A PRACTITIONER'S GUIDE TO THE NEW CANADA NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS ACT

Authors

  • Wayne D Gray

Abstract

On June 23, 2009, Bill C-4, the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act received Royal Assent. The new Act is important governance legislation in its own right but will doubtless exert an influence far beyond those corporations that will incorporate or continue under it. Just as the CBCA exerted a powerful influence on the shape of provincial and territorial laws governing business corporations in the years immediately following its implementation in 1975, this new federal Act is bound to exert an equally strong (if not more profound) influence on provincial and territorial not-for-profit corporate law reform in the years ahead. This article reviews the types of not-for-profit corporations to which the new Act will apply, summarizes the rules differentiating soliciting and non-soliciting corporations, describes some of the new governance provisions, analyzes possible problem areas and suggests workaround solutions to these problems, draws implications from the implicit governance regime imported into the new Act and outlines the process for continuing to the new Act.

Keywords:

not-for-profit corporation, Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act

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Published

2011-01-01

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Legal Commentary