What relationship exists between a driver and an independent contractor?

Canada (Federal), Canada

The following excerpt is from Always Towing Inc. v. M.N.R., 2000 CanLII 545 (TCC):

I am aware that the drivers - except the intervener - regarded themselves as independent contractors. What the parties thought their relationship was will not change the facts. In the case of The Minister of National Revenue v. Emily Standing 147 N.R. 238, Stone J.A. at p. 239 stated: "There is no foundation in the case law for the proposition that such a relationship may exist merely because the parties choose to describe it to be so regardless of the surrounding circumstances when weighed in the light of the Wiebe Door test."

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