Mr Douglas McCarthy participated in the Fiscal Arbitrators fiasco. His lawyer, as part of some pre-trial skirmishing, tried to argue, among other things, that Mr McCarthy shouldn’t have to answer questions on examinations-for-discovery because the discovery process amounts to torture. Mr Justice Patrick Boyle’s response: no it doesn’t; “Enough said.” McCarthy v R, 2016 TCC 45.
I would call this comic relief except that, for Mr McCarthy, I’m sure the tax position he finds himself in is not at all funny.
