Law360 Canada ( February 2, 2021, 6:18 AM EST) -- Appeal by a Tax-Free Savings Account trustee from a decision of the Tax Court of Canada dismissing the appellant’s motion to compel the respondent to provide certain documents and answers to certain questions as part of discovery in a Tax Court appeal involving statutory interpretation. The Tax Court found that certain of the documents sought by the appellant were in the public domain and refused to order production since such an order would amount to requiring the respondent to do the appellant’s research. The Tax Court also refused to order production of, and answers to questions about, internal Department of Finance documents on the basis that they were of very little or no relevance to the statutory interpretation issue in the underlying appeal before the Tax Court. The Tax Court refused to order that the respondent provide information concerning factual assumptions surrounding the object, spirit and purpose and the policy behind the statutory provisions in issue based on its view that the appellant was not seeking the respondent’s legal position, but information concerning the respondent’s legal argument to which the appellant was not entitled in discover. The appellant also argued that the Tax Court gave rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias by basing its decision on several issues that had not been raised by the parties and in awarding costs in any event of the cause....