Tag: Debt

Provincial Trusts in a Bankruptcy

In The Guarantee Company of North America v. Royal Bank of Canada, 2019 ONCA 9 the Court of Appeal held that the statutory trust created by s.8 of the Construction Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.30 (the CA) is a trust...

By Merovitz Potechin on Monday May 13, 2019.

Government Student Loans and Bankruptcy in Canada

As bankruptcy practitioners are aware, there was a time when the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (the "BIA") did not afford the special status to government student loans as it does now. During that time, however, the case law developed to...

By Merovitz Potechin on Friday February 8, 2019.