The appellant father appealed the motion judge's child support, spousal support, and
equalization payment ruling, submitting that:
Not exact matches
These include reducing personal income tax rates and increasing the GST rate; undertaking a review of the
Equalization program to reduce regional disparities and eliminating regionally - differential employment insurance
rules; leveling the retirement savings playing field; adopting a formal corporate taxation regime; taxation of interest
payments received from active business income of foreign affiliates; and examination of tariffs on imported manufactures and products.
From a legal standpoint, the motion judge's
ruling effectively circumvented the distinction in law between the types of award: Unpaid
equalization payments got swept into the husband's bankruptcy and evaporated once he was discharged, while spousal support obligations did not.
(1) that the audi alterem partem
rule meant that the motion judge could not fix his own
equalization payment figure — but rather, he had to choose one of the figures proposed by the wife; and
In a short judgment, the province's top court
ruled in favour of the husband, who claimed that the couple's original separation agreement barred a fresh
equalization payment when they split up again.