Summary: When a receiver is appointed under both the BIA and provincial receivership legislation, the BIA’s appeal rules govern, and paramountcy blocks any resort to the provincial route. Applying this, the Court of Appeal refused the Debtors leave to appeal an Approval and Vesting Order and an Ancillary Relief Order tied to the sale of their properties, since none of the automatic appeal rights under s. 193(a)-(d) applied. The Debtors also failed the leave test under s. 193(e), as their appeal raised no issue of general importance and the sale process stood unchallenged on the record.
On application by the Royal Bank of Canada, the Receiver was appointed over the property of the appellant Debtors pursuant to s. 243(1) of the Bankruptcy…