Daniel Baum

The appellant challenged a Superior Court of Quebec decision concerning the federal election in the electoral district of Terrebonne.

The Supreme Court of Canada heard the appeal and delivered an oral judgment the same day.

A majority allowed the appeal and annulled the federal election held on April 28, 2025, in Terrebonne.

Reasons were reserved, including on costs.

A Teva employee fraudulently requisitioned and deposited 63 cheques into accounts under names matching or resembling real customers.

The majority held the collecting banks were liable in conversion because the payees were neither fictitious nor non-existing under s. 20(5) of the Bills of Exchange Act.

The Court restored the motions judge’s decision and rejected the banks’ false-payee defence.

In the administration of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, certain claimants sought to examine under oath the Executive Director of the Secretariat in support of a Request for Directions concerning disclosure obligations and claimant witness notification.

The court held that the applicable Rule 39.03 framework required the moving parties to show that the proposed evidence was relevant and that the witness was in a position to provide it.

The issues raised by the underlying request were primarily interpretive and normative, turning on the scope of disclosure obligations under the settlement agreement rather than on the Secretariat’s internal processes.

Because the proposed examination would not assist in deciding those issues and was unnecessary to the evidentiary record, the request was dismissed.