Foreword

• Author: Ronald J. Daniels
• Profession: Dean, Faculty of Law University of Toronto
• Pages: 19-19

FOREWORD

Canadian corporate

law is

messy.

The

federal

government

has its own

corporate

law

statute,

as

does each

of the ten

provinces. Although there

are

similarities among these statutes, there

are

also substantial

differ-

ences.

Not

only that,

but

provincial securities regulation also regulates

corporate governance,

and

needs

to be

accounted

for in any

treatment

of

the

Canadian corporate

law

regime. Further complicating matters

are

the

many liabilities

and

duties, based

on a

range

of

statutes

and

common

law

doctrines, that regulate corporate behaviour.

Tony

VanDuzer

has

written

an

indispensable

book

on the

structure

and

operation

of

Canadian partnership

and

corporate law.

Ever

mind-

ful

of the

complexities

of the

legal regime,

he

skilfully

navigates

his

treatise through

a

number

of

doctrinal areas

and

gives

the

reader

an

appreciation

of how the

system works.

He

does

so in a way

that

is

sen-

sitive

to the

distinct market

and

regulatory environment

in

which

Canadian corporations operate.

All

in

all,

this

book

is a

distinguished piece

of

scholarship,

and I

commend

it to

both practitioners

and

students

of

corporate law.

Ronald

J.

Daniels

Dean,

Faculty

of Law

University

of

Toronto