A police officer was convicted of fraud over $5,000 after lying and wilfully withholding information during an assessment by a physician-arbitrator responsible for determining his disability diagnosis, thereby depriving his employer.
The majority of the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld the conviction; the dissenting judge would have substituted a verdict of attempted fraud.
The appellant appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada as of right on the basis of a dissent on a question of law.
The majority of the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, substantially for the reasons of the Court of Appeal majority, finding sufficient causal connection between the dishonest acts and deprivation to sustain the fraud conviction.
