The Ontario government updated the mandatory Proxy Form and
released it on May 10, 2018. This new Proxy Form will need to be
used going forward.
We are pleased to offer everyone a guide to completing this new
form: Proxy Form Guide
The main substantive changes to the new Proxy Form are 1) the
less-often used sections for requisitions, special voting, and
owner-occupied voting are collapsed by default, making the form
shorter and more straightforward; and 2) the choices for how a form
will be used have been expanded to quorum only, quorum and routine
matters, or quorum and all voting. These choices also now make it
clear that, if the proxy is appointed to vote on all matters,
and no specific voting instructions are inserted
in the applicable sections, the proxy may nominate and vote on all
matters as if present. That is, the proxy should receive a ballot
to vote for directors or other matters as the case may be, again,
subject to any specific instructions completed
