Income Tax Act — I-3.3 66.2
g a well in Canada for the injection of water, gas or any other substance to assist in the recovery of petroleum or natural gas from another well, (iv) drilling for water or gas in Canada for injection into a petroleum or natural gas formation, or (v) drilling or converting a well in Canada for the purposes of monitoring fluid levels, pressure changes or other phenomena in an accumulation of petroleum or natural gas, (b) any expense incurred by the taxpayer in drilling or recompleting an oil or gas well in Canada after the commencement of production from the well, (c) any expense incurred by the taxpayer before November 17, 1978 for the purpose of bringing a mineral resource in Canada into production and incurred prior to the commencement of production from the resource in reasonable commercial quantities, including (i) clearing, removing overburden and stripping, and (ii) sinking a mine shaft, constructing an adit or other underground entry, (c.1) any expense, or portion of any expense, that is not a Canadian exploration expense, incurred by the taxpayer for the purpose of bringing a new mine in a mineral resource in Canada that is a bituminous sands deposit or an oil shale deposit into production and incurred before the new mine comes into production in reasonable commercial quantities, including an expense for clearing the land, removing overburden and stripping, or building an entry ramp, (c.2) any expense, or portion of any expense, that is not a Canadian exploration expense, incurred by the taxpayer after March 20, 2013 for the purpose of bringing a new mine in a mineral resource in Canada, other than a bituminous sands deposit or an oil shale deposit, into production in reasonable commercial quantities and incurred before the new mine comes into production in such quantities, including an expense for clearing, removing overburden, stripping, sinking a mine shaft, constructing an adit or other underground entry or drilling a well for the extraction of lithium from brines, (d) any expense (other than an amount included in the capital cost of depreciable property) incurred by the taxpayer after 1987 (i) in sinking or excavating a mine shaft, main haulage way or similar underground work designed for continuing use, for a mine in a mineral resource in Canada built or excavated after the mine came into production, (ii) in extending any such shaft, haulage way or work referred to in subparagraph (i), or (iii) in drilling or completing a well for the extraction of lithium from brines in Canada after the mine came into production, (e) the cost to the taxpayer of, including any payment for the preservation of a taxpayer’s rights in respect of, any property described in paragraph (b), (e) or (f) of the definition Canadian resource property in subsection 66(15), or any right to or interest in — or for civil law, any right in or to — the property (other than a right or an interest that the taxpayer has by reason of being a beneficiary under a trust or a member of a partnership), (f) subject to section 66.8, the taxpayer’s share of any expense referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (e) incurred by a partnership in a fiscal period thereof at the end of which the taxpayer was a member of the partnership, unless the taxpayer elects in respect of the share in prescribed form and manner on or before the day that is 6 months after the taxpayer’s taxation year in which that period ends, or (g) any cost or expense referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (e) incurred by the taxpayer pursuant to an agreement in writing with a corporation, entered into before 1987, under which the taxpayer incurred the cost or expense solely as consideration for shares, other than prescribed shares, of the capital stock of the corporation issued to the taxpayer or any interest in or right to — or, for civil law, any right in or to — such shares, but for greater certainty, shall not include (h) any consideration given by the taxpayer for any share or any intere