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Date: 20021209

Docket: A-627-01

Ottawa, Ontario, December 9, 2002

CORAM:        DÉCARY J.A.

LÉTOURNEAU J.A.

NADON J.A.

BETWEEN:

                                                                GEORGES YOUNÉS

                                                                                                                                                       Applicant

                                                                                 and

                                                ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

                                                                                                                                                   Respondent

                                                                        JUDGMENT

The application for judicial review is dismissed.

                                                                                                                                           "Robert Décary"                 

                                                                                                                                                                  J.A.

Certified true translation

Mary Jo Egan, LLB


Date: 20021209

Docket: A-627-01

Neutral Citation: 2002 FCA 487

CORAM:        DÉCARY J.A.

LÉTOURNEAU J.A.

NADON J.A.

BETWEEN:

                                                                GEORGES YOUNÉS

                                                                                                                                                       Applicant

                                                                                 and

                                                ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

                                                                                                                                                   Respondent

                                     Hearing held at Montréal, Quebec, on December 5, 2002

                                 Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on December 9, 2002

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:                                                                          LÉTOURNEAU J.A.

CONCURRED IN BY:                                                                                                         DÉCARY J.A.

                                                                                                                                               NADON J.A.


Date: 20021209

Docket: A-627-01

Neutral Citation: 2002 FCA 487

CORAM:        DÉCARY J.A.

LÉTOURNEAU J.A.

NADON J.A.

BETWEEN:

                                                                GEORGES YOUNÉS

                                                                                                                                                       Applicant

                                                                                 and

                                                ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

                                                                                                                                                   Respondent

                                                                                                                                                                       

    REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

LÉTOURNEAU J.A.


[1]                 This is an application for judicial review of a decision of Judge Archambault of the Tax Court of Canada. The applicant, who is representing himself, is asking us for all intents and purposes to review a finding made by the judge that was based essentially on the credibility of the applicant. The judge did not believe that there had been a charitable gift in the amount claimed by the applicant in this case. It is not up to us to review this finding of fact of the judge, who had the benefit of hearing the applicant and the other witnesses who were claiming similar deductions.

[2]                 Similarly, I do not see any error in his finding that the applicant had made a false statement in his tax return warranting the application of subsection 163(2) of the Income Tax Act.

[3]                 Accordingly, I would dismiss the application for judicial review with costs.

  

                                                                                                                                       "Gilles Létourneau"                 

                                                                                                                                                                  J.A.

"I concur.

Robert Décary J.A."

"I concur.

Marc Nadon J.A."

    

Certified true translation

Mary Jo Egan, LLB


                                                    FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA

                                                                 APPEAL DIVISION

                                                          SOLICITORS OF RECORD

  

                                                                                                                                                                       

DOCKET:                                                   A-627-01

STYLE OF CAUSE:                                  GEORGES YOUNÉS v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

  

PLACE OF HEARING:                           Montréal, Quebec    

DATE OF HEARING:                              December 5, 2002

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:      LÉTOURNEAU J.A.

CONCURRED IN BY:                           DÉCARY J.A.

NADON J.A.

DATED:                                                     December 9, 2002

   

APPEARANCES:

Georges Younés                                                                             FOR HIMSELF

Simon-Nicolas Crépin

Nathalie Lessard                                                                             FOR THE RESPONDENT

   

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:                                                                                                                  

Morris Rosenberg

Ottawa, Ontario                                                                            FOR THE RESPONDENT

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