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7 documents for majority voting vs cumulative voting

- Director Elections And Shareholder Democracy
... plurality vs. majority voting. In Canada, corporate statutes currently ... Cumulative voting, which is expressly permitted under both th...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Canada Law Articles in English
- Analysis of a Merger From a Governance Perspective: The Case of Abitibi-Consolidated and Donohue
Adopting a governance perspective, this study analyzes the merger between closely-held Donohue Inc. and widely-held Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. Findings suggest that the absence of a controlling shareholder and weak board governance at Abitibi might explain both (a) its executives' interests in the transaction and (b) its CEO's compensation increase despite underperformance. Second, an intergeneration shift of control at Quebecor (Donohue's parent company) led to a strategic reorientation that (a) transformed Donohue into a target and (b) insured that Donohue's executives had incentives to pursue a deal. Finally, Donohue's noncontrolling shareholders benefited from the transaction while Abitibi shareholders experienced wealth reduction. The merger's aftermath provides some counter evidenc...

... via a pyramid structure and dual class voting shares with a nonfamily CEO). These contrasting ow... out.6 Figure 3 shows that Abitibi's cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) from 20 days prior to the a... (1992) observed that bidders with majority-independent members do better than others, Subrahm...
- Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
- Vol. 25 Nbr. 2, June 2008
- Quebec (Attorney General) v. Moses , 2010 SCC 17 ; [2010] 1 S.C.R. 557, Quebec (Attorney General) v. Moses, 2010 SCC 17, 2010 SCC 17 (2010)
... or panels do the Cree nominees have a majority (s. 22.6.2 and s. 22.6.5). In any event, these bod...22.5.6, and voting rights depend on which government has jurisdiction... in connection with the project and any cumulative environmental effects that are likely to result fr...
- Supreme Court of Canada

- Comparative politics of military base closures.
... imposition, especially when there is a majority rather than minority government, but this is parti... their fingerprints on a base closure by voting for it directly. So long as the number of affected... according to estimates, by 1998 the "cumulative savings of the four [BRAC] rounds completely offse...
- Canadian-American Public Policy
- Nbr. 2000, July 2000
- Polls and the bandwagon effect on the electoral process?
... other related hypotheses such as strategic voting. References to such research are not to attempt an..., but rather to acknowledge that its cumulative impact has been anything but definitive, whether w...Indeed the 1993 study shows a majority of cases with negative correlations, and the only ...
- Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Vol. 19 Nbr. 4, December 1996
- Steer or drift? Taking charge of Canada-US regulatory convergence.
...The vast majority of rules created by this dynamic process reflect s... veto by any member--to weighted majority voting. To the Court of Justice, they added a Court of Fi...This step would reduce the cumulative impact of unique regulatory.. .. requirements on i...
- C.D. Howe Institute Commentary
- Nbr. 2006, February 2006
- Egan v. Canada, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 513 (1995)
...The Federal Court of Appeal, in a majority decision, upheld the judgment. Held (L'Heureux-Dub...It suggests that the inexorable, cumulative effect on individuals or groups of behaviour that ...voting, mobility). Finally, does the distinction constitu...
- Supreme Court of Canada