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r loss for the taxation year from carrying on the insurance business in Canada; and (d) if a non-resident insurer carries on an insurance business in Canada in a taxation year, (i) in computing the non-resident insurer’s income or loss for the taxation year from the insurance business carried on by it in Canada, no amount is to be included in respect of the non-resident insurer’s gross investment revenue for the taxation year derived from property used or held by it in the course of carrying on an insurance business that is not designated insurance property for the taxation year of the non-resident insurer, and (ii) in computing the non-resident insurer’s taxable capital gains or allowable capital losses for the taxation year from dispositions of capital property (referred to in this subparagraph as “insurance business property”) that, at the time of the disposition, was used or held by the non-resident insurer in the course of carrying on an insurance business, (A) there is to be included each taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss of the non-resident insurer for the taxation year from a disposition in the taxation year of an insurance business property that was a designated insurance property for the taxation year of the non-resident insurer, and (B) there is not to be included any taxable capital gain or allowable capital loss of the non-resident insurer for the taxation year from a disposition in the taxation year of an insurance business property that was not a designated insurance property for the taxation year of the non-resident insurer. Income — designated foreign insurance business (2.1) If a life insurer resident in Canada has a designated foreign insurance business in a taxation year, (a) for the purposes of computing the life insurer’s income or loss from carrying on an insurance business in Canada for that taxation year, the life insurer’s insurance business carried on in Canada is deemed to include the insurance of the specified Canadian risks that are insured as part of the designated foreign insurance business; (b) if, in the immediately preceding taxation year, the designated foreign insurance business was not a designated foreign insurance business, for the purposes of paragraph (4)(a), subsection (9), the definition designated insurance property in subsection (12) and paragraphs 12(1)(d) to (e), the life insurer is deemed to have carried on the business in Canada in that immediately preceding year and to have claimed the maximum amounts to which it would have been entitled under subparagraph (3)(a)(i) and paragraphs 20(1)(l) and (l.1) and 20(7)(c) in respect of those specified Canadian risks if that designated foreign insurance business had been a designated foreign insurance business in that immediately preceding year; and (c) for the purposes of subparagraph (3)(a)(ii.1) and subsection 20(22), (i) the life insurer is deemed to have carried on the business in Canada in that immediately preceding year, and (ii) the amounts, if any, that would have been prescribed in respect of the insurer for the purposes of paragraphs (4)(b) and 12(1)(e.1) for that immediately preceding year in respect of the insurance policies in respect of those specified Canadian risks are deemed to have been included in computing its income for that year. Insurance swaps (2.2) For the purposes of this section, one or more risks insured by a life insurer resident in Canada, as part of an insurance business carried on in a country other than Canada, that would not be specified Canadian risks if this Act were read without reference to this subsection, are deemed to be specified Canadian risks if those risks would be deemed to be specified Canadian risks because of paragraph 95(2)(a.21) if the life insurer were a foreign affiliate of a taxpayer. Insurance swaps (2.3) Subsection (2.4) applies in respect of one or more agreements or arrangements if (a) subsection (2.2) applies to deem one or more risks insured by a particular life in