What is the test for having a "secondary intent" in a real estate transaction?

Canada (Federal), Canada

The following excerpt is from Freer v. The Queen, 2003 TCC 20 (CanLII):

Of equal significance is a statement of Noël, J. in Racine, Demers and Nolin v. M.N.R., [1965] CTC 150, 65 DTC 5098 (Ex. Ct.), where he said: . . . . . ...the fact alone that a person buying a property with the aim of using it as capital could be induced to resell it if a sufficiently high price were offered to him, is not sufficient to change an acquisition of capital into an adventure in the nature of trade. In fact, this is not what must be understood by a "secondary intent" if one wants to utilize this term. To give to a transaction which involves the acquisition of capital the double character of also being at the same time an adventure in the nature of trade, the purchaser must have in his mind, at the moment of the purchase, the possibility of reselling as an operating motivation for the acquisition; that is to say that he must have had in mind that upon a certain type of circumstances arising he had hopes of being able to resell it at a profit instead of using the thing purchased for purposes of capital. Generally speaking, a decision that such a motivation exists will have to be based on inferences flowing from circumstances surrounding the transaction rather than on direct evidence of what the purchaser had in mind.

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