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                                                                                                                                            Date: 20031119

                                                                                                                                          Docket: A-54-03

                                                                                                                              Citation: 2003 FCA 434

CORAM:        STRAYER J.A.

BETWEEN:

                                                                 ROXANNE SWAIN

                                                                                                                                                       Applicant

                                                                                 and

                                            THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA

                                                                                                                                                   Respondent

                                                            REASONS FOR ORDER

STRAYER J.A.

[1]                 The applicant seeks now to add to the record, in this application for judicial review of a decision of the Pension Appeals Board, new material concerning her medical condition in 1998 and 1999. This material was not before the Board when it heard her case in September, 2002 and found that she was not disabled within subparagraph 42(2)(a)(i) of the Canada Pension Plan.

[2]                 On a judicial review we can only consider whether the Board made any reviewable error in deciding as it did on the basis of the material before it. Therefore we cannot consider evidence on the merits that was not before the Board.


[3]                 Accordingly this material cannot be added to the record at this time and the motion is dismissed.

                                                                                                                                          (s) "B.L. Strayer"          

J.A.


                                                    FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL

                              NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD

DOCKET:                                              A-54-03

STYLE OF CAUSE:              Roxanne Swain v. The Attorney General of Canada

MOTION DEALT WITH IN WRITING WITHOUT APPEARANCE OF PARTIES

REASONS FOR ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE STRAYER

DATED:                                                 November 19, 2003

WRITTEN REPRESENTATIONS:

Ms. Roxanne Swain

Florence, Nova Scotia                                                                                        ON HER OWN BEHALF

Mr. John Vaissi Nagy

Department of Justice

Ottawa, Ontario                                                                                                 FOR THE RESPONDENT

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:

Ms. Roxanne Swain

Florence, Nova Scotia                                                                                        ON HER OWN BEHALF

Morris Rosenberg

Deputy Attorney General of Canada

Ottawa, Ontario                                                                                                 FOR THE RESPONDENT

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