DEFINITIONS
For the purposes hereof, the following definitions are included for convenience:
“affiliate” means an issuer connected with another issuer because: (a) one of them is the subsidiary of the other, or (b) each of them is controlled by the same person;
“bank” means a bank named in Schedule I or II of the Bank Act (Canada);
“Canadian financial institution” means (i) an association governed by the Cooperative Credit Associations Act (Canada) or a central cooperative credit society for which an order has been made under section 473(1) of that Act, or (ii) a bank, loan corporation, trust company, trust corporation, insurance company, treasury branch, credit union, caisse populaire, financial services cooperative, or league that, in each case, is authorized by an enactment of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada to carry on business in Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada;
“company” means any corporation, incorporated association, incorporated syndicate or other incorporated organization;
“director” means (a) a member of the board of directors of a company or an individual who performs similar functions for a company; and (b) with respect to a person that is not a company, an individual who performs functions similar to those of a director of a company;
“entity” means a company, syndicate, partnership, trust or unincorporated organization;
“executive officer” means, for an issuer, an individual who is: (a) a chair, vice-chair or president, (b) a vice-president in charge of a principal business unit, division or function including sales, finance or production, or (c) performing a policy-making function in respect of the issuer;
“financial assets” means (i) cash, (ii) securities, or (iii) a contract of insurance, a deposit or an evidence of a deposit that is not a security for the purposes of securities legislation;
“foreign jurisdiction” means a country other than Canada or a political subdivision of a country other than Canada;
“fully managed account” means an account of a client for which a person makes the investment decisions if that person has full discretion to trade in securities for the account without requiring the client’s express consent to a transaction;
“individual” means a natural person, but does not include a partnership, unincorporated association, unincorporated organization, trust or a natural person in his or her capacity as trustee, executor, administrator or other legal personal representative;.
“investment fund” means a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund, and, for greater certainty in British Columbia, includes an employee venture capital corporation that does not have a restricted constitution, and is registered under Part 2 of the Employee Investment Act (British Columbia), R.S.B.C. 1996 c. 112, and whose business objective is making multiple investments and a venture capital corporation registered under Part 1 of the Small Business Venture Capital Act (British Columbia), R.S.B.C. 1996 c. 429 whose business objective is making multiple investments;
“jurisdiction” means a province or territory of Canada except when used in the term foreign jurisdiction;
“net assets” means the value of the total assets of the purchaser less the value of the total liabilities;
“permitted assign” means, for a person that is an employee, executive officer, director or consultant of an issuer or of a related entity of the issuer,
| (a) | a trustee, custodian, or administrator acting on behalf of, or for the benefit of the person, |
| (b) | a holding entity of the person, |
| (c) | an RRSP or RRIF of the person, |