Canada Pension Plan Regulations

2 (1) In these Regulations,

Act

Act means the Canada Pension Plan; (Loi)

Chairman

Chairman[Repealed, SOR/2013-61, s. 1]

Commissioner

Commissioner[Repealed, SOR/2013-61, s. 1]

Minister

Minister means

• (a) in Parts I, II, III and IV, the Minister of National Revenue, and

• (b) in Part V, the Minister as defined in subsection 42(1) of the Act. (ministre)

Vice-Chairman

Vice-Chairman[Repealed, SOR/2013-61, s. 1]

(2) For the purposes of the Act and these Regulations,

agriculture

agriculture means the operations of farming when carried on on a farm for the benefit of an individual or other person who is a farmer and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes the operation of

• (a) the clearing of land for the purposes of farming,

• (b) the cultivation of the soil,

• (c) the conservation of the soil, including the construction, maintenance and operations of tile drainage systems, ditches, canals, reservoirs or waterways exclusively for the purposes of farming,

• (d) the producing, harvesting, storing or grading of any natural product of farming,

• (e) the preparation of land for or the harvesting of wild berries,

• (f) the raising of bees and producing of honey,

• (g) the breeding or raising of horses, beasts of burden, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, furbearing animals, birds of any kind or the production of eggs,

• (h) dairy farming and the processing of milk, butter or cheese on the farm where it is produced,

• (i) producing maple sap, maple syrup or maple sugar,

when carried on on a farm for the benefit of an individual or other person who is a farmer, and includes

• (j) the offering for sale or selling, off the farm for the benefit of such farmer, of any of the products of the operations previously described in this definition where such offering for sale or selling is incidental to those operations, and

• (k) the exhibiting, advertising, assembling, freezing, storing, grading, processing, packing and transporting, off the farm for the benefit of such farmer, of the products described in paragraph (j) where the exhibiting, advertising, assembling, freezing, storing, grading, processing, packing or transporting is incidental to the offering for sale or selling described in that paragraph; (agriculture)

agricultural enterprise

agricultural enterprise means the business of agriculture carried on for the benefit of an individual or other person who is a farmer; (entreprise agricole)

fishing

fishing means fishing for or catching any fish, including shellfish, crustaceans or molluscs, or any aquatic animal or plant by any method whatever; (pêche)

forestry

forestry means the planting, breeding, propagation, production, protection, measuring or harvesting of trees when carried on in a forest, on a woodlot or on a tree farm, and includes all services incidental to any of those activities if such services are performed where the activities are carried on; (sylviculture)

horticulture

horticulture means

• (a) the operations relating to the breeding, producing, raising or harvesting of

  • (i) legumes, flowers, shrubs or ornamental grasses, and

  • (ii) seeds, seedlings, grafts and cuttings of legumes, flowers, shrubs or ornamental grasses, and

• (b) the operations relating to landscape gardening where the landscape gardening is incidental to the carrying on of

  • (i) any of the operations described in paragraph (a), or

  • (ii) agriculture,

and includes all services incidental to the carrying on of any of the operations described in paragraph (a) or (b) if such services are performed where the operations are carried on; (horticulture)

hunting

hunting means hunting for or catching or killing any wild animal by any method whatever, but does not include any operation involved in carrying on the business of rodent extermination; (chasse)

international organization

international organization means

• (a) any specialized agency of which Canada is a member that is brought into relationship with the United Nations in accordance with Article 63 of the Charter of the United Nations, and

• (b) any international organization of which Canada is a member, the primary purpose of which is the maintenance of international peace or the economic or social well-being of a community of nations; (organisation internationale)

logging

logging means the converting of trees into timber when carried on in a forest, on a woodlot or on a tree farm; (exploitation forestière)

lumbering

lumbering means the milling of timber into lumber or boards when carried on in a forest, on a woodlot or on a tree farm, and includes the preparation of timber for milling in such place; (débit des bois)

trapping

trapping means the operations involved in using any trap, snare or other device for taking or destroying any wild animal, but does not include any operation involved in carrying on the business of rodent extermination. (piégeage)

(3) For the purposes of the definitions logging and lumbering in subsection (2), timber means logs of any size, lathwood, pulpwood, fuelwood, tiewood, veneerwood, posts, bolts, piles, pit props, spars, stakes, bark, chips or any crude wood before it has been milled or otherwise manufactured.