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Exhibit 1.2
 

 
BY-LAW NO. 2010-1
 
A BY-LAW RELATING GENERALLY TO THE
BUSINESS AND AFFAIRS OF
 

 
COMAMTECH INC.
 

 
CONTENTS
 
Article  1 INTERPRETATION
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Article  2 BUSINESS OF THE CORPORATION
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Article  3 DIRECTORS
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Article  4 COMMITTEES
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Article  5 OFFICERS
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Article  6 PROTECTION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND OTHERS
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Article  7 MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS
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Article  8 SHARES
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Article  9 DIVIDENDS AND LOANS TO EMPLOYEES
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Article  10 DIVISIONS AND DEPARTMENTS
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Article  11 NOTICES
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Article  12 EFFECTIVE DATE AND REPEAL
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ARTICLE  1
INTERPRETATION
 
1.1           Definitions – In the by-laws of the Corporation unless the context otherwise requires:
 
 
(a)
Act” means the Business Corporations Act, (Ontario) and any regulations made pursuant thereto, and any statute that may be substituted therefor, as from time to time amended, and any reference to a particular provision of the Act shall be deemed also to be a reference to any similar provision resulting from the amendment or replacement thereof;
 
 
(b)
appoint” includes “elect” and vice-versa;
 
 
(c)
Articles” means the articles of incorporation dated August 16, 2010, of the Corporation, as may from time to time be amended or restated;
 
 
(d)
board” means the board of directors of the Corporation;
 
 
(e)
by-law” means this by-law and all other by-laws of the Corporation from time to time in force and effect;
 
 
(f)
Corporation” means the corporation as incorporated by Certificate of Incorporation under the Act under the name of Comamtech Inc.;
 
 
(g)
meeting of shareholders” means an annual meeting of shareholders and a special meeting of shareholders; “special meeting of shareholders” means a meeting of any class or classes of shareholders and a special meeting of all shareholders entitled to vote at an annual meeting of shareholders;
 
 
(h)
non-business day” means Saturday, Sunday and any other day that is a holiday as defined in the Interpretation Act (Ontario) and any statute that may be substituted therefor, as from time to time amended;
 
 
(i)
recorded address” means, in the case of a shareholder, his address as recorded in the securities register of the Corporation; and in the case of joint shareholders, the addresses appearing in such securities register in respect of such joint holding or the first address so appearing if there is more than one; in the case of a director, his latest address as shown in the records of the Corporation or in the last notice of directors or notice of change of directors as filed in accordance with the Act; in the case of an officer or auditor, his address as recorded in the records of the Corporation; and in the case of the Corporation, its registered office;
 
 
(j)
contracts, documents or instruments in writing” include deeds, mortgages, hypothecs, charges, conveyances, transfers and assignments of property, real or personal, movable or immovable, agreements, releases, receipts and discharges for the payment of money or other obligations, conveyances, transfers and assignments of securities and all paper writings;
 
 
(k)
signing officer” means, in relation to any contracts, documents or instruments in writing, any person authorized to sign the same on behalf of the Corporation by Section 2.3 hereof or by any resolution passed pursuant thereto and, with respect to certificates for shares of the Corporation, means any person authorized to sign the same on behalf of the Corporation by or pursuant to Section 8.2 hereof;

 
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(l)
telephonic or electronic means” means telephone calls or messages, facsimile messages, electronic mail, transmission of data or information through automated touch-tone telephone systems, transmission of data or information through computer networks, any other similar means or any other means prescribed by the Act;
 
 
(m)
unanimous shareholder agreement” means a written agreement among all the shareholders of the Corporation or among all such shareholders and a person who is not a shareholder or a written declaration of the beneficial owner of all of the issued shares of the Corporation, that restricts in whole or in part the powers of the directors to manage the business and affairs of the Corporation, as from time to time amended.
 
1.2           Subject to Section 1.1 hereof, terms defined in the Act and used herein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning herein as in the Act.
 
1.3           In this by-law words importing the singular number only include the plural and vice-versa and words importing the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders.
 
1.4           The terms “herein”, “hereof”, “hereby” and similar expressions refer to this by-law, as from time to time amended, and not to any particular Section or other portion hereof.
 
1.5           The division of this by-law into Articles and Sections and the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation hereof.
 
ARTICLE  2
BUSINESS OF THE CORPORATION
 
2.1           Registered office – The registered office of the Corporation shall be at the place in Ontario from time to time specified in the Articles and at such location therein initially specified in the Articles and thereafter as the board may from time to time determine.
 
2.2           Financial Year - Until changed by resolution of the board, the financial year of the Corporation shall end on the 31st day of August in each and every year.
 
2.3           Execution of Instruments – Contracts, documents and instruments in writing required to be executed by the Corporation may be signed on behalf of the Corporation by two persons, one of whom holds the office of chairman of the board, managing director, president, a vice-president and the other of whom holds one of the said offices or the office of secretary, treasurer, assistant secretary or assistant treasurer or any other office created by by-law or by the board and all contracts, documents and instruments in writing so signed shall be binding upon the Corporation without any further authorization or formality. In addition, the board may at any time and from time to time by resolution direct the manner in which the person or persons by whom any particular contract, document or instrument in writing or any class of contracts, documents and instruments in writing may or shall be signed on behalf of the Corporation.
 
All shares, bonds, debentures, notes or other securities owned by the Corporation may be issued or held in the name of a nominee or nominees of the Corporation (and if issued or held in the name of more than one nominee shall be held in the names of the nominees jointly with right of survivorship) and if so issued or held shall be endorsed in blank with endorsement guaranteed in order to enable transfers to be completed and registrations to be effected.
 
2.4           Banking Arrangements – The banking business of the Corporation including, without limitation, the borrowing of money and the giving of security therefor, shall be transacted with such banks, trust companies and

 
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other persons as may from time to time be designated, appointed or authorized by or under the authority of the board. Such banking business, or any part thereof, shall be transacted by such person or persons (with or without the power to sub-delegate) under and in accordance with such agreements, instructions and delegations of power as the board may from time to time by resolution designate, direct or authorize.
 
2.5           Voting Rights in Other Bodies Corporate – The signing officers of the Corporation may execute and deliver proxies and arrange for the issuance of voting certificates or other evidence of the right to exercise the voting rights attaching to any securities held by the Corporation. Such instruments, certificates or other evidence shall be in favour of such person or persons as may be determined by the officers executing such proxies or arranging for the issuance of voting certificates or such other evidence of the right to exercise such voting rights. In addition, the board may from time to time by resolution direct the manner in which and the person or persons by whom any particular voting right or class of voting rights may or shall be exercised.
 
2.6           Shareholder Information – Subject to the provisions of the Act or any other applicable legislation or rule of law, no shareholder shall be entitled to discovery of any information respecting any details or conduct of the Corporation’s business which, in the opinion of the board, is not in the interests of the shareholders or of the Corporation to communicate to the public. The board may from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what time and place and under what conditions or regulations the accounts, records and documents of the Corporation or any of them shall be open to the inspection of shareholders and no shareholder shall have any right of inspecting any account, record or document of the Corporation except as conferred by the Act or any other applicable legislation or rule of law or as authorized by the board or by resolution passed at a meeting of shareholders.
 
ARTICLE  3
DIRECTORS
 
3.1           Number of Directors and Quorum – Until changed in accordance with the Act, the board shall consist of not less than one (1) nor more than eleven (11) directors, of whom at least twenty-five per cent (25%) shall be resident Canadian and at least one-third (1/3) of the directors shall not be officers or employees of the Corporation or any of its affiliates. The board shall be entitled from time to time by resolution to fix the number of directors within such limits and to establish the quorum of directors for the transaction of business at not less than a majority of the minimum number of directors specified in the Articles. A majority of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the board and subject to Section 3.7 hereof, no business shall be transacted at a meeting of the board unless a quorum is present.
 
3.2           Qualifications The following persons are disqualified from being directors of the Corporation:
 
 
(a)
anyone who is less than 18 years of age;
 
 
(b)
anyone who is of unsound mind and has been so found by a court in Canada or elsewhere;
 
 
(c)
a person who is not an individual; or
 
 
(d)
a person who has the status of a bankrupt.
 
A director need not be a shareholder of the Corporation.
 
3.3           Removal of Directors – Subject to the provisions of the Act, the shareholders may, by ordinary resolution passed at a meeting of shareholders, remove any director from office prior to the expiration of his term and the vacancy created by such removal may be filled at the same meeting of shareholders failing which it may be filled

 
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by the directors. Any director elected or appointed to fill a vacancy on the board shall hold office for the unexpired term of the position which is being filled by such election or appointment.
 
3.4           Vacation of Office – The office of director shall ipso facto be vacated when he dies or resigns, becomes disqualified from being a director under Section 3.2 hereof, or if he is removed from office in accordance with Section 3.3 hereof. The resignation of a director becomes effective at the time a written resignation is sent or delivered to the Corporation, or at the time specified in the resignation, whichever is the later.
 
3.5           Vacancies – Subject to the provisions of the Act, a quorum of directors may fill a vacancy among the directors, except a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number or minimum number of directors or from a failure of the shareholders to elect the number or minimum number of directors required by the Articles. In the absence of a quorum of the board, or if the vacancy has arisen from the failure of the shareholders to elect the number or minimum number of directors required by the Articles, the directors then in office shall forthwith call a special meeting of the shareholders to fill the vacancy and, if they fall to call a meeting or if there are no directors then in office, the meeting may be called by any shareholder.
 
3.6           Action by the Board – Subject to any unanimous shareholder agreement, the board shall manage the business and affairs of the Corporation. Except as provided by Sections 3.7 and 3.8 hereof, the powers of the directors may be exercised by resolution passed at a meeting of the board at which a quorum is present or by resolution in writing signed by all the directors entitled to vote on that resolution at a meeting of the board. Where there is a vacancy among the directors, the remaining directors may exercise all the powers of the board so long as a quorum remains in office.
 
3.7           Meetings by telephone – If all the directors of the Corporation present at or participating in the meeting consent, a meeting of directors or of a committee of directors may be held by means of such telephone, electronic or other communication facilities as permit all persons participating in the meeting to communicate with each other simultaneously and instantaneously, and a director participating in such a meeting by such means is deemed to be present at that meeting. Any such consent shall be effective whether given before or after the meeting to which it relates and may be given with respect to all meetings of the board and of committees of directors held while the directors giving such consent hold office.
 
3.8           Place of Meetings – Meetings of the board and of any committee of the board may be held at any place within or outside Ontario. In any financial year of the corporation a majority of the meetings of the board shall be held at a place within Canada.
 
3.9           Calling of Meetings – Meetings of the board shall be held from time to time at such locations at such times and on such days as the board, the chairman of the board, the president, the managing director, a vice-president who is a director or any two directors may determine. The secretary or the assistant secretary shall convene a meeting of the board on the direction of the chairman of the board, the president, a vice-president who is a director or any two directors.
 
3.10           Notice of Meeting – Notice of the date, time and place of each meeting of the board shall be given in the manner provided in Section 11.1 hereof to each director not less than three days before the date of the meeting if the notice is mailed and not less than 24 hours before the time when the meeting is to be held if the notice is given by telephonic or electronic means; provided always that a director may in any manner, and either before or after the meeting, waive notice of a meeting of the board or any committee of directors or any irregularity in any meeting; and attendance of a director at a meeting of the board or committee of directors shall constitute a waiver of notice of the meeting except where a director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the grounds that the meeting is not lawfully held. A meeting of directors may be held at any time without notice if all the directors are present, or if a quorum is present and those directors who are absent have

 
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consented in writing to the holding of a meeting in their absence. A notice of a meeting of directors need not specify the purpose of or the business to be transacted at the meeting except where the Act requires such purpose or business to be specified.
 
3.11           First Meeting of New Board – No notice of the first meeting of the board held following a meeting of shareholders at which directors are elected shall be necessary in order to legally constitute the meeting, provided that a quorum of directors is present and further provided that such meeting is held not later than 3 days following such meeting of shareholders.
 
3.12           Adjourned Meetings – Notice of an adjourned meeting of directors is not required to be given if the time and the place of the adjourned meeting is announced at the original meeting.
 
3.13           Regular Meetings – The directors may appoint a day or days in any month or months for regular meetings of the board at a stated place and hour. A copy of any resolution of the board fixing the place and time of such regular meetings shall be sent to each director forthwith after being passed, but no other notice shall be required for any such regular meeting except where the Act requires a matter proposed to be dealt with at that meeting to be specified.
 
3.14           Chairman – The chairman of any meeting of the board shall be the chairman of the board, or in his absense or at his request, the president if he is a director, or in his absence or at his request, the managing director, or in his absence or at his request or if there is no managing director, a vice-president who is a director. If no such person is present, the directors present shall choose one of their number to be the chairman.
 
3.15           Votes to Govern – At all meetings of the board, every question to be decided shall be decided upon by a majority of the votes cast on the question. In case of an equality of votes, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
 
3.16           Remuneration of Directors – The directors shall be paid such remuneration for their services, if any, as the board may from time to time by resolution determine and such remuneration shall be in addition to any salary or professional fees paid to any director who is also an officer or employee of the Corporation or who is counsel to or otherwise serves the Corporation in a professional capacity. The board may also by resolution from time to time award special remuneration out of the funds of the Corporation to any director who performs any special work or service for, or undertakes any special mission on behalf of, the Corporation outside the work or services ordinarily required of a director by the Corporation. In addition, the directors shall also be reimbursed in respect of their out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending board, committee and shareholders meetings, or otherwise in respect of the performance by them of their duties as directors, as the board may from time to time determine.
 
3.17           Submission of Contracts, Acts and Transactions for Shareholder Approval – The board may, in its discretion, submit any contracts, act or transaction for approval, ratification or confirmation at any meeting of shareholders called for the purpose of considering the same, and, subject to the provisions of the Act, any such contract, act or transaction that shall be approved, ratified or confirmed by ordinary resolution at any such meeting (unless any different or additional requirement is imposed by the Act or by the Articles or by any other by-laws of the Corporation) shall be as valid and binding upon the Corporation and upon all the shareholders as though it had been approved, ratified or confirmed by every shareholder of the Corporation.

 
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ARTICLE  4
COMMITTEES
 
4.1           Executive Committee – The board, whenever it consists of more than six, may, from time to time, elect from among its members an executive committee consisting of not fewer than 3 directors of whom a majority shall be resident Canadians and may delegate to the executive committee, subject to such restrictions, if any, as the board may impose from time to time, any powers of the board except those which, under the Act, no committee of directors has authority to exercise. Each member of the executive committee shall serve during the pleasure of the board, and, in any event, only so long as he shall be a director. The board may fill vacancies in the executive committee by election from among its number. If and whenever a vacancy shall exist in the executive committee, the remaining members may exercise all its powers so long as a quorum remains in office.
 
4.2           Audit Committee – The board shall appoint annually from among its members an audit committee composed of not less than 3 directors, a majority of whom shall be resident Canadians and shall not be officers or employees of the Corporation or any of its affiliates. The auditors of the Corporation shall be sent notice of every meeting of the audit committee and shall be entitled to attend and be heard thereat. The audit committee shall have the duties prescribed by the Act and such other powers and duties as the board may from time to time confer upon it.
 
4.3           Other Committees – In addition to the provisions of Sections 4.1 and 4.2, the board may appoint such other committees from among its members, however designated, and delegate to any such committee any of the powers of the board except those which pertain to items which, under the Act, a committee of the board has no authority to exercise. A majority of the members of any such committee shall be resident Canadians.
 
4.4           Advisory Bodies – The board may from time to time appoint such advisory bodies from among its members as it may deem advisable. A majority of the members of every such committee shall be resident Canadians.
 
4.5           Transaction of Business – Subject to the provisions of Sections 3.7 and 3.8 hereof, the powers of a committee of directors shall be exercised by resolution passed at a meeting at which a quorum is present or by resolution in writing signed by all directors entitled to vote on that resolution at a meeting of that committee. Subject to the provisions of the Act and this Article  4 and unless otherwise determined by the board, each committee shall have power to fix its quorum at not less than the majority of its members, to elect its chairman and to regulate its procedures.
 
ARTICLE  5
OFFICERS
 
5.1           Appointment – At the first meeting of the board following each annual meeting of shareholders at which directors are elected, the board may appoint from among their number a chairman of the board and shall also appoint a president. In default of such appointment, the then incumbents, subject to the provisions of Section 5.9 hereof in the case of the chairman of the board, shall hold office until their successors are appointed.

 
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From time to time the board shall also appoint a secretary and, if it shall see fit, may also appoint one or more vice-presidents (to which title may be added words indicating seniority or function) a treasurer, a general manager and such other officers as the board deems appropriate, including one or more assistants to any of the officers so appointed. The board may specify the duties of and, in accordance with this by-law and subject to the provisions of the Act, delegate to such officers power to manage or supervise the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation. One person may hold more than one office and, save as herein otherwise provided with respect to the chairman of the board, an officer may but need not be a director. If the same person holds the office of secretary and treasurer he may, but need not, be known as the secretary/treasurer. Vacancies occurring from time to time in any office may be filled by the board.
 
5.2           Chairman of the Board – The board may from time to time also appoint a chairman of the board who shall be a director. If appointed, the board may assign to him any of the powers and duties that are by any provisions of this by-law assigned to the managing director or to the president; and he shall have such other powers and duties as the board may specify.
 
5.3           President/Chief Executive Officer – The board may by resolution appoint the president as the chief executive officer of the Corporation and may at any time revoke such appointment. If not so appointed, the president shall be the chief operating officer of the Corporation. As chief operating officer, the president shall manage the business and affairs of the Corporation under the general direction of the chairman of the board, and in the absence or inability to act of the chairman of the board, the president shall be vested with and may exercise all of the powers and perform all the duties of the chairman of the board; provided, however, that unless he is a director he shall not preside as chairman of any meeting of the board or at any committee of directors.
 
5.4           Managing Director – The board may from time to time also appoint a managing director who shall be resident Canadian and a director. If appointed, the board may by resolution appoint him the chief executive officer of the Corporation and may at any time revoke such appointment; he shall have such powers and duties as the board may specify. During the absence or disability of the president, or if no president has been appointed, the managing director shall also have the powers and duties of that office.
 
5.5           Vice-President – Each vice-president shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the board may from time to time prescribe or as the chairman of the board or the president may from time to time delegate to him. During the absence, inability or refusal to act of both the chairman of the board, president, and managing director, or if the offices of both chairman of the board, president and managing director shall be vacant, then during such absence, inability or refusal to act or so long as such vacancy exists in such offices, all of the duties of the chairman of the board, of the president, and of the managing director may be performed and their powers exercised by the vice-president, or if there are more than one, by vice-president in order of seniority (as determined by the board) save that no vice-president who is not a director shall preside at any meeting of the board or any committee of directors. If a vice-president exercises any such duty or power, the absence, inability or refusal to act or vacancies in the offices of the chairman of the board, the president and the managing director shall be presumed with reference thereto.
 
5.6           Secretary – The secretary shall attend and be the secretary of all meetings of the board, shareholders and committees of directors and shall enter or cause to be entered in the records kept for that purpose minutes of all proceedings thereat. He shall give or cause to be given, as and when instructed, all notices to shareholders, directors, officers, auditors and members of committees of directors. He shall, except when some other officer or agent has been appointed for that purpose, be custodian of all books, papers, records, contracts, documents and other instruments belonging to the Corporation and he shall have such other powers and duties as the board, the chairman of the board or the president may from time to time prescribe.
 
5.7           Treasurer – Subject to the provisions of any resolution of the board, the treasurer, if one be appointed, shall

 
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be responsible for the control of the funds of the Corporation, for all banking arrangements of the Corporation and for the safe-keeping of securities, shall keep or cause to be kept full and accurate books of account and accounting records as may be required by applicable law and shall render to the board as and when required of him an account of all his transactions as treasurer and of the financial position of the Corporation. In addition, the treasurer shall have such other powers and duties as the board, the chairman of the board or the president may from time to time prescribe.
 
5.8           Powers and Duties of Other Officers – The powers and duties of all other officers of the Corporation shall be such as the terms of their engagement call for or as the board or chief executive officer may from time to time prescribe. Any of the powers and/or duties of an officer to whom an assistant has been appointed may be exercised and performed by such assistant, unless the board or the chief executive officer otherwise directs.
 
5.9           Variation of powers and duties – The board may from time to time, subject to the provisions of the Act, vary, add to or limit the powers and duties of any officer.
 
5.10           Term of Office – The board, in its discretion, may remove any officer of the Corporation, without prejudice to such officer’s right under any employment contract or in law. Save as aforesaid, each officer appointed by the board shall hold office until his successor is appointed; provided, that, the term of office of the chairman of the board shall expire if and when the person occupying that office ceases to be a director.
 
5.11           Agents and Attorneys – The board shall have the power from time to time to appoint agents or attorneys for the Corporation in or outside Canada with such powers of management or otherwise, including the power to sub-delegate, as the board may deem fit.
 
5.12           Fidelity Bonds – The board may require such officers, employees and agents of the Corporation as the board deems advisable to furnish bonds for the faithful discharge of their powers and duties, in such form and with such surety as the board may from time to time determine.
 
ARTICLE  6
PROTECTION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND OTHERS
 
6.1           Fiduciary Obligation
 
 
(a)
With respect to a material contract between the Corporation and one or more director thereof or between the Corporation and another person of which the director of the Corporation is a director or in which he has a material interest, such material contract is neither void nor voidable by reason only of that relationship or by reason only that a director with an interest in the contract is present at or is counted to determine the presence of a quorum at a meeting of directors or committee of directors that authorized the contract, if the director disclosed his interest in accordance with the Act and the contract was approved by the directors or the shareholders and it was reasonable and fair to the Corporation at the time it was approved.
 
 
(b)
With respect to a non-material contract or transaction between the Corporation and any director, the following shall apply. No director shall be disqualified by reason of being a director from, or be required to vacate his office as a director by reason of, holding any other office or place of profit with or with respect to the Corporation or any body corporate in which the Corporation is or proposes to become a shareholder, or by reason of contracting with or being otherwise in any way directly or indirectly interested or concerned in any contract or arrangement made or proposed to be made with the Corporation, nor shall any director be liable to account to the Corporation or any of its shareholders or creditors for any profit arising from any such office or place of profit; and,

 
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subject always to the provisions in that regard contained in the Act, no contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Corporation in which any director shall be in any way directly or indirectly interested shall be void or voidable, and no director shall be liable to account to the Corporation or any of its shareholders or creditors for any profit realized by or from any such contract or arrangement by reason of any fiduciary relationship.
 
 
(c)
No director shall be obliged to make any declaration of interest with respect to a contract or proposed contract with the Corporation in which such director is in any way directly or indirect y interested except such declaration as is required by the Act, nor, subject to such provisions, shall any director be obliged to refrain from voting in respect of any such contract.
 
 
(d)
For the purposes of this Section 6.1, the term “director” shall include both a director and an officer. The provisions of sub-sections 6.1(b) and 6.1(c) are in supplement of and not by way of limitation upon the rights and obligations in that regard conferred upon directors by the Act.
 
6.2           Limitation of Liability – Every director and officer of the Corporation in exercising his powers and discharging his duties shall act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Corporation and exercise the care, diligence and skill that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances. Subject to the foregoing and except as otherwise provided in the Act, no director or officer for the time being of the Corporation shall be liable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other director, officer or employee or for joining in any receipt or act for conformity, or for any loss, damage or expense happening to the Corporation through the insufficiency or deficiency of title to any property acquired by, for, or on behalf of the Corporation, or for the insufficiency or deficiency of any security in or upon which any of the monies of the Corporation shall be placed out or invested, or for any loss or damage arising from the bankruptcy, insolvency or tortuous acts of any person, including any person with whom any monies, securities or effects shall be lodged or deposited, or for any loss, conversion, misapplication or misappropriation of, or any damage resulting from any dealings with, the monies, securities or other assets of the Corporation, or for any other loss, damage or misfortune whatsoever which may happen in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto, unless the same are occasioned by his own wilful neglect or default; provided that nothing in Section 6.2 shall relieve any director or officer, in the exercising of his powers and in the discharging of his duties, from the duty to act in accordance with the Act and the regulations thereunder or from liability for any breach thereof.
 
6.3           Indemnification – Subject to the limitations contained in the Act, the Corporation shall indemnify and save harmless every director or officer of the Corporation, former director or officer of the Corporation and every person who acts or acted at the Corporation’ s request as a director or officer of a body corporate of which the Corporation is or was a shareholder or creditor, and their respective heirs and legal representatives, from and against any liability and all costs, charges and expenses, including any amounts paid to settle an action or to satisfy a judgment, reasonably incurred by him in respect of any civil, criminal or administrative action or proceeding to which he is made a party by reason of being or having been a director or officer of the Corporation or such body corporate, if
 
 
(a)
he acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Corporation; and
 
 
(b)
in the case of a criminal or administrative action or proceeding that is enforced by a monetary penalty, he had reasonable grounds for believing that his conduct was lawful.
 
The Corporation shall also indemnify such person in such other circumstances as the Act permits or requires. Nothing in this by-law shall limit the right of any person entitled to indemnify to claim indemnity apart from the provisions of this by-law.

 
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6.4           Insurance – Subject to the limitations contained in the Act, the Corporation may purchase and maintain such insurance for the benefit of its directors and officers, former directors and officers and any person who acts or acted at the Corporation’s request as a director or officer of a body corporate of which the Corporation is or was a shareholder or creditor and their respective heirs and legal representatives, as the directors may from time to time determine.
 
ARTICLE  7
MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS
 
7.1           Annual Meetings – The annual meeting of shareholders shall be held at such time, on such day, in each year and, subject to Section 7.3 hereof, at such place as the board, the chairman of the board or the president may from time to time determine, for the purpose of considering the financial statements and reports required by the Act to be placed before the annual meeting, electing directors, appointing auditors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting. The board shall call an annual meeting not later than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding meeting.
 
7.2           Special Meetings – The board, the chairman of the board, the president, the managing director or a vice-president shall have the power to call a special meeting of the shareholders at any time.
 
7.3           Place of Meetings – Subject to the articles and any unanimous shareholder agreement, a meeting of shareholders of the Corporation shall be held at such place in or outside Ontario as the directors determine or, in the absence of such a determination, at the place where the registered office of the Corporation is located.
 
7.4           Notice of Meetings – Notice of the time and place of each meeting of shareholders shall be given in the manner provided in Section 11.1 hereof not less than 21 nor more than 50 days before the date of the meeting to each director, to the auditor of the Corporation, if any, and to each shareholder who, at the close of business on the record date for notice or, if no record date for notice is fixed, at the close of business on the day preceding the day on which notice is given, is entered in the securities register as the holder of one or more shares carrying the right to vote at the meeting. Notice of a meeting of shareholders called for any purpose other than consideration of financial statements and auditor’s report, election of directors and re-appointment of the incumbent auditor shall state the nature of such business in sufficient detail to permit the shareholder to form a reasoned judgment thereon and shall state the text of any special resolution to be submitted to the meeting.
 
7.5           Meetings Without Notice – A shareholder entitled to vote thereat and any other person entitled to attend a meeting of shareholders may in any manner, and either before or after the meeting, waive notice of a meeting of shareholders, and attendance of any such person at a meeting of shareholders is a waiver of notice of the meeting, except where he attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the grounds that the meeting is not lawfully called. At such a meeting any business may be transacted which the Corporation at a meeting of shareholders may transact. If the meeting is held at a place outside Canada, shareholders not present or duly represented, but who have waived notice of or otherwise consented to such meeting, shall also be deemed to have consented to the meeting being held at such place.

 
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7.6           List of Shareholders Entitled to Notice – For every meeting of shareholders, the Corporation shall prepare a list of shareholders entitled to receive notice of the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order and showing the number of shares entitled to vote at the meeting held by each shareholder. If a record date for the meeting is fixed pursuant to Section 7.7 hereof, the shareholders listed shall be those registered at the close of business on such record date. If no record date is fixed, the shareholders listed shall be those registered at the close of business on the day immediately preceding the day on which notice of the meeting is given. The list shall be available for examination by any shareholder during usual business hours at the registered office of the Corporation or at the place where the securities register is maintained and at the place where the meeting is held. Where a separate list of shareholders has not been prepared, the names of persons appearing in the securities register at the requisite time as the holder of one or more shares carrying the right to vote at such meetings shall be deemed to be a list of shareholders.
 
7.7           Record Date for Notice – For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to receive notice of a meeting of shareholders, the directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for such determination of shareholders, but the record date shall not precede by more than 60 days or by less than 30 days the date on which the meeting is to be held. If a record dated is fixed, unless notice of the record date is waived by every holder of share of the class or series affected whose name is set our in the securities register at the close of business on the day the directors fix the record date, notice of every such record date shall be given, not less than 7 days before such record date, by newspaper advertisement and to each stock exchange in Canada on which the shares of the Corporation are listed for trading, all in the manner provided in the Act. If no record date is so fixed, the record date for the determination of the shareholders entitled to notice of meeting shall be the close of business on the day immediately preceding the day on which the notice is given or, if no notice is given, the day on which the meeting is held.
 
7.8           Chairman, Secretary and Scrutineers – At any meeting of shareholders, the chairman of the board or the president or the managing director, whoever is the chief executive officer of the Corporation, or in his absence or at his request, another of them, or in the absence of both such others, a vice-president or a director who is a shareholder shall be chairman. If no such person is present within 15 minutes after the time fixed for holding the meeting the persons present and entitled to vote at the meeting shall choose one of their number to be chairman. The secretary of the Corporation shall be the secretary of any meeting of shareholders but, if the secretary is not present, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint some person, who need not be a shareholder, to act as secretary of the meeting. If desired, one or more scrutineers, who need not be shareholders of the Corporation, may be appointed by resolution or by the chairman of the meeting with the consent of the meeting.
 
7.9           Persons Entitled to be Present – The only persons entitled to be present at a meeting of shareholders shall be those entitled to vote thereat, the directors and auditors, if any, of the Corporation and others who, although not entitled to vote, are entitled or required under the Act or the Articles or by-laws to be present at the meeting. Any other person may be admitted only on the invitation of the chairman of the meeting or with the consent of the meeting.
 
7.10           Quorum – A quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of shareholders shall be two or more shareholders present in person or represented by proxy holding at least 20% of the total number of votes attaching to all shares carrying the right to vote at that meeting.  If a quorum is present at the opening of any meeting of shareholders, the shareholders present or represented by proxy may proceed with the business of the meeting notwithstanding that a quorum is not present throughout the meeting.  If a quorum is not present within 30 minutes of the opening of the meeting, the meeting may be adjourned to such date, and to such time and place as may be designated by the Chairman of the meeting.  At the adjourned meeting, the holders of shares carrying a right to vote at the meeting, whether or not they hold at least 20% of the outstanding votes attaching to all shares carrying the right to vote at that meeting and whether or not they were present at the original meeting shall constitute a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was originally called.

 
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7.11           Right to Vote – Subject to the provisions of the Act as to authorized representatives of shareholders that are bodies corporate or associations, at any meeting of shareholders every person who is named in the list referred to in Section 7.6 shall be entitled to vote the shares shown thereon opposite his name except to the extent hereafter provided where the Corporation has fixed a record date in respect of such meeting pursuant to Section 7.7. In that event, if a person named in such list has transferred any of his shares after such record date and if the transferee, upon producing properly endorsed certificates evidencing such shares or otherwise establishing to the Corporation that he owns such shares, demands not later than 10 days before the meeting that his name be included in the list, the transferee shall be entitled to vote the transferred shares at the meeting. In the absence of a list prepared as aforesaid in respect of any meeting of shareholders, every person shall be entitled to vote at that meeting who at the time of such meeting is entered in the securities register as the holder of one or more shares carrying the right to vote at that meeting.
 
7.12           Proxies – Every shareholder entitled to vote at a meeting of shareholders may by means of a proxy appoint a proxyholder, or one or more alternate proxyholders, who need not be shareholders, to attend and act at the meeting in the manner and to the extent authorized and with the authority conferred by the proxy. A proxy shall be in writing executed by the shareholder or his attorney and shall conform with the requirements of the Act.
 
7.13           Time for Deposit of Proxies – The board may specify in a notice calling a meeting of shareholders a time not exceeding 48 hours, exclusive of non-business days, preceding the meeting or an adjournment thereof before which time proxies to be used at the meeting must be deposited. A proxy shall be acted upon only if, prior to the time so specified, it shall have been deposited with the Corporation or an agent thereof specified in such notice or, if no such time is specified in such notice, it has been received by the secretary of the Corporation or by the chairman of the meeting or any adjournment thereof prior to the time of voting.
 
7.14           Joint Holders – If two or more persons hold shares jointly, anyone of them present in person or represented by proxy at a meeting of shareholders may, in the absence of the other or others, vote the shares; but if two or more of those persons are present in person or represented by proxy and vote, they shall vote as one of the shares jointly held by them.
 
7.15           Votes to Govern – At any meeting of shareholders, every question, unless otherwise required by the Articles or by-laws or by the Act, shall be determined by the majority of the votes cast on the question. In case of an equality of votes either upon a show of hands or upon a poll, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
 
7.16           Show of Hands – Subject to the Act, every question at the meeting of shareholders shall be decided by a show of hands unless a ballot thereon is required or demanded as hereinafter provided. Upon a show of hands every person who is present and entitled to vote shall have one vote. Whenever a vote by a show of hands shall have been taken upon a question, unless a ballot thereon is so required or demanded, a declaration by the chairman of the meeting that the vote upon the question has been carried or carried by a particular majority or not carried and an entry to that effect in the minutes of the meeting shall be prima facie evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against any resolution or other proceeding in respect of the said question, and the result of the vote so taken shall be the decision of the shareholders upon the said question.
 
7.17           Ballots – On any question proposed for consideration at a meeting of shareholders, and whether or not a show of hands has been taken thereon, any shareholder or proxy holder entitled to vote at the meeting may require or demand a ballot. A ballot so required or demanded shall be taken in such manner as the chairman shall direct. A requirement or demand for a ballot may be withdrawn at any time prior to the taking of the ballot. If a ballot is taken, each person present shall be entitled with respect to each share which he is entitled to vote at the meeting

 
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upon the question, to one vote or such greater number of votes as may be provided by the Articles, and the result of the ballot so taken shall be the decision of the shareholders upon the said question.
 
7.18           Adjournment – If a meeting of shareholders is adjourned by one or more adjournments for less than 30 days, it shall not be necessary to give notice of the adjourned meeting, other than by announcement at the earliest meeting that is adjourned. If a meeting of shareholders is adjourned by one or more adjournments for an aggregate of 30 days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as for an original meeting. Any business may be brought before or dealt with at the adjourned meeting which may have been brought before or dealt with at the original meeting.
 
7.19           Resolution in Writing – A resolution in writing signed by all the shareholders entitled to vote on that resolution at a meeting of shareholders is as valid as if it had been passed at a meeting of the shareholders unless a written statement with respect to the subject matter of the resolution is submitted by a director or the auditor, if any, in accordance with the Act.
 
ARTICLE  8
SHARES
 
8.1           Allotment and Issue – Subject to the Act, the Articles, and to any pre-emptive rights provided by the Articles, the board may from time to time allot or grant options to purchase the whole or any part of the authorized and unissued shares of the Corporation at such times and to such persons and for such consideration as the board shall determine, provided that no share shall be issued until it is fully paid as provided by the Act. Shares issued by the Corporation are non-assessable and the holders thereof are not liable to the Corporation or its creditors in respect thereof.
 
8.2           Share Certificates – Every holder of one or more shares of the Corporation shall be entitled, at his option, to a share certificate, or to a non-transferable written acknowledgment of his right to obtain a share certificate, stating the number and class or series of shares held by him as shown on the securities register of the Corporation. Subject to the provisions of the Act in that behalf, share certificates (and the form of stock transfer power on the reverse side thereof) and acknowledgements of the shareholder’s right to a share certificate, respectively, shall be in such form or forms as the board shall from time to time by resolution approve. Unless the board by resolution otherwise directs, share certificates shall be signed by anyone of the chairman of the board, the president, the managing director, a vice-president or a director together with any one of the secretary, treasurer, and assistant secretary, an assistant treasurer or another director of the Corporation, and need not be under the corporate seal. Unless the board by resolution otherwise determines, where the Corporation has appointed a transfer agent and/or registrar and/or branch transfer agent for shares of the Corporation, certificates evidencing shares in respect of which such appointment or appointments has or have been made shall not be valid unless countersigned by or on behalf of such transfer agent and/or registrar and/or branch transfer agent. The signature of the chairman of the board, the president, the managing director, a vice-president or a director and, in the case of share certificates which are not valid unless countersigned by or on behalf of a transfer agent and/or registrar and/ or branch transfer agent, the signatures of both signing officers may be printed or otherwise mechanically reproduced thereon in facsimile and every such facsimile signature shall for all purposes be deemed to be the signature of the person whose signature it reproduces and shall be binding upon the Corporation. A share certificate executed as aforesaid shall be valid notwithstanding that one or both of the persons whose facsimile signature appears thereon have ceased to be directors or officers of the Corporation at the date of its issue.
 
8.3           Securities Register – A central securities register of the Corporation shall be kept at the registered office of the Corporation or at such other office or place in Ontario as may from time to time be designated by resolution of the board.

 
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8.4           Registration of Transfer – Subject to the provisions of the Act, no transfer of shares shall be registered in a securities register except upon presentation of the certificate representing such share with the transfer endorsed thereon or delivered therewith duly executed in accordance with the Act by the registered holder or by his attorney or successor duly appointed, together with such reasonable assurance or evidence of signature, identification and authority to transfer as the board may from time to time prescribe, upon payment of all applicable taxes and any fees prescribed by the board, upon compliance with such restrictions on transfer, if any, as are authorized by the Articles and upon satisfaction of any lien referred to in Section 8.7 hereof.
 
8.5           Transfer Agents and Registrars – The board may from time to time by resolution appoint one or more transfer agents and/or branch transfer agents registrars and/or branch registrars (which may but need not be the same person) for the shares and/or other securities (or any class or classes thereof) issued by the Corporation in registered form and may provide for the registration of transfers of such shares and other securities in one or more places and such transfer agents and/or branch transfer agents and/or registrars and/or branch registrars shall keep all necessary books and registers of the Corporation for the registration of such securities (or the class or classes thereof) in respect of which any such appointment has been made. The board may at any time terminate any such appointment.
 
8.6           Replacement of Share Certificates – The board or any officers or any agent designated by resolution of the board may in its or his discretion direct the issue of a new share certificate in lieu of and upon cancellation of a share certificate that has been mutilated or in substitution for a share certificate claimed to have been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken on payment of such reasonable fee and on such terms as to indemnity, reimbursement of expenses and evidence of loss and of title as the board may from time to time by resolution prescribe, whether generally or in a particular case.
 
8.7           Lien for Indebtedness – Subject to Section 40(2) of the Act, the Corporation shall have a lien on shares registered in the name of the shareholder or his legal representative for any debt of that shareholder to the Corporation. Such lien may be enforced, subject to any other provisions of the Articles and to any unanimous shareholder agreement, by the sale of the share thereby affected or by any other action, suit, remedy or proceeding authorized or permitted by law or by equity and, pending such enforcement, the transfer of whole or any part of such shares may be refused.
 
8.8           Non-recognition of Trusts – Subject to the Act, the Corporation shall be entitled to treat as absolute owner of any share the person in whose name the share is registered in a securities register as if that person had full legal capacity and authority to exercise all rights of ownership, irrespective of any knowledge or notice to the contrary or any indication to the contrary in the Corporation’s records or on the share certificate.
 
8.9           Joint Shareholders – If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any share, the Corporation shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate or written acknowledgement of a right to obtain a share certificate in respect thereof, and delivery of such certificate or written acknowledgement to any such persons shall be sufficient delivery to all of them. Anyone of such persons may give effectual receipts for the certificate issued or written acknowledgement delivered in respect thereof or for any dividend, bonus, return of capital or other money payable or warrant or right issuable in respect of such share.
 
8.10           Deceased Shareholders – In the event of the death of a holder, or of one of the joint holders, of any share, the Corporation shall not be required to make any entry in the securities register in respect thereof or to make payment of any dividends thereon except upon production of all such documents as may be required by law and upon compliance with reasonable requirements of the Corporation and its transfer agents.
 
8.11           Commissions – The board may from time to time authorize the Corporation to pay a reasonable commission to any person in consideration of his purchasing or agreeing to purchase shares of the Corporation,

 
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whether from the Corporation or from any other person, or procuring or agreeing to procure purchasers for any such shares.
 
ARTICLE  9
DIVIDENDS AND LOANS TO EMPLOYEES
 
9.1           Dividends – Subject to the provisions of the Act and the Articles, the board may from time to time by resolution declare and the Corporation may pay dividends on issued and outstanding shares of the Corporation to the holders thereof according to their respective rights and interest in the Corporation. Dividends may be paid in money or property or by issuing fully paid shares of the Corporation.
 
9.2           Dividend Cheques – A dividend payable in money may be paid by cheque drawn on the Corporation’s bankers or anyone or more of them to the order of each registered holder of shares of the class or series in respect of which it has been declared and mailed by prepaid ordinary mail to such registered holder at his recorded address, unless such holder otherwise directs. The board may by resolution appoint one or more dividend disbursing agents for such purpose and may empower such agent or agents to direct, make and sign all cheques on special dividend accounts opened for such purpose with the Corporation’s bankers. In the case of joint holders the cheque shall, unless such joint holders otherwise direct, be made payable to the order of all such joint holders and mailed to them at their recorded address. The mailing of such cheque as aforesaid, unless the same is not paid on due presentation, shall satisfy and discharge the liability for the dividend to the extent of the sum represented thereby plus the amount of any tax which the Corporation is required to and does withhold.
 
9.3           Non-receipt of Cheques – In the event of non-receipt of any dividend cheque by the person to whom it is sent as aforesaid, the Corporation, shall issue or cause to be issued to such person a replacement cheque for a like amount in like currency on such terms as to indemnity, reimbursement of expenses and evidence of non-receipt and of title as the board may from time to time by resolution prescribe, whether generally or in any particular case.
 
9.4           Record Date for Dividends and Rights – The board may by resolution fix in advance a date, preceding by not more than 50 days for the payment of any dividend or the date for the issue of any warrant or other evidence of right to subscribe for securities of the Corporation, as a record date for the determination of the persons entitled to receive payment of such dividends or to exercise such right to subscribe, as the case may be. Notice of each such record date shall be given, not less than 7 days before such record date, by newspaper advertisement and to each stock exchange in Canada on which the shares of the Corporation are listed for trading, all in the manner provided in the Act. Where no record date is fixed in advance as aforesaid, the record date for the determination of the persons entitled to receive payment of any dividend or to exercise the right to subscribe for securities of the Corporation, as the case may be, shall be at the close of business on the date on which the resolution relating to such dividend or right to subscribe is passed by the board.
 
9.5           Unclaimed Dividends – Any dividend unclaimed after a period of six years from the date on which the same has been declared to be payable shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Corporation.
 
9.6           Loans to Employees – The board may authorize the Corporation from time to time to,
 
 
(a)
make loans to bona fide full-time employees of the Corporation whether or not they are shareholders or directors, with a view to enabling them to purchase or erect dwelling houses for their own occupation, and take from such employees mortgages or other security for the repayment of such loans;

 
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(b)
make loans to bona fide employees of the Corporation, other than directors, whether or not they are shareholders, with a view to enabling them to purchase or subscribe for shares of the Corporation to be held by them by way of beneficial ownership;
 
 
(c)
or provide, in accordance with a scheme for the time being in force, money by way of loan for the purchase of or subscription for shares of the Corporation by trustees, to be held by or for the benefit of bona fide employees of the Corporation, whether or not they are shareholders or directors.
 
ARTICLE  10
DIVISIONS AND DEPARTMENTS
 
10.1           Authority to Create and Transact Business by Divisions – The board may cause the business and operations of the Corporation or any part thereof to be divided or segregated into one or more divisions upon such basis, including without limitation, character or type of operation, geographical territory, product or service, as the board may consider appropriate. The board may also cause the business and operations of any such division to be further divided into sub-units and the business and operations of any such divisions or sub-units to be consolidated upon such basis as the board may consider appropriate in each case.
 
10.2           Name of Division – Any division or its sub-unit may be designated by such name as the board may from time to time determine and, subject to the Act, may transact business of any kind and do all acts and things under such name.
 
10.3           Officers of Divisions – From time to time the board may appoint one of more officers for any division, prescribe their official titles, powers and duties and settle their terms of employment and remuneration. The board, or if authorized by the board, the chief executive officer, may remove at his pleasure any officer so appointed, without prejudice to such officer’s rights under any employment contract. Officers of divisions or their sub-units shall not, as such, be officers of the Corporation.
 
ARTICLE  11
NOTICES
 
11.1           Method of giving Notice – Any notice (which term includes any communication or document) required or permitted to be given (which term includes sent, delivered or served) pursuant to the Act, the regulations thereunder, the Articles, the by-laws or otherwise, to any shareholder, director, officer, auditor or member of a committee of directors shall be well and sufficiently given if delivered personally to the person to whom it is to be given or if delivered to his recorded address or if mailed to him at his recorded address by prepaid mail or sent to him at his recorded address by any means of prepaid recorded communication. Any notice so delivered shall be deemed to have been given and received when it is delivered personally or to the recorded address as aforesaid; and a notice so mailed shall be deemed to have been given and received when deposited in a post office or public letter box in Canada provided that a notice or document sent by prepaid mail to a shareholder or a director at his recorded address shall be deemed to be received by him in the ordinary course of mail unless there are reasonable grounds for believing that the shareholder or director did not receive the notice or document at that time or at all; and a notice so given by any means of recorded communication shall be deemed to have been given and received when dispatched or delivered to the appropriate communication company or agency or its representative for dispatch. The secretary may change or cause to be changed the recorded address of any shareholder, director, officer, auditor or member of a committee of directors in accordance with any information received by him and believed by him to be reliable.
 
11.2           Notice to Joint Shareholders – If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any share, notice to one of such persons shall be sufficient notice to all of them.

 
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11.3           Undelivered Notices – If any notice given to a shareholder pursuant to Section 11.1 hereof is returned on 3 consecutive occasions because he cannot be found, the Corporation shall not be required to give any further notices to such shareholder until he informs the Corporation in writing of his new address.
 
11.4           Computation of Time – In computing the date when notice must be given under any provision of the Act, the Articles or by-laws of the Corporation requiring a specified number of days’ notice of any meeting or other event, the date of giving the notice shall be included and the date of the meeting or other event shall be excluded.
 
11.5           Omissions and Errors – None of the accidental omissions to give any notice to any shareholder, director, officer, auditor or member of a committee of directors, the non-receipt of any notice by any such person, or any error in any notice not affecting the substance thereof shall invalidate any action taken at any meeting held pursuant to such notice or otherwise founded thereon.
 
11.6           Persons Entitled by Death or Operation of Law – Every person who, by operation of law, transfer, death of a shareholder or other means whatsoever, shall become entitled to any share, shall be bound by every notice in respect of such share which shall have been duly given to the shareholder from whom he derives his title to such share prior to his name and address being entered on the securities register (whether such notice was given before or after the happening of the event upon which he became so entitled) and prior to his furnishing to the Corporation the proof or authority or evidence of his entitlement prescribed by the Act.
 
11.7           Proof of Service – A certificate of the Secretary or other officer of the Corporation or of any agent of the Corporation as to the mailing or delivery or sending of any notice shall be conclusive evidence thereof.
 
11.8           Waiver of Notice – When a notice or document is required by the Act, the Articles, the by-laws or otherwise to be given to any shareholder (or his duly appointed proxyholder), director, officer, auditor or member of a committee of directors or any other person, the giving of such notice or document may be waived or the time for the notice or document may be waived or abridged with the consent in writing of the person entitled thereto, either before or after the time prescribed. Any such waiver or abridgement shall cure any default in the giving or in the time of such notice, as the case may be. The provisions of this Section 11.8 shall be in addition to and not in limitation of Sections 3.10 and 7.4 hereof relating to waivers of notice of meeting of directors and shareholders which may be given in any manner and at any time.
 
ARTICLE  12
EFFECTIVE DATE AND REPEAL
 
12.1           This by-law shall come into force upon being passed by the board except with respect to those provisions, if any, which may require the prior approval of shareholders in which event those portions of this by-law shall come into effect upon having been approved by the shareholders. Upon this by-law coming into force, all prior by-laws presently in force other than by-laws relating to the borrowing powers of the Corporation are repealed provided that such repeal shall not affect the previous operation of such by-laws so repealed or affect the validity of any act done or right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired or incurred or the validity of any contract or agreement made pursuant to any such by-laws prior to their repeal. All officers and persons acting under such by-laws so repealed shall continue to act as if appointed under the provisions of this by-law and all resolutions of the shareholders or board passed under such repealed by-laws shall continue to be good and valid except to the extent that they are inconsistent with this by-law or until amended or repealed.
 
ENACTED by the board this 16th day of August 2010.

 
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(s) Marc Ferland
 
(s) Jean Rock Fournier
Marc Ferland, President
 
Jean Rock Fournier, Secretary


 
 

 


RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 
OF
 
COMAMTECH INC.
(the “Corporation”)

 
ENACTMENT OF BY-LAW NO. 2010-2
 
RESOLVED that:
 
1.
By-law No. 2010-2 of the Corporation, being a by-law amending By-law No. 2010-1of Corporation, is made; and
 
2.
the proper officers of the Corporation are authorized and directed to sign By-law No. 2010-2 in order to evidence its making.
 
The undersigned, being all of the directors of the Corporation, sign the foregoing resolution in accordance with the provisions of the Business Corporations Act.
 
DATED the ___ day of November, 2010.

     
Marc Ferland
 
Claude Forget

   
 
Lawrence Yelin


 
 

 

RESOLUTION OF THE SHAREHOLDER
 
OF
 
COMAMTECH INC.
(the “Corporation”)

 
CONFIRMATION OF BY-LAW NO. 2010-2
 
RESOLVED that By-law No. 2010-2 of the Corporation in the form made by the board of directors, being a by-law amending By-law No. 2010-1 of Corporation, is confirmed.
 
The undersigned, being the sole shareholder of the Corporation entitled to vote, signs the foregoing resolution in accordance with the provisions of the Business Corporations Act.
 
DATED the ___ day of November, 2010.

 
COPERNIC INC.
 
By:
 
   
Marc Ferland
   
President & Chief Executive Officer



 
 

 

BY-LAW NO. 2010-2

 
BEING A BY-LAW AMENDING BY-LAW NO. 2010-1
 
OF COMAMTECH INC.
(the “Corporation”)

 
BE IT ENACTED as a by-law of the Corporation that the first sentence in Article 3.1 of By-law No. 2010-1 is amended so that it now reads that “the board shall consist of not less than three (3) nor more than eleven (11) directors.”
 

 
ENACTED by board this ___ day of November, 2010.

     
Marc Ferland, President
 
Jean Rock Fournier, Secretary