJARDINS J.A. Date: 20010108 Docket: A-665-99
Coram: DESJARDINS, J.A. DÉCARY, J.A. NOËL, J.A. Between: DEKALB CANADA INC. Appellant AND: AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA Respondent REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Pronounced at the hearing in Montréal, Quebec Monday, January 8, 2001) DESJARDINS J.A.: [1] This is an appeal from a decision rendered by Dubé J., reported as Dekalb Canada Inc. v. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (1999), 175 F.T.R. 294; (1999), 2 C.P.R. (4th) 345; [1999] F.C.J. 1690. [2] Notwithstanding the able submissions of the appellant, we have not been persuaded that the motions judge erred in any way in his interpretation of subsection 20(2) of the Access to Information Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. A-1 (the "Act"), particularly in regard to the "results of product or environmental testing carried out by or on behalf of a government institution" ("résultats d'essais de produits ou d'essais d'environnement effectués par une institution fédérale ou pour son compte"). Subsection 20(2) reads as follows:
[3] Paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Seeds Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. S-8, under the authority of which the appellant's seeds were examined, authorizes the enactment of regulations prescribing the procedures by which "seeds may be... tested". These testing procedures are spelled out in particular in the Seeds Regulations, C.R.C. 1978, vol. XV, c. 1400, at page 11289. [4] The respondent availed itself of the authority thereby conferred on it to check the quality of the appellant's seeds. This, as we understand it, was the "results of product testing" prescribed by the Act. [5] The appeal will therefore be dismissed with costs. "Alice Desjardins" J.A. MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC January 8, 2001 Certified true translation Suzanne M. Gauthier, LL.L., Trad. a. FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL Date: 20010108 Docket: A-665-99
Between: DEKALB CANADA INC. Appellant AND: AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA Respondent REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA APPEAL DIVISION NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD FILE NO: A-665-99 STYLE: DEKALB CANADA INC. Appellant AND: AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA Respondent PLACE OF HEARING: Montréal, Quebec DATE OF HEARING: January 8, 2001 REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY THE HONOURABLE MADAM JUSTICE DESJARDINS DATED: January 8, 2001 APPEARANCES: Serge Fournier for the appellant Claude Morissette and Louis-Alexandre Guay for the respondent SOLICITORS OF RECORD: Brouillette Charpentier Fortin for the appellant Montréal, Quebec Morris Rosenberg for the respondent Deputy Attorney General of Canada Ottawa, Ontario |
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