EX-1 5 ex1-3.htm EXHIBIT 1.3 Filed by Filing Services Canada Inc. 403-717-3898

ARTICLES OF

QUEST INVESTMENT CORPORATION

PART ARTICLE PAGE  



 
       
       
1 INTERPRETATION 1  
 
   
2 SHARES AND SHARE CERTIFICATES 1  
 
   
3 ISSUE OF SHARES 3  
 
   
4 SHARE REGISTERS 3  
 
   
5 TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES 4  
 
   
6 ALTERATION OF CAPITAL 5  
 
   
7 PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF SHARES 6  
 
   
8 BORROWING POWERS 7  
 
   
9 GENERAL MEETINGS 8  
 
   
10 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS 9  
 
   
11 VOTES OF MEMBERS 11  
 
   
12 DIRECTORS 13  
 
   
13 ELECTION AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS 14  
 
   
14 POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS 16  
 
   
15 DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST OF DIRECTORS 16  
 
   
16 PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS 17  
 
   
17 EXECUTIVES AND OTHER COMMITTEES 19  
 
   
18 OFFICERS 19  
 
   
19 INDEMNITY AND PROTECTION OF DIRECTORS,    
  OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 20  
 
   
20 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE 21  
 
   
21 DOCUMENTS, RECORDS AND REPORTS 22  
 
   
22 NOTICES 23  
 
   
23 RECORD DATES 23  
 
   
24 SEAL 24  
 
   
25 PROHIBITIONS 25  
 
   
26 SPECIAL RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS 25  
 
   

 


PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

COMPANY ACT

ARTICLES OF

QUEST INVESTMENT CORPORATION

PART I

INTERPRETATION

1.1

In these Articles, unless there is something in the subject or context inconsistent therewith:

"Board" and "the Directors" or "the directors" mean the Directors or sole Director of the Company for the time being.

"Company Act" means the Company Act of the Province of British Columbia as from time to time enacted and all amendments thereto and includes the regulations made pursuant thereto.

"seal" means the common seal of the Company.

"month" means calendar month.

"registered owner" or "registered holder" when used with respect to a share in the authorized capital of the Company means the person registered in the register of members in respect of such share.

Expressions referring to writing shall be construed as including references to printing, lithography, typewriting, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form.

Words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa; and words importing male persons include female persons; and words importing persons shall include corporations.

1.2

The meaning of any words or phrases defined in the Company Act shall, if not inconsistent with the subject or context, bear the same meaning in these Articles.

1.3

The Rules of Construction contained in the Interpretation Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the interpretation of these Articles.

PART 2

SHARES AND SHARE CERTIFICATES

2.1

Every member is entitled, without charge, to one certificate representing the share or shares of each class held by him, provided that, in respect of a share or shares held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate, and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of several joint registered holders or to his duly authorized agent shall be sufficient delivery to all; and provided further that the Company shall not be bound to issue certificates representing redeemable shares, if such shares are to be redeemed within one month of the date on which they were allotted.  Any share certificate may be sent through the mail by registered prepaid mail to the member entitled thereto, and neither the Company nor any transfer agent shall be liable for any loss occasioned to the member owing to any such share certificate so sent being lost in the mail or stolen.


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2.2

If a share certificate

(i)

is worn out or defaced, the Directors shall, upon production to them of the said certificate and upon such other terms, if any, as they may think fit, order the said certificate to be cancelled and shall issue a new certificate in lieu thereof;

(ii)

is lost, stolen or destroyed, then, upon proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Directors and upon such indemnity, if any, as the Directors deem adequate being given, a new share certificate in lieu thereof shall be issued to the person entitled to such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate; or

(iii)

represents more than one share and the registered owner thereof surrenders it to the Company with a written request that the Company issue in his name two or more certificates each representing a specified number of shares and in the aggregate representing the same number of shares as the certificate so surrendered, the Company shall cancel the certificate so surrendered and issue in lieu thereof certificates in accordance with such request.

Such sum as the Directors may from time to time prescribe shall be paid to the Company for each certificate to be issued under this Article.

2.3

Every share certificate shall be signed manually by at least one officer or Director of the Company or by or on behalf of a registrar, branch registrar, transfer agent or branch transfer agent of the Company and any additional signatures may be printed or otherwise mechanically reproduced and, in such event, a certificate so signed is as valid as if signed manually, notwithstanding that any person whose signature is so printed or mechanically reproduced shall have ceased to hold the office that he is stated on such certificate to hold at the date of the issue of a share certificate.

2.4

Except as required by law, statute or these Articles, no person shall be recognized by the Company as holding any share upon any trust and the Company shall not be bound by or compelled in any way to recognize (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or in any fractional part of a share or (except only as by law, statute or these Articles provided or as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction) any other rights in respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in its registered holder.


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PART 3

ISSUE OF SHARES

3.1

Subject to Article 3.2 and to any direction to the contrary contained in a resolution passed at a general meeting authorizing any increase or alteration of capital, the shares shall be under the control of the Directors who may, subject to the rights of the holders of the shares of the Company for the time being issued, issue, allot, sell or otherwise dispose of, or grant options on, issue warrants for or otherwise deal in, shares authorized but not outstanding at such times, to such persons (including Directors) , in such manner, upon such terms and conditions, and at such price or for such consideration, as they, in their absolute discretion, may determine.

3.2

If the Company is, or becomes, a company which is not a reporting company and the Directors are required by the Company Act before allotting any shares to offer them pro rata to the members, the Directors shall, before allotting any shares, comply with the applicable provisions of the Company Act.

3.3

Subject to the provisions of the Company Act, the Company, or the Directors on behalf of the Company, may pay a commission or allow a discount to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally, for any shares in the Company, or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions, whether absolutely or conditionally, for any such shares, provided that, if the Company is not a specially limited company, the rate of the commission and discount shall not in the aggregate exceed twenty-five per centum of the amount of the subscription price of such shares.

3.4

No share may be issued until it is fully paid and the Company shall have received the full consideration therefor in cash, property or past services actually performed for the Company.  The value of property or services for the purpose of this Article shall be the value determined by the Directors by resolution to be, in all circumstances of the transaction, the fair market value thereof.

PART 4

SHARE REGISTERS

4.1

The Company shall keep or cause to be kept within British Columbia, a register of members, a register of transfers and a register of allotments, all as required by the Company Act, and may combine one or more of such registers.  If the Company's capital shall consist of more than one class of shares, a separate register of members, register of transfers and register of allotments may be kept in respect of each class of shares.  The Directors, on behalf of the Company, may appoint a trust company to keep  the register of members, register of transfers and register of allotments or, if there is more than one class of shares, the Directors may appoint a trust company, which need not be the same trust company, to keep the register of members, the register  of transfers and the register of allotments for each class of shares.  The Directors, on behalf of the Company, may also appoint one or more trust companies, including the trust company which keeps the said registers of its shares or of a class thereof, as transfer agent for its shares or such class thereof, as the case may be, and the same or another trust company or companies as registrar for its shares or such class thereof, as the case may be.  The Directors may terminate the appointment of any such trust company at any time and may appoint another trust company in its place.


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4.2

Unless prohibited by the Company Act, the Company may keep or cause to be kept one or more branch registers of members at such place or places, either within or outside British Columbia, as the Directors may from time to time determine.

4.3

The Company shall not at any time close its register of members.

PART 5

TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

5.1

Subject to the provisions of the Memorandum and of these Articles that may be applicable, any member may transfer any of his shares by instrument in writing executed by or on behalf of such member and delivered to the Company or its transfer agent.  The instrument of transfer of any share of the Company shall be in the form, if any, on the back of the Company's share certificates or in such other form as the Directors may from time to time approve.  Except to the extent that the Company Act may otherwise provide, the transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the shares until the name of the transferee is entered in the register of members or a branch register of members in respect thereof.

5.2

The signature of the registered owner of any shares, or of his duly authorized attorney, upon an authorized instrument of transfer shall constitute a complete and sufficient authority to the Company, its Directors, officers and agents to register, in the name of the transferee as named in the instrument of transfer, the number of shares specified therein or, if no number is specified, all the shares of the registered owner represented by share certificates deposited with the instrument of transfer.  If no transferee is named in the instrument of transfer, the instrument of transfer shall constitute a complete and sufficient authority to the Company, its Directors, officers and agents to register, in the name of the person in whose behalf any certificate for the shares to be transferred is deposited with the Company for the purpose of having the transfer registered, the number of shares specified in the instrument of transfer or, if no number is specified, all the shares represented by all share certificates deposited with the instrument of transfer.

5.3

Neither the Company nor any Director, officer or agent thereof shall be bound to inquire into the title of the person named in the form of transfer as transferee or, if no person is named therein as transferee, of the person on whose behalf the certificate is deposited with the Company for the purpose of having the transfer registered or be liable to any claim by such registered owner or by any intermediate owner or holder of the certificate or of any of the shares represented thereby or any interest therein for registering the transfer, and the transfer, when registered, shall confer upon the person in whose name the shares have been registered a valid title to such shares.

5.4

Every instrument of transfer shall be executed by the transferor and left at the registered office of the Company or at the office of its transfer agent or registrar for registration, together with the share certificate for the shares to be transferred and such other evidence, if any, as the Directors or the transfer agent or registrar may require to prove the title of the transferor or his right to transfer the shares and the right to the transferee to have the transfer registered.  All instruments of transfer where the transfer is registered shall be retained by the Company or its transfer agent or registrar and any instrument of transfer where the transfer is not registered shall be returned to the person depositing the same, together with the share certificate which accompanied the same when tendered for registration.


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5.5

There shall be paid to the Company in respect of the registration of any transfer such sum, if any, as the Directors may from time to time determine.

5.6

In the case of the death of a member, the survivor or survivors, where the deceased was a joint registered holder, and the legal personal representative of the deceased, where he was the sole holder, shall be the only persons recognized by the Company as having any title to his interest in the shares.  Before recognizing any legal personal representative, the Directors may require him to obtain a grant of probate or letters of administration in British Columbia.

5.7

Upon the death or bankruptcy of a member, his personal representative or trustee in bankruptcy, although not a member, shall have the same rights, privileges and obligations that attach to the shares formerly held by the deceased or bankrupt member if the documents required by the Company Act shall have been deposited at the Company's registered office.

5.8

Any person becoming entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a member shall, upon such documents and evidence being produced to the Company as the Company Act requires, or who becomes entitled to a share as a result of an order of a Court of competent jurisdiction or a statute, has the right either to be registered as a member in his representative capacity in respect of such share, or, if he is a personal representative, instead of being registered himself, to make such transfer of the share as the deceased or bankrupt person could have made; but the Directors shall, as regards a transfer by a personal representative or trustee in bankruptcy, have the same right, if any, to decline or suspend registration of a transferee as they would have in the case of a transfer of a share by the deceased or bankrupt person before the death or bankruptcy.

PART 6

ALTERATION OF CAPITAL

6.1

The Company may, by ordinary resolution filed with the Registrar, amend its Memorandum to increase the authorized capital of the Company by:

(i)

creating shares with par value or shares without par value, or both;

(ii)

increasing the number of shares with par value or shares without par value, or both; or

(iii)

increasing the par value of a class of shares with par value, if no shares of that class are issued.


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6.2

The Company may, by special resolution, alter its Memorandum to subdivide, consolidate, change from shares with par value to shares without par value, or from shares without par value to shares with par value, or change the designation of all or any of its shares but only to such extent, in such manner and with such consents of members holding a class of shares which is the subject of or affected by such alteration, as the Company Act provides.

6.3

The Company may alter its Memorandum or these Articles:

(i)

by special resolution, to create, define and attach special rights or restrictions to any shares, and

(ii)

by special resolution and by otherwise complying with any applicable provision of its Memorandum or these Articles, to vary or abrogate any special rights and restrictions attached to any shares

and in each case by filing a certified copy of such resolution with the Registrar but no right or special right attached to any issued shares shall be prejudiced or interfered with unless all members holding shares of each class whose right or special right is so prejudiced or interfered with consent thereto in writing, or unless a resolution consenting thereto is passed at a separate class meeting of the holders of the shares of each such class by a majority of three-fourths, or such greater majority as may be specified by the special rights attached to the class of shares, of the issued shares of such class.

6.4

Notwithstanding such consent in writing or such resolution, no such alteration shall be valid as to any part of the issued shares of any class unless the holders of the rest of the issued shares of such class either all consent thereto in writing or consent thereto by a resolution passed by the votes of members holding three-fourths of the rest of such shares.

6.5

If the Company is or becomes a reporting company, no resolution to create, vary or abrogate any special right of conversion attaching to any class of shares shall be submitted to any meeting of members unless, if so required by the Company Act, the Superintendent of Brokers for British Columbia shall have consented to the resolution.

6.6

Unless these Articles otherwise provide, the provisions of these Articles relating to general meetings shall apply, with the necessary changes and so far as they are applicable, to a class meeting of members holding a particular class of shares but the quorum at a class meeting shall be one person holding or representing by proxy one-third of the shares affected.

PART 7

PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF SHARES

7.1

Subject to the special rights and restrictions attached to any class or series of shares, the Company may, by a resolution of the Directors and in compliance with the Company Act, purchase any of its shares at the price and upon the terms specified in such resolution or redeem any class or series of its shares in accordance with the special rights and restrictions attaching thereto.  No such purchase or redemption shall be made if the Company is insolvent at the time of the proposed purchase or redemption or if the proposed purchase or redemption would render the Company insolvent.  Unless otherwise permitted under the Company Act, the Company shall make its offer to purchase pro rata to every member who holds shares of the class or kind, as the case may be, to be purchased.


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7.2

If the Company proposes at its option to redeem some but not all of the shares of any class, the Directors may, subject to the special rights and restrictions attached to such class of shares, decide the manner in which the shares to be redeemed shall be selected.

7.3

Subject to the provisions of the Company Act, any shares purchased or redeemed by the Company may be sold or issued by it, but, while such shares are held by the Company, it shall not exercise any vote in respect of these shares and no dividend or other distribution shall be paid or made thereon.

PART 8

BORROWING POWERS

8.1

The Directors may from time to time on behalf of the Company:

(i)

borrow money in such manner and amount, on such security, from such sources and upon such terms and conditions as they think fit,

(ii)

issue bonds, debentures and other debt obligations either outright or as security for any liability or obligation of the Company or any other person, and

(iii)

mortgage, pledge, charge, whether by way of specific or floating charge, or give other security on the undertaking, or on the whole or any part of the property and assets, of the Company (both present and future).

8.2

Any bonds, debentures or other debt obligations of the Company may be issued at a discount, premium or otherwise, and with any special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawing, allotment of or conversion into or exchange for shares or other securities, attending and voting at general meetings of the Company, appointment of Directors or otherwise and may, by their terms, be assignable free from any equities between the Company and the person to whom they were issued or any subsequent holder thereof, all as the Directors may determine.

8.3

The Company shall keep or cause to be kept within the Province of British Columbia in accordance with the Company Act a register of its debentures and a register of debentureholders which registers may be combined and, subject to the provisions of the Company Act, may keep or cause to be kept one or more branch registers of its debentureholders at such place or places as the Directors may from time to time determine and the Directors may by resolution, regulation or otherwise make such provisions as they think fit respecting the keeping of such branch registers.


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8.4

Every bond, debenture or other debt obligation of the Company shall be signed manually by at least one Director or officer of the Company or by or on behalf of a trustee, registrar, branch registrar, transfer agent or branch transfer agent for the bond, debenture or other debt obligation appointed by the Company or under any instrument under which the bond, debenture or other debt obligation is issued and any additional signatures may be printed or otherwise mechanically reproduced thereon and, in such event, a bond, debenture or other debt obligation so signed is as valid as if signed manually notwithstanding that any person whose signature is so printed or mechanically reproduced shall have ceased to hold the office that he is stated on such bond, debenture or other debt obligation to hold at the date of the issue thereof.

8.5

The Company shall keep or cause to be kept a register of its indebtedness to every Director or officer of the Company or an associate of any of them in accordance with the provisions of the Company Act.

PART 9

GENERAL MEETINGS

9.1

Subject to any extensions of time permitted pursuant to the Company Act, the first annual general meeting of the Company shall be held within fifteen months from the date of amalgamation and thereafter an annual general meeting shall be held once in every calendar year at such time (not being more than thirteen months after the holding of the last preceding annual general meeting) and place as may be determined by the Directors.

9.2

If the Company is, or becomes, a company which is not a reporting company and all the members entitled to attend and vote at an annual general meeting consent in writing to all the business which is required or desired to be transacted at the meeting, the meeting need not be held.

9.3

All general meetings other than annual general meetings are herein referred to as and may be called extraordinary general meetings.

9.4

The Directors may, whenever they think fit, convene an extraordinary general meeting.  An extraordinary general meeting, if requisitioned in accordance with the Company Act, shall be convened by the Directors or, if not convened by the Directors, may be convened by the requisitionists as provided in the Company Act.

9.5

If the Company is, or becomes, a reporting company, advance notice of any general meeting at which Directors are to be elected shall be published in the manner required by the Company Act.

9.6

A notice convening a general meeting specifying the place, the day and the hour of the meeting and, in the case of special business, the general nature of that business, shall be given as provided in the Company Act and in the manner hereinafter in these Articles mentioned or in such other manner, if any, as may be prescribed by ordinary resolution, whether previous notice thereof has been given or not, to such persons as are entitled by law or under these Articles to receive such notice from the Company.  Accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, any member shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting.


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9.7

All the members of the Company entitled to attend and vote at a general meeting may, by unanimous consent in writing given before, during or after the meeting or, if they are present at the meeting, by a unanimous vote, waive or reduce the period of notice of such meeting and an entry in the minute book of such waiver or reduction shall be sufficient evidence of the due convening of the meeting.

9.8

Except as otherwise provided by the Company Act, where any special business at a general meeting includes considering, approving, ratifying, adopting or authorizing any document or the execution thereof or the giving of effect thereto, the notice convening the meeting shall, with respect to such document, be sufficient if it states that a copy of the document or proposed document is or will be available for inspection by members at the registered office or records office of the Company or at some other place in British Columbia designated in the notice during usual business hours up to the date of such general meeting.

PART 10

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS

10.1

All business shall be deemed special business which is transacted at

(i)

an extraordinary general meeting other than the conduct of and voting at such meeting; and

(ii)

an annual general meeting, with the exception of the conduct of, and voting at, such meeting, the consideration of the financial statement and of the respective reports of the Directors and Auditor, fixing or changing the number of Directors, the election of Directors, the appointment of the Auditor, the fixing of the remuneration of the Auditor and such other business as by these Articles or the Company Act may be transacted at a general meeting without prior notice thereof being given to the members or any business which is brought under consideration by the report of the Directors.

10.2

No business, other than election of the chairman or the adjournment of the meeting, shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members, entitled to attend and vote, is present at the commencement of the meeting, but the quorum need not be present throughout the meeting.

10.3

Save as herein otherwise provided, a quorum shall be two members or proxyholders present.  If there is only one member, the quorum is one person present and being, or representing by proxy, such member.  The Directors, the Secretary or, in his absence, an assistant Secretary, and the solicitor of the Company shall be entitled to attend at any general meeting but no such person shall be counted in the quorum or be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless he is a member or proxyholder entitled to vote thereat.


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10.4

If, within half an hour from the time appointed for a general meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members, shall be dissolved.  In any other case, it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place, and, if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, the person or persons present and being, or representing by proxy, a member or members entitled to attend and vote at the meeting shall be a quorum.

10.5

The Chairman of the Board, if any, or in his absence the President of the Company shall be entitled to preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the Company.

10.6

If at any general meeting neither the Chairman of the Board nor the President is present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting or is willing to serve as Chairman, the members present shall choose a Chairman.

10.7

The Chairman may and shall, if so directed by the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.  When a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice, but not "advance notice", of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting.  Save as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjourned meeting or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.

10.8

No motion proposed at a general meeting need be seconded and the Chairman may propose or second a motion.

10.9

Subject to the provisions of the Company Act, at any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) a poll is directed by the Chairman or demanded by at least one member entitled to vote who is present in person or by proxy.  The Chairman shall declare to the meeting the decision on every question in  accordance with the result of the show of hands or the poll, and such decision shall be entered in the minute book of the Company.  A declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost or not carried by a particular majority and an entry to that effect in the minute book of the Company shall be conclusive evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of, or against that resolution.

10.10

In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the Chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded shall not be entitled to a second or casting vote.

10.11

No poll may be demanded on the election of a Chairman.  A poll demanded on a question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith.  A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken as soon as, in the opinion of the Chairman, is reasonably convenient, but in no event later than seven days after the meeting and at such time and place and in such manner as the Chairman of the meeting directs.  The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of and passed at the meeting at which the poll was demanded.


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Any business other than that upon which the poll has been demanded may be proceeded with pending the taking of the poll.  A demand for a poll may be withdrawn.  In any dispute as to the admission or rejection of a vote, the decision of the Chairman made in good faith shall be final and conclusive.

10.12

Every ballot cast upon a poll and every proxy appointing a proxyholder who casts a ballot upon a poll shall be retained by the Secretary for such period and be subject to such inspection as the Company Act may provide.

10.13

On a poll, a person entitled to cast more than one vote need not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.

10.14

Unless the Company Act, the Memorandum or these Articles otherwise provide, any action to be taken by a resolution of the members may be taken by an ordinary resolution.

PART 11

VOTES OF MEMBERS

11.1

Subject to any special voting rights or restrictions attached to any class of shares and the restrictions on joint registered holders of shares, on a show of hands every member who is present in person and entitled to vote thereat shall have one vote and on a poll every member shall have one vote for each share of which he is the registered holder and may exercise such vote either in person or by proxyholder.

11.2

Any person who is not registered as a member but is entitled to vote at any general meeting in respect of a share may vote the share in the same manner as if he were a member; but, unless the Directors have previously admitted his right to vote at that meeting in respect of the share, he shall satisfy the Directors of his right to vote the share before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting, as the case may be, at which he proposes to vote.

11.3

Any corporation not being a subsidiary which is a member of the Company may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorize such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any general meeting or class meeting.  The person so authorized shall be entitled to exercise in respect of and at such meeting the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual member of the Company personally present including, without limitation, the right, unless restricted by such resolution, to appoint a proxyholder to represent such corporation, and shall be counted for the purpose of forming a quorum if present at the meeting.  Evidence of the appointment of any such representative may be sent to the Company by written instrument, telegram, telex or any method of transmitting legibly recorded messages.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, a corporation which is a member may appoint a proxyholder.

11.4

In the case of joint registered holders of a share, the vote of the senior who exercises a vote, whether in person or by proxyholder, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint registered holders; and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of members.  Several legal personal representatives of a deceased member whose shares are registered in his sole name shall for the purpose of this Article be deemed joint registered holders.


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11.5

A member of unsound mind entitled to attend and vote, in respect of whom an order has been made by any court having jurisdiction, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee, curator bonis or other person in the nature of a committee or curator bonis appointed by that court, and any such committee, curator bonis or other person may appoint a proxyholder.

11.6

A member holding more than one share in respect of which he is entitled to vote shall be entitled to appoint one or more (but not more than five) proxyholders to attend, act and vote for him on the same occasion.  If such a member should appoint more than one proxyholder for the same occasion, he shall specify the number of shares each proxyholder shall be entitled to vote.  A member may also appoint one or more alternate proxyholders to act in the place and stead of an absent proxyholder.

11.7

A form of proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorized in writing or, if the appointor is a corporation, either under the seal of the corporation or under the hand of a duly authorized officer or attorney.  A proxyholder need not be a member of the Company if:

(i)

the Company is, at the time, a reporting company, or

(ii)

the member appointing the proxyholder is a corporation, or

(iii)

the Company shall have, at the time, only one member, or

(iv)

the persons present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the meeting by resolution permit the proxyholder to attend and vote; for the purpose of such resolution, the proxyholder shall be counted in the quorum but shall not be entitled to vote

and in all other cases a proxyholder must be a member.

11.8

A proxy and any power of attorney or other authority under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of the power or authority shall be deposited at the place specified for that purpose in the notice of meeting or, in the documents mailed to the members with the notice of meeting or, if no place is so specified, at the registered office of the Company before the time for holding the meeting at which the person named in the proxy proposes to vote or such earlier time as the Directors may determine.  In default, the proxy will not be treated as valid.

11.9

Unless the Company Act or any other statute or law which is applicable to the Company or to any class of its shares requires any other form of proxy, a proxy, whether for a specified meeting or otherwise, shall be in the form following, but may also be in any other form that the Directors or the Chairman of the meeting shall approve:


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"The undersigned member of __________________________________________ (hereinafter called the "Company") hereby appoints________________________, or failing him, ________________________or failing either of them, as the proxyholder for and on behalf of the undersigned to attend, act and vote for and on behalf of the undersigned at the general meeting of the members of the Company to be held on _______________________and at any adjournments thereof, to the same extent and with the same powers as if the undersigned were present at the said meeting, or any adjournment thereof, and the persons named are specifically directed to vote as indicated below:

Dated:


Signature of Member"

11.10

A vote given in accordance with the terms of a proxy is valid, notwithstanding  the previous death or incapacity of the member giving the proxy or the revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the form of proxy was executed or the transfer of the share or shares in respect of which the proxy is given, provided that no notification in writing of such death, incapacity, revocation or transfer shall have been received at the registered office of the Company or by the Chairman of the meeting or adjourned meeting for which the proxy was given before the vote is taken.

11.11

Every proxy may be revoked by an instrument in writing

(i)

executed by the member giving the same or by his attorney authorized in writing or, where the member is a corporation, by a duly authorized officer or attorney of the corporation; and

(ii)

delivered either at the registered office of the Company at any time up to and including the last business day preceding the day of the meeting, or any adjournment thereof at which the proxy is to be used, or to the Chairman of the meeting on the day of the meeting or any adjournment thereof before any vote in respect of which the proxy is to be used shall have been taken

or in any other manner provided by law.

PART 12

DIRECTORS

12.1

The persons named in the Plan of Arrangement are the first Directors.  The Directors to succeed the first Directors shall be elected or appointed in accordance with these Articles.  The number of Directors, excluding additional Directors, may be fixed or changed from time to time by ordinary resolution, whether previous notice thereof has been given or not, but notwithstanding anything contained in these Articles, the number of Directors shall never be less than one or, if the Company is or becomes a reporting company, less than three.


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12.2

The remuneration of the Directors as such may from time to time be determined  by the Directors or, if the Directors shall so decide, by the members.  Such remuneration may be in addition to any salary or other remuneration paid  to any officer or employee of the Company as such who is also a Director.  The Directors shall be repaid such reasonable travelling, hotel and other expenses as they incur in and about the business of the Company and, if any Director shall perform any professional or other services for the Company that in the opinion of the Directors are outside the ordinary duties of a Director or shall otherwise be specially occupied in or about the Company's business, he may be paid a remuneration to be fixed by the Board or, at the option of such Director, by the Company in general meeting and such remuneration may be either in addition to, or in substitution for, any other remuneration that he may be entitled to receive.  The Directors, on behalf of the Company, unless otherwise determined by ordinary resolution, may pay a gratuity or pension or allowance on retirement to any Director who has held any salaried office or place of profit with the Company or to his spouse or dependents and may make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance.

12.3

A Director shall not be required to hold a share in the capital of the Company as qualification for his office but shall be qualified as required by the Company Act to become or act as a Director.

PART 13

ELECTION AND REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

13.1

At each annual general meeting of the Company all the Directors shall retire and the members entitled to vote thereat shall elect a Board of Directors.  If the Company is, or becomes, a company that is not a reporting company and the business to be transacted at any annual general meeting is consented to in writing by all the members who are entitled to attend and vote thereat, such annual general meeting shall be deemed for the purpose of this Part to have been held on such written consent becoming effective.

13.2

A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election.

13.3

Where the Company fails to hold an annual general meeting in accordance with the Company Act, the Directors then in office shall be deemed to have been elected or appointed as Directors on the last day on which the annual general meeting could have been held pursuant to these Articles and they may hold office until other Directors are appointed or elected or until the day on which the next annual general meeting is held.

13.4

If at any general meeting at which there should be an election of Directors, the places of any of the retiring Directors are not filled by such election, such of the retiring Directors who are not re-elected as Directors may be requested by the newly-elected Directors, and they shall, if willing to do so, continue in office to complete the number of Directors for the


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time being fixed pursuant to these Articles until further new Directors are elected at a general meeting convened for the purpose.  If any such election or continuance of Directors does not result in the election or continuance of the number of Directors for the time being fixed pursuant to these Articles, such number shall be fixed at the number of Directors actually elected or continued in office or at such number as fixed by resolution at a general meeting.

13.5

Any casual vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors may be filled by resolution of the remaining Directors or Director.

13.6

Between successive annual general meetings, the Directors shall have power to appoint one or more additional Directors but not more than one-third of the number of Directors fixed pursuant to these Articles and in effect at the last general meeting at which Directors were elected.  Any Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting of the Company but shall be eligible for election at such meeting and, so long as he is an additional Director, the number of Directors shall be increased accordingly.

13.7

Any Director may, by instrument in writing delivered to the Company, appoint any person to be his alternate to act in his place at meetings of the Directors at which he is not present unless the Directors shall have reasonably disapproved the appointment of such person as an alternate Director and shall have given notice to that effect to the Director appointing the alternate Director within a reasonable time after delivery of such instrument to the Company.  Every such alternate shall be entitled to notice of meetings of the Directors and to attend and vote as a Director at a meeting at which the person appointing him is not personally present, and, if he is a Director, to have a separate vote  on behalf of the Director he is representing in addition to his own vote.  A Director may at any time by instrument, telegram, telex or any method of transmitting legibly recorded messages delivered to the Company revoke the appointment of an alternate appointed by him.  The remuneration payable to such an alternate shall be payable out of the remuneration of the Director appointing him.

13.8

The office of Director shall be vacated if the Director:

(i)

resigns his office by notice in writing delivered to the registered office of the Company; or

(ii)

is convicted of an indictable offence and the other Directors shall have resolved to remove him; or

(iii)

ceases to be qualified to act as a Director pursuant to the Company Act.

13.9

The Company may, by special resolution, remove any Director before the expiration of his period of office and may, by an ordinary resolution, appoint another person in his stead.


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PART 14

POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS

14.1

The Directors shall manage, or supervise the management of, the affairs and business of the Company and shall have the authority to exercise all such powers of the Company as are not, by the Company Act or by the Memorandum or these Articles, required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting.

14.2

The Directors may from time to time by power of attorney or other instrument  under the seal, appoint any person to be the attorney of the Company for such  purposes, and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the Directors under these Articles and excepting the powers of the Directors relating to the constitution of the Board and of any of its committees and the appointment or removal of officers and the power to declare dividends) and for such period, which such remuneration and subject to such conditions as the Directors may think fit, and any such appointment may be made in favour of any of the Directors or any of the members of the Company or in favour of any corporation, or of any of the members, directors, nominees or managers of any corporation, firm or joint venture and any such power of attorney may contain such provisions for the protection or convenience of persons dealing with such attorney as the Directors think fit.  Any such attorney may be authorized by the Directors to subdelegate all or any of the powers, authorities and discretions for the time being vested in him.

PART 15

DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST OF DIRECTORS

15.1

A Director who is, in any way, directly or indirectly interested in an existing or proposed contract or transaction with the Company or who holds any office or possesses any property whereby, directly or indirectly, a duty or interest might be created to conflict with his duty or interest as a Director shall declare the nature and extent of his interest in such contract or transaction or of the conflict or potential conflict with his duty and interest as a Director, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of the Company Act.

15.2

A Director shall not vote in respect of any such contract or transaction with the Company in which he is interested and, if he shall do so, his vote shall not be counted, but he shall be counted in the quorum present at the meeting at which such vote is taken.  Subject to the provisions of the Company Act, the foregoing prohibitions shall not apply to

(i)

any such contract or transaction relating to a loan to the Company, which a Director, or a specified corporation or a specified firm in which he has an interest, has guaranteed or joined in guaranteeing the repayment of the loan or any part of the loan;

(ii)

any contract or transaction made or to be made with, or for the benefit of, an affiliated corporation of which a Director is a director;

(iii)


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(iii)

determining the remuneration of the Directors;

(iv)

purchasing and maintaining insurance to cover Directors against liability incurred by them as Directors; or

(v)

the indemnification of any Director by the Company.

These exceptions may from time to time be suspended or amended to any extent approved by the Company in general meeting and permitted by the Company Act, either generally or in respect of any particular contract or transaction or for any particular period.

15.3

A Director may hold any office or place of profit with the Company (other than the office of auditor of the Company) in conjunction with his office of Director for such period and on such terms (as to remuneration or otherwise) as the Directors may determine and no Director or intended Director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company either with regard to his tenure of any such other office or place of profit or as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, and, subject to compliance with the provisions of the Company Act, no contract or transaction entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which a Director is in any way interested shall be liable to be voided by reason thereof.

15.4

Subject to compliance with the provisions of the Company Act, a Director or his firm may act in a professional capacity for the Company (except as auditor of the Company) and he or his firm shall be entitled to remuneration for professional services as if he were not a Director.

15.5

A Director may be or become a director or other officer or employee of, or otherwise interested in, any corporation or entity in which the Company may be interested as a shareholder or otherwise, and, subject to compliance with the provisions of the Company Act, such Director shall not be accountable to the Company for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as director, officer or employee of, or from his interest in, such other corporation or firm, unless the Company in general meeting otherwise directs.

PART 16

PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

16.1

The Chairman of the Board, if any, or, in his absence, the President shall preside as Chairman at every meeting of the Directors.  If there is no Chairman of the Board or neither the Chairman of the Board nor the President is present within 15 minutes of the time appointed for holding the meeting or is willing to act as Chairman or, if the Chairman of the Board, if any, and the President have advised the Secretary that they will not be present at the meeting, the Directors present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.

16.2

The Directors may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings, as they think fit.  Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes.  In case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.  Meetings of the Board held at regular intervals may be held at such place, at such time and upon such notice, if any, as the Board may by resolution from time to time determine.


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16.3

A meeting of the Board or of any committee of the Directors may be held by means of conference telephones or other communications facilities whereby all Directors participating in the meeting can hear each other provided that all such Directors agree to such participation.  A Director participating in a meeting in accordance with this Article shall be deemed to be present at the meeting and to have so agreed and shall be counted in the quorum therefor and be entitled to speak and vote thereat.

16.4

A Director may, and the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary upon request of a Director shall, call a meeting of the Board at any time.  Reasonable notice of such meeting specifying the place, day and hour of such meeting shall be given by mail, postage prepaid, addressed to each of the Directors and alternate Directors at his address as it appears on the books of the Company or by leaving it at his usual business or residential address or by telephone, telegram, telex or any method of transmitting legibly recorded messages.  It shall not be necessary to give notice of a meeting of Directors to any Director or alternate Director if such meeting is to be held immediately following a general meeting at which such Director shall have been elected or is the meeting of Directors at which such Director is appointed.

16.5

Any Director of the Company may file with the Secretary a document executed by him waiving notice of any past, present or future meeting or meetings of the Directors being, or required to have been, sent to him and may at any time withdraw such waiver with respect to meetings held thereafter.  After filing such waiver with respect to future meetings and until such waiver is withdrawn no notice need be given to such Director and, unless the Director otherwise requires in writing to the Secretary, to his alternate Director of any meeting of Directors and all meetings of the Directors so held shall be deemed not to be improperly called or constituted by reason of notice not having been given to such Director or alternate Director.

16.6

The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the Directors may be fixed by the Directors and, if not so fixed, shall be a majority of the Directors or, if the number of Directors is fixed at one, shall be one Director.

16.7

The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum of Directors, the continuing Directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to that number or of summoning a general meeting of the Company, but for no other purpose.

16.8

Subject to the provisions of the Company Act, all acts done by any meeting of the Directors or of a committee of Directors, or by any person acting as a Director, shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the qualification, election or appointment of any such Directors or of the members of such committee or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly elected or appointed and was qualified to be a Director.


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16.9

A resolution consented to in writing, whether by document, telegram,  telex or any method of transmitting legibly recorded messages or other means, by all of the Directors shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Directors duly called and held.  Such resolution may be in two or more counterparts which together shall be deemed  to constitute one resolution in writing.  Such resolution shall be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Directors and shall be effective on the date stated thereon or on the latest date stated on any counterpart.

PART 17

EXECUTIVE AND OTHER COMMITTEES

17.1

The Directors may by resolution appoint one or more committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit and may delegate to any such committee between meetings of the Board such powers of the Board (except the power to fill vacancies in the Board and the power to change the membership of or fill vacancies in any committee of the Board and the power to appoint or remove officers appointed by the Board) subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in such resolution, and all committees so appointed shall keep regular minutes of their transactions and shall cause them to be recorded in books kept for that purpose, and shall report the same to the Board of Directors at such times as the Board of Directors may from time to time require.  The Directors shall also have power at any time to revoke or override any authority given to or acts to be done by any such committees except as to acts done before such revocation or overriding and to terminate the appointment or change the membership of a committee and to fill vacancies in it.  Committees may make rules for the conduct of their business and may appoint such assistants as they may deem necessary.  A majority of the members of a committee shall constitute a quorum thereof.

17.2

Any committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper.  Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members of the committee present and, in case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall not have a second or casting vote.  A resolution approved in writing by all the members of the Executive Committee or any other committee shall be as valid and effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of such committee duly called and constituted.  Such resolution may be in two or more counterparts which together shall be deemed to constitute one resolution in writing.  Such resolution shall be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the committee and shall be effective on the date stated thereon or on the latest date stated in any counterpart.

PART 18

OFFICERS

18.1

The Directors shall from time to time appoint a President and a Secretary and such other officers, if any, as the Directors shall determine and the Directors may, at any time, terminate any such appointment.  No officer shall be appointed unless he is qualified in accordance with the provisions of the Company Act.


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18.2

One person may hold more than one of such offices, except that the offices of President and Secretary  must be held by different persons unless the Company has only one member.  Any person appointed as the Chairman  of the Board, the President or the managing Director shall be a Director.  The other officers need not be Directors.  The remuneration of the officers of the Company as such and the terms and  conditions of their tenure of office or employment shall from time to time be determined by the Directors; such remuneration may be by way of salary, fees, wages, commission or participation in profits or any other means or all of these modes and an officer may, in addition to such remuneration, be entitled to receive, after he ceases to hold such office or leaves the employment of the Company, a pension or gratuity.  The Directors may decide what functions and duties each officer shall perform and may entrust to and confer upon him any of the powers exercisable by them upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as they think fit and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such functions, duties and powers.  The Secretary shall, inter alia, perform the functions of the Secretary specified in the Company Act.

18.3

Every officer of the Company who holds any office or possesses any property whereby, whether directly or indirectly, duties or interests might be created in conflict with his duties or interests as an officer of the Company shall, in writing, disclose to the President the fact and the nature, character and extent of the conflict.

PART 19

INDEMNITY AND PROTECTION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

19.1

Subject to the provisions of the Company Act, the Directors shall cause the Company to indemnify a Director or former Director of the Company and the Directors may cause the Company to indemnify a Director or former Director of a corporation of which the Company is or was a shareholder and the heirs and personal representatives of any such person against all costs, charges and expenses, including an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, actually and reasonably incurred by him or them including an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment in a civil, criminal or administrative action or proceeding to which he is or they are made a party by reason of his being or having been a Director of the Company or a director of such corporation, including any action brought by the Company or any such corporation.  Each Director of the Company on being elected or appointed shall be deemed to have contracted with the Company on the terms of the foregoing indemnity.

19.2

Subject to the provisions of the Company Act, the Directors may cause the Company to indemnify any officer, employee or agent of the Company or of a corporation of which the Company is or was a shareholder (notwithstanding that he is also a Director) and his heirs and personal representatives against all costs, charges and expenses whatsoever incurred by him or them and resulting from his acting as an officer, employee or agent of the Company or such corporation.  In addition, the Company shall indemnify the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company (if he shall not be a full time employee of the Company and notwithstanding that he is also a Director) and his respective heirs and legal representatives against all costs, charges and expenses whatsoever incurred by him or them and arising out of the functions assigned to the Secretary by the Company Act or these Articles and each such Secretary and Assistant Secretary shall on being appointed be deemed to have contracted with the Company on the terms of the foregoing indemnity.


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19.3

The failure of a Director or officer of the Company to comply with the provisions of the Company Act or of the Memorandum or these Articles shall not invalidate any indemnity to which he is entitled under this Part.

19.4

The Directors may cause the Company to purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any person who is or was serving as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or as a director, officer, employee or agent of any corporation of which the Company is or was a shareholder and his heirs or personal representatives against any liability incurred by him as such director, officer, employee or agent.

PART 20

DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE

20.1

The Directors may, from time to time, declare and authorize payment of such dividends, if any, as they may deem advisable and need not give notice of such declaration to any member.  No dividend shall be paid otherwise than out of funds and/or assets properly available for the payment of dividends and a declaration by the Directors as to the amount of such funds or assets available for dividends shall be conclusive.  The Company may pay any such dividend, wholly or in part, by the distribution of specific assets and, in particular, by paid up shares, bonds, debentures or other securities of the Company or any other corporation or in any one or more such ways as may be authorized by the Company or the Directors and where any difficulty arises with regard to such a distribution the Directors may settle the same as they think expedient and, in particular, may fix the value for distribution of such specific assets or any part thereof and may determine that cash payments in substitution for all or any part of the specific assets to which any members are entitled shall be made to any members on the basis of other value so fixed in order to adjust the rights of all parties and may vest any such specific assets in trustees for the persons entitled to the dividend as may seem expedient to the Directors.

20.2

Any dividend declared on shares of any class by the Directors may be made payable on such date as is fixed by the Directors.

20.3

Subject to the rights of members, if any, holding shares with special rights as to dividends, all dividends on shares of any class shall be declared and paid according to the number of such shares held.

20.4

The Directors may, before declaring any dividend, set aside out of the funds  properly available for the payment of dividends such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves, which shall, at the discretion of the Directors, be applicable for meeting contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for any other purpose to which such funds of the Company may be properly applied and pending such application may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments as the Directors may from time to time think fit.  The Directors may also, without placing the same in reserve, carry forward such  funds which they think prudent not to divide.


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20.5

If several persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any one of them may give an effective receipt for any dividend, bonuses or other moneys payable in respect of the share.

20.6

No dividend shall bear interest against the Company.  Where the dividend to which a member is entitled includes a fraction of a cent, such fraction shall be disregarded in making payment thereof and such payment shall be deemed to be payment in full.

20.7

Any dividend, bonuses or other moneys payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed to the registered address of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the registered address of that one of the joint holders who is first named in the register, or to such person and to such address as the holder or joint holders may direct in writing.  Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent.  The mailing of such cheque or warrant shall, to the extent of the sum represented thereby (plus the amount of any tax required by law to be deducted), discharge all liability for the dividend, unless such cheque or warrant shall not be paid on presentation or the amount of tax so deducted shall not be paid to the appropriate taxing authority.

20.8

Notwithstanding anything contained in these Articles, the Directors may from time to time capitalize any undistributed surplus on hand of the Company and may from time to time issue as fully paid and non-assessable any unissued shares, or any bonds, debentures or debt obligations of the Company as a dividend representing such undistributed surplus on hand or any part thereof.

PART 21

DOCUMENTS, RECORDS AND REPORTS

21.1

The Company shall keep at its records office or at such other place as the Company Act may permit, the documents, copies, registers, minutes and records which the Company is required by the Company Act to keep at its records office or such other place, as the case may be.

21.2

The Company shall keep or cause to be kept proper books of account and accounting records in respect of all financial and other transactions of the Company in order to properly record the financial affairs and conditions of the Company and to comply with the Company Act.

21.3

Unless the Directors determine otherwise, or unless otherwise determined by an ordinary resolution, no member of the Company shall be entitled to inspect the accounting records of the Company.

21.4

The Directors shall from time to time at the expense of the Company, cause to be prepared and laid before the Company in general meeting such financial statements and reports as are required by the Company Act.


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21.5

Every member shall be entitled, without charge, to a copy of the latest annual financial statement of the Company and, if so required by the Company Act, a copy of each such annual financial statement and interim financial statement shall be mailed to each member.

PART 22

NOTICES

22.1

A notice, statement or report may be given or delivered by the Company to any member either by delivery to him personally or by sending it by mail to him to his address as recorded in the register of members.  Where a notice, statement or report is sent by mail, service or delivery of the notice, statement or report shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and mailing the notice, statement or report and to have been given on the day, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays excepted, following the date of mailing.  A certificate signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or of any other corporation acting in that behalf for the Company that the letter, envelope or wrapper containing the notice, statement or report was so addressed, prepaid and mailed shall be conclusive evidence thereof.

22.2

A notice, statement or report may be given or delivered by the Company to the joint holders of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder first named in the register of members in respect of the share.

22.3

A notice, statement or report may be given or delivered by the Company to the persons entitled to a share in consequence of the death, bankruptcy or incapacity of a member by sending it through the mail prepaid addressed to them by name or by the title of representatives of the deceased or incapacitated person or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the address, if any, supplied to the Company for the purpose by the persons claiming to be so entitled, or (until such address has been so supplied) by giving the notice in a manner in which the same might have been given if the death, bankruptcy or incapacity had not occurred.

22.4

Notice of every general meeting or meeting of members holding a class of shares shall be given in a manner hereinbefore authorized to every member holding at the time of the issue of the notice or the date fixed for determining the members entitled to such notice, whichever is the earlier, shares which confer the right to notice of and to attend and vote at any such meeting.  No other person except the auditor of the Company and the Directors of the Company shall be entitled to receive notices of any such meeting.

PART 23

RECORD DATES

23.1

The Directors may fix in advance a date, which shall not be more than the maximum number of days permitted by the Company Act preceding the date of any meeting of members or any class thereof or of the payment of any dividend or of the proposed taking of any other proper action requiring the determination of members as the record date for the determination of the members entitled to notice of, or to attend and vote at, any such meeting and any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any such dividend or for any other proper purpose and, in such case, notwithstanding anything elsewhere contained in these Articles, only members of record on the date so fixed shall be deemed to be members for the purposes aforesaid.


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23.2

Where no record date is so fixed for the determination of members as provided in the preceding Article, the date on which the notice is mailed or on which the resolution declaring the dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination.

PART 24

SEAL

24.1

The Directors may provide a seal for the Company and, if they do so, shall provide for the safe custody of the seal which shall not be affixed to any instrument except in the presence of the following persons, namely:

(i)

any two Directors, or

(ii)

one of the Chairman of the Board, the President, the managing Director and a Vice-President together with one of the Secretary, the Treasurer, the Secretary-Treasurer, an Assistant Secretary, an Assistant Treasurer and an Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, or

(iii)

if the Company shall have only one member, the President or the Secretary, or

(iv)

such person or persons as the Directors may from time to time by resolution appoint

and the said Directors, officers, person or persons in whose presence the seal is to be affixed to an instrument shall sign such instrument.  For the purpose of certifying under seal true copies of any document or resolution, the seal may be affixed in the presence of any one of the foregoing persons.

24.2

To enable the seal of the Company to be affixed to any bonds, debentures,  share certificates or other securities of the Company, whether in definitive or interim form, on which facsimiles of any of the signatures of the Directors or officers of the Company are, in accordance with the Company Act and/or these Articles, printed or otherwise mechanically reproduced, there may be delivered to the firm or company employed to engrave, lithograph or print such definitive or interim bonds, debentures, share certificates or other securities one or more unmounted dies reproducing the Company's seal and the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Managing Director or a Vice-President and the Secretary, Treasurer, Secretary-Treasurer, or Assistant Secretary, an Assistant Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary-Treasurer may by a document authorize such firm or company to cause the Company's seal to be affixed to such definite or interim bonds, debentures, share certificates or other securities by the use of such dies.  Bonds, debentures, share certificates or other securities to which the Company's seal has been so affixed shall for all purposes be deemed to be under and to bear the Company's seal lawfully affixed thereto.


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24.3

The Company may have for use in any other province, state, territory or country an official seal which shall have on its face the name of the province, state, territory or country where it is to be used and all of the powers conferred by the Company Act with respect thereto may be exercised by the Directors or by a duly authorized agent of the Company.

PART 25

PROHIBITIONS

So long as the Company is a company that is not a reporting company, the following prohibitions shall apply:

25.1

No shares or debt obligations issued by the Company shall be offered for sale to the public.

25.2

No shares shall be transferred without the previous consent of the Directors expressed by a resolution of the Board and the Directors shall not be required to give any reason for refusing to consent to any such proposed transfer.

PART 26

SPECIAL RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS

26.1

The First Preferred Shares as a class shall have attached thereto the following rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions:

(a)

Issuance in Series: The First Preferred Shares may be issued from time to time in one or more series and the Directors may, by resolution, before the issue of any particular series, alter the memorandum of the Company to set the number of shares in, and determine the designation of the shares of, that series and alter the Articles of the Company to create, define and attach special rights and restrictions of and to the shares of that series.

(b)

Ranking of First Preferred Shares: The First Preferred Shares of each series shall, with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets in the event of the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, or any other distribution of the assets of the Company among its members for the purpose of winding up its affairs, rank on a parity with the First Preferred Shares of every other series and be entitled to preference over the Second Preferred Shares, the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares, the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares and the shares of any other class ranking junior to the First Preferred Shares. The First Preferred Shares of any series shall also be entitled to such other preferences, not inconsistent with these provisions, over the Second Preferred Shares, the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares, the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares and the shares of any other class ranking junior to the First Preferred Shares or as may be fixed in accordance with subparagraph 1(a).


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(c)

Approval by Holders of First Preferred Shares: The approval by the holders of the First Preferred Shares with respect to any and all matters referred to herein may, subject to the provisions of the Company Act, be given in writing by the holders of all of the First Preferred Shares for the time being outstanding or by resolution duly passed and carried by not less than three quarters of the votes cast on a poll at a meeting of the holders of the First Preferred Shares duly called and held for the purpose of considering the subject matter of such resolution and at which meeting holders of not less than a majority of all First Preferred Shares then outstanding are present in person or represented by proxy; provided, however, that if at any such meeting, when originally held, the holders of at least a majority of all First Preferred Shares then outstanding are not present in person or represented by proxy within 30 minutes after the time fixed for the meeting, then the meeting shall be adjourned to such date, being not less than 15 days later, and to such time and place, as may be fixed by the chairman of such meeting and at such adjourned meeting the holders of First Preferred Shares present in person or represented by proxy, whether or not they hold a majority of all First Preferred Shares then outstanding, may transact the business for which the meeting was originally called, and a resolution duly passed and carried by not less than three quarters of the votes cast on a poll at such adjourned meeting shall constitute the approval of the holders of the First Preferred Shares hereinbefore mentioned. Notice of any such original meeting of the holders of the First Preferred Shares shall be given not less than 21 days nor more than 50 days prior to the date fixed for such meeting and shall specify in general terms the purpose for which the meeting is called. No notice of any such adjourned meeting need be given unless such meeting is adjourned by one or more adjournments for an aggregate of 30 days or more from the date of such original meeting, in which latter case notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given in the manner prescribed for the original meeting as aforesaid. The formalities to be observed with respect to the giving of notice of any such original meeting or adjourned meeting and the conduct thereof shall be those from time to time prescribed in the Articles of the Company with respect to meetings of the members.

 

26.2

The Second Preferred Shares as a class shall have attached thereto the following rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions:

(a)

Issuance in Series: The Second Preferred Shares may be issued from time to time in one or more series and the Directors may, by resolution, before the issue of any particular series, alter the memorandum of the Company to set the number of shares in, and determine the designation of the shares of, that series and alter the Articles of the Company to create, define and attach special rights and restrictions of and to the shares of that series.

(b)

Ranking of Second Preferred Shares: The Second Preferred Shares of each series shall, with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets in the event of the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, or any other distribution of the assets of the Company among its members for the purpose of winding up its affairs, rank on a parity with the Second Preferred Shares of every other series and be entitled to preference over the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shaes, the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares and the shares of any other class ranking junior to the Second Preferred Shares. The Second Preferred Shares of any series shall also be entitled to such other preferences, not inconsistent with these provisions, over the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares, the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares and the shares of any other class ranking junior to the Second Preferred Shares as may be fixed in accordance with subparagraph 2(a).


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(c)

Approval by Holders of Second Preferred Shares: The approval of the holders of the Second Preferred Shares with respect to any and all matters referred to herein may, subject to the provisions of the Company Act, be given in writing by the holders of all of the Second Preferred Shares for the time being outstanding or by resolution duly passed and carried by not less than three quarters of the votes cast on a poll at a meeting of the holders of the Second Preferred Shares duly called and held for the purpose of considering the subject matter of such resolution and at which meeting holders of not less than a majority of all Second Preferred Shares then outstanding are present in person or represented by proxy; provided, however, that if at any such meeting, when originally held, the holders of at least a majority of all Second Preferred Shares then outstanding are not present in person or represented by proxy within 30 minutes after the time fixed for the meeting, then the meeting shall be adjourned to such date, being not less than 15 days later, and to such time and place, as may be fixed by the chairman of such meeting andat such adjourned meeting the holders of Second Preferred Shares present in person or represented by proxy, whether or not they hold a majority of all Second Preferred Shares then outstanding, may transact the business for which the meeting was originally called, and a resolution duly passed and carried by not less than three-quarters of the votes cast on a poll at such adjourned meeting shall constitute the approval of the holders of the Second Preferred Shares hereinbefore mentioned. Notice of any such original meeting of the holders of the Second Preferred Shares shall be given not less than 21 days nor more than 50 days prior to the date fixed for such meeting and shall specify in general terms the purpose for which the meeting is called. No notice of any such adjourned meeting need be given unless such meeting is adjourned by one or more adjournments for an aggregate of 30 days or more from the date of such original meeting, in which latter case notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given in the manner prescribed for the original meeting as aforesaid. The formalities to be observed with respect to the giving of notice of any such original meeting or adjourned meeting and the conduct thereof shall be those from time to time prescribed in the Articles of the Company with respect to meetings of members.


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26.3

The Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares as a class have attached thereto the following rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions:

(a)

Dividends: The holders of the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares shall be entitled to receive dividends, if, as and when declared by the board of directors of the Company out of the assets of the Company properly applicable to the payment of dividends in such amounts and payable at such times and at such place or places in Canada as the board of directors may, from time to time, determine. Subject to the rights of the holders of any other class of shares of the Company entitled to receive dividends in priority to or rateably with Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares, the board of directors may, in their sole discretion, declare dividends on the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares to the exclusion of any other class of shares of the Company. The holders of the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares shall be entitled to participate rateably in dividends on the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares;

(b)

Participation Upon Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up: In the event of the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company or other distribution of the assets of the Company among its members for the purpose of winding up its affairs, the holders of the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares shall, subject to the rights of the holders of any other class of shares of the Company entitled to receive the assets of the Company upon such distribution in priority to the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares, be entitled to participate rateably with the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares in any distribution of the assets of the Company;

(c)

Voting Rights: The holders of the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of and to attend all annual and special meetings of the members of the Company and to one vote in respect of each Class “A” Subordinate Voting Share held at all such meetings;

(d)

Idem: Neither the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares nor the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares shall be subdivided, consolidated or reclassified or otherwise changed unless contemporaneously therewith the other said class of shares is subdivided, consolidated, reclassified or otherwise changed in the same proportion and in the same manner;

(e)

Conversion Privilege:

(1)

For the purposes of subsections (e)(1) to (e)(9):

"affiliate" has the meaning set forth in the Securities Act (British Columbia) as amended from time to time;

"associate" has the meaning set forth in the Securities Act (British Columbia) as amended from time to time;

"Conversion Period" means the period of time commencing on the eighth day after the Offer Date and terminating on the Expiry Date;


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"Converted Shares" means Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares resulting from the conversion of Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares into Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares pursuant to subsection (e)(2);

"Exclusionary Offer" means an offer to purchase Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares that:

(i)

must, by reason of applicable securities legislation or the requirements of a stock exchange on which the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares are listed, be made to all or substantially all holders of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares who are in a province or territory of Canada to which the requirement applies; and

(ii)

is not made concurrently with an offer to purchase Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares that is identical to the offer to purchase Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares in terms of price per share and percentage of outstanding shares to be taken up exclusive of shares owned immediately prior to the offer by the Offeror and in all other material respects (except with respect to the conditions that may be attached to the offer for Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares), and that has no condition attached other than the right not to take up and pay for shares tendered if no shares are purchased pursuant to the offer for Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, and, for the purposes of this definition, if an offer to purchase Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares is not an Exclusionary Offer as defined above but would be an Exclusionary Offer if it were not for subclause (ii), the varying of any term of such offer shall be deemed to constitute the making of a new offer unless an identical variation concurrently is made to the corresponding offer to purchase Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares;

"Expiry Date" means the last date upon which holders of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares may accept an Exclusionary Offer;

"Offer Date" means the date on which an Exclusionary Offer is made;

"Offeror" means a person or company that makes an offer to purchase Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares (the "bidder"), and includes any associate or affiliate of the bidder or any person or company that is disclosed in the offering document as acting jointly or in concert with the bidder; and

"transfer agent" means the transfer agent for the tiane being of the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares.

(2)

Subject to subsection (e)(5), if an Exclusionary Offer is made, each outstanding Class “A” Subordinate Voting Share shall be convertible into one Class “B” Multiple Voting Share at the option of the holder during the Conversion Period. The conversion right may be exercised by notice in writing given to the transfer agent accompanied by the share certificate or certificates representing the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares which the holder desires to convert, and such notice shall be executed by such holder, or by his attorney duly authorized in writing, and shall specify the number of Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares which the holder desires to have converted. The holder shall pay any governmental or other tax imposed on or in respect of such conversion. Upon receipt by the transfer agent of such notice and share certificate or certificates, the Company shall issue a share certificate representing fully paid Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares as above described and in accordance with subsection (e)(4). If less than all of the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares represented by any share certificate are to be converted, the holder shall be entitled to receive a new share certificate representing in the aggregate the number of Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares represented by the original share certificate which are not to be converted.

(3)


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(3)

An election by a holder of Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares to exercise the conversion right provided for in subsection (e)(2) shall be deemed to also constitute irrevocable elections by such holder to deposit the Converted Shares pursuant to the Exclusionary Offer (subject to such holder's right to subsequently withdraw the shares from the offer) and to exercise the right to convert into Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares all Converted Shares in respect of which such holder exercises a right of withdrawal from the Exclusionary Offer or which are not otherwise ultimately taken up under the Exclusionary Offer. Any conversion into Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares, pursuant to such deemed election, of Converted Shares in respect of which the holder exercises a right of withdrawal from the Exclusionary Offer shall become effective at the time such right of withdrawal is exercised. If the right of withdrawal is not exercised, any conversion into Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to such deemed election shall become effective,

(i)

in respect of an Exclusionary Offer which is completed, immediately following the time by which the Offeror is required by applicable securities legislation to take up and pay for all shares to be acquired by the Offeror under the Exclusionary Offer; and

(ii)

in respect of an Exclusionary Offer which is abandoned or withdrawn, at the time at which the Exclusionary Offer is abandoned or withdrawn.

(4)

No share certificates representing Converted Shares shall be delivered to the holders of such shares before such shares are deposited pursuant to the Exclusionary Offer; the transfer agent, on behalf of the holders of the Converted Shares, shall deposit pursuant to the Exclusionary Offer a certificate or certificates representing the Converted Shares. Upon completion of the offer, the transfer agent shall deliver to the holders entitled thereto all consideration paid by the Offeror for the Converted Shares pursuant to the offer. If Converted Shares are converted into Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to subsection (e)(3), the transfer agent shall deliver to the holders entitled thereto share certificates representing the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares resulting from the conversion. The Company shall make all arrangements with the transfer agent necessary or desirable to give effect to this subsection (e)(4).


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(5)

Subject to subsection (e)(6), the conversion right provided for in subsection (e)(2) shall not come into effect if:

(a)

prior to the time at which the offer is made there is delivered to the transfer agent and to the Secretary of the Company a certificate or certificates signed by or on behalf of one or more members of the Company owning in the aggregate, as at the time the Exclusionary Offer is made, more than 50% of the then outstanding Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, exclusive of shares owned immediately prior to the Exclusionary Offer by the Offeror, which certificate or certificates shall confirm, in the case of each such shareholder, that such shareholder shall not:

(i)

tender any shares in acceptance of any Exclusionary Offer without giving the transfer agent and the Secretary of the Company written notice of such acceptance or intended acceptance at least seven days prior to the Expiry Date;

(ii)

make any Exclusionary Offer;

(iii)

act jointly or in concert with any person or company that makes any Exclusionary Offer; or

(iv)

transfer any Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, directly or indirectly, during the time at which any Exclusionary Offer is outstanding without giving the transfer agent and the Secretary of the Company written notice of such transfer or intended transfer at least seven days prior to the Expiry Date, which notice shall state, if known to the transferor, the names of the transferees and the number of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares transferred or to be transferred to each transferee; or

(b)

as of the end of the seventh day after the Offer Date there has been delivered to the transfer agent and to the Secretary of the Company a certificate or certificates signed by or on behalf of one or more members of the Company owning in the aggregate more than 50% of the then outstanding Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, exclusive of shares owned immediately prior to the Exclusionary Offer by the Offeror, which certificate or certificates shall confirm, in the case of each such shareholder:

(i)

the number of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares owned by the shareholder;


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(ii)

that such shareholder is not making the offer and is not an associate or affiliate of, or acting jointly or in concert with, the person or company making the offer;

(iii)

that such shareholder shall not tender any shares in acceptance of the offer, including any varied form of the offer, without giving the transfer agent and the Secretary of the Company written notice of such acceptance or intended acceptance at least seven days prior to the Expiry Date; and

(iv)

that such shareholder shall not transfer any Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, directly or indirectly, prior to the Expiry Date without giving the transfer agent and the Secretary of the Company written notice of such transfer or intended transfer at least seven days prior to the Expiry Date, which notice shall state, if known to the transferor, the names of the transferees and the number of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares transferred or to be transferred to each transferee; or

(c)

as of the end of the seventh day after the Offer Date a combination of certificates that comply with either clause (a) or (b) from members of the Company owning in the aggregate more than 50% of the then outstanding Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, exclusive of shares owned immediately prior to the Exclusionary Offer by the Offeror, has been delivered to the transfer agent and to the Secretary of the Company.

(6)

If a notice referred to in sub-clause (e)(5)(a)(i), (e)(5)(a)(iv), (e)(5)(b)(iii) or (e)(5)(b)(iv) is given and the conversion right provided for in subsection (e)(2) has not come into effect, the transfer agent shall either forthwith upon receipt of the notice or forthwith after the seventh day following the Offer Date, whichever is later, determine the number of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares in respect of which there are subsisting certificates that comply with either clause (e)(5)(a) or (e)(5)(b). For the purposes of this determination, certificates in respect of which such notice has been filed shall not be regarded as subsisting insofar as the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares to which the notice relates are concerned, the transfer that is the subject of any notice referred to in sub-clause (e)(5)(a)(iv) or (e)(5)(b)(iv) shall be deemed to have already taken place at the time of the determination, and the transferee in the case of any notice referred to in sub-clause (e)(5)(a)(iv) or (e)(5)(b)(iv) shall be deemed to be a person or company from whom the transfer agent does not have a subsisting certificate unless the transfer agent is advised of the identity of the transferee, either by such notice or by the transferee in writing, and such transferee is a person or company from whom the transfer agent has a subsisting certificate. If the number of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares so determined does not exceed 50% of the number of the then outstanding Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, exclusive of shares owned immediately prior to the offer by the Offeror, subsection (e)(5) shall cease to apply and the conversion right provided for in subsection (e)(2) shall be in effect for the remainder of the Conversion Period.


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(7)

As soon as reasonably possible after the seventh day after the Offer Date, the Company shall send to each holder of Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares a notice advising the holders as to whether they are entitled to convert their Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares into Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares and the reasons therefor. If such notice discloses that they are not so entitled but it is subsequently determined that they are so entitled by virtue of subsection (e)(6) or otherwise, the Company shall forthwith send another notice to them advising them of that fact and the reasons therefor.

(8)

If a notice referred to in subsection (e)(7) discloses that the conversion right has come into effect, the notice shall:

(i)

include a description of the procedures to be followed to effect the conversion and to have the Converted Shares tendered under the offer;

(ii)

include the information set out in subsection (e)(3) hereof; and

(iii)

be accompanied by a copy of the offer and all other material sent to holders of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares in respect of the offer, and as soon as reasonably possible after any additional material, including a notice of variation, is sent to the holders of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares in respect of the offer, the Company shall send a copy of such additional material to each holder of Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares.

(9)

Prior to or forthwith after sending any notice referred to in subsection (e)(7), the Company shall cause a press release to be issued to a Canadian national news wire service, describing the contents of the notice.  No factional Class “B” Multiple Voting Share or Class “A” Subordinate Voting  Share shall be issued; any fractional Class “B” Multiple Voting Share or Class “A” Subordinate Voting Share which would otherwise be issued shall be rounded up to the next whole share; all Common Shares of a particular registered holder shall be aggregated for this purpose.


26.4

The Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares as a class shall have attached thereto the following rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions:

(a)

Dividends: The holders of the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares shall be entitled to receive dividends, if, as and when declared by the board of directors of the Company out of the assets of the Company properly applicable to the payment of dividends in such amounts and payable at such times and at such place or places in Canada as the board of directors may, from time to time, determine. Subject to the rights of the holders of any other class of shares of the Company entitled to receive dividends in priority to or rateably with Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, the board of directors may, in its sole discretion, declare dividends on the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares to the exclusion of any other class of shares of the Company. The holders of the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares shall be entitled to receive dividends rateably with the holders of the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares;


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(b)

Participation Upon Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up: In the event of the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company or other distribution of the assets of the Company among its members for the purpose of winding up its affairs, the holders of the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares shall, subject to the rights of the holders of any other class of shares of the Company entitled to receive the assets of the Company upon such distribution in priority to the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares, be entitled to participate rateably with the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares in any distribution of the assets of the Company;

(c)

Voting Rights: The holders of the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of and to attend all annual and special meetings of the members of the Company and to five votes in respect of each Class “B” Multiple Voting Share held at all such meetings;

(d)

Conversion Privilege: Each issued and outstanding Class “B” Multiple Voting Share may, at any time, be converted, at the option of the holder, into one Class “A” Subordinate Voting Share. The conversion privilege herein provided for may be exercised by notice in writing given to the Company accompanied by a certificate or certificates representing the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares in respect of which the holder thereof desires to exercise such right of conversion and such notice shall be signed by the person registered on the books of the Company as the holder of the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares in respect of which such right is being exercised or by his duly authorized attorney and shall specify the number of Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares which the holder desires to have converted. The holder shall also pay any governmental or other tax imposed in respect of such transaction. Upon receipt of such notice, the Company shall issue certificates representing fully paid Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares upon the basis above described in accordance with the provisions hereof to the registered holder of the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares represented by the certificate or certificates accompanying such notice. If less than all of the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares represented by any certificate are to be converted, the holder thereof shall be entitled to receive a new certificate for the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares representing the shares comprised in the original certificate which are not to be converted. All shares resulting from any conversion of issued and outstanding Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares into Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares pursuant to this clause shall be deemed to be fully paid and non­assessable; and

(e)


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Idem: Neither the Class “B” Multiple Voting Shares nor the Class “A” Subordinate Voting Shares shall be subdivided, consolidated or reclassified or otherwise changed unless contemporaneously therewith the other said class of shares is subdivided, consolidated, reclassified or otherwise changed in the same proportion and in the same manner.

 

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Sandra Lee, Secretary