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How the new Building Canada Act works
On June 26, Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act, received royal assent. The One Canadian Economy Act introduces two pieces of legislation aimed at bolstering economic development in Canada.
Global | Publication | April 2020
– In particular:
Category A - Employee-related payments (subject to limits)
Category B - Government debts
Category A takes precedence over Category B (and so on) and debts within each category rank equally (and, if assets are insufficient to pay everything, abate equally) among themselves
– Preferential creditors rank ahead of floating charge holders where the assets of the company are insufficient to satisfy all preferential creditors
– Share pari passu, subject to rights attaching to different classes of share in the constitution
– If proceeds are insufficient, they all receive the same percentage of what they would otherwise be entitled to
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On June 26, Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act, received royal assent. The One Canadian Economy Act introduces two pieces of legislation aimed at bolstering economic development in Canada.
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In this edition we report on the Law Commission’s interim statement on 1954 Act reform following its two November consultations. We then examine the facts, judgments and implications of 3 recent cases: Emily Colville comments on the progress of a case determining whether or not a roof top garden should be considered a “storey” for the purposes of the Building Safety Act 2022.
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