Law360, New York ( August 1, 2014, 11:34 AM EDT) -- When a foreign court issues a request for assistance to Canadian judicial authorities asking that a Canadian company be compelled to answer questions in the foreign litigation, what should a Canadian court do? What if the Canadian company is not a party to the foreign litigation, the request for assistance provides no background information about the case and the request for assistance is not submitted by a litigant from the foreign case, but rather by the provincial attorney general who also is not a party to the foreign litigation? The Superior Court of Quebec decided that in such a context, it would not exercise its discretion to order the Canadian company to answer the questions posed by the foreign court....