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Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World: The Political Foundations of Shareholder Power, by Christopher Bruner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 318pp. ISBN: 978-1-1070-1329-2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2015

Anita Anand  and
William Muir
Anita Anand
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
William Muir
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 143 - 146
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NOTES

1. UK Companies Act 2006, c. 46, s. 172(1).

2. See BCE Inc. v. 1976 Debentureholders, [2008] 3 SCR 560 at para. 39 (affirming the broad corporate purpose recognized in Peoples Dept. Stores Inc. v. Wise [2004] 3 SCR 461 at paras. 41-43). See Edward Iacoboucci, “Indeterminacy and the Canadian Supreme Court’s Approach to Corporate Fiduciary Duties” (2009) 48 Can Bus LJ 232.

3. National Policy 62-202 Take-Over Bids-Defensive Tactics, OSC NP 62-202, s. 1.1(2).

4. Jeffrey MacIntosh, “BCE and the Peoples’ Corporate Law: Learning to Live on Quicksand” (2009) 48 Can Bus LJ 255, at 270-271. See also Iacobucci, supra note 14 at 248.

5. See Minister of Finance and the Economy Nicolas Marceau, “2014-2015 Budget Speech” (speech delivered at the National Assembly of Québec, February 20, 2014), http://www.budget.finances.gouv.qc.ca.

6. Frederic Tomesco, “Quebec Aims to Save Head Office Jobs by Blocking Bids,” Bloomberg News (February 21, 2014), http://www.bloomberg.com.