Cases
Qing Gang K. Li v. The Queen, 94 DTC 6059 (FCA)
The taxpayer, a Chinese citizen, entered Canada on a visitor's visa in 1984, and in 1987 married a Canadian citizen and applied for landed immigrant status. Because his application to become a landed immigrant evidenced an intention to remain in Canada permanently, it could not be said that he was "visiting" (i.e., temporarily resident) at the time that he received a bursary in 1990. Accordingly, the bursary was not exempt from tax under the Act.
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Gu v. MNR, 91 DTC 821 (TCC)
In order to secure funds required to complete his doctoral program at the University of Toronto, the taxpayer (who was a resident of China) obtained employment at a Toronto law firm. In finding that the taxpayer's employment income was not exempted under Article 19 of the Canada-China Income Tax Convention, Bonner J. stated (p. 824):
"The language suggests that the payments must in some way be related to the recipient's maintenance costs, education costs or training costs. Payments are not received to cover cost of a specified class simply because the recipient ultimately spends the money to meet costs of the type named."