The Business Roundtable, a voice for a significant number of major corporations in the United States, has issued a statement that reverses the “primacy” it formerly afforded to shareholders and endorses a commitment to corporate purpose. Shortly after the release of the statement, the Council of Institutional Investors, another major voice for market ...
The Societies Act, SBC 2015, c18 (the “Act”) came into force on November 28, 2016 and replaced the former Society Act, RSBC 1996, c 433. The Act included significant updates to provide more flexibility to how societies operate, while still protecting the public interest and ensuring accountability in their governance and management of funds.
Since the enactment of the
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