Source: http://www.gwvlaw.com/blog/members/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 06:32:20+00:00

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By Wayne Gray of Gray, Whitley LLP posted in Members on Thursday, September 20, 2018.
The Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act permits the members of non-soliciting corporations to enter into a unanimous member agreement ("UMA"). If the corporation has only one member, it may sign a unanimous member declaration ("UMD") that is deemed to be a UMA. As the name makes clear, all members of the corporation (including non-voting members) must be parties to the UMA. A UMA is an otherwise lawful written agreement that restricts the powers of the directors to manage, or supervise the management of, the activities and affairs of the non-soliciting corporation.
By Wayne Gray of Gray, Whitley LLP posted in Members on Monday, July 9, 2018.
Under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, the articles or by-laws of a not-for-profit ("NFP") corporation may provide that an organ of the corporation has the power to discipline a member or terminate a membership. Notably, this disciplinary provision is opt-in. The decision-making organ can consist of the directors, a committee of directors or a committee of members of the corporation. Presumably, all of the members or all of the voting members could also comprise a committee of members for this purpose.
By Wayne Gray of Gray, Whitley LLP posted in Members on Friday, May 18, 2018.
In D.S. Park Waldheim Inc. v. Nagy (decided 2008), Deputy Justice Freeman of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that minority members of a non-profit housing association were liable to contribute to the cost of subdividing the land so that members would be able to register the title of their lands.
By Wayne Gray of Gray, Whitley LLP posted in Members on Friday, December 29, 2017.
In Banda v. Romanian Cdn. Cultural Club (decided 1986), the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal overturned a lower-court decision and restored the decision of a majority of the members of a non-profit association to terminate a membership.
In Ottawa Humane Society v. Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (decided September 2017), Justice Beaudoin of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice upheld the conversion of an prominent Ontario charitable corporation into a closed membership corporation, in which the directors were the only voting members. The court found that the adoption of a closed membership was a corporate best practice and fell within the proper exercise of the board's business judgment.
In Conacher v. Rosedale Golf Assn. (decided 2002), Justice Chapnik of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that the members of a corporation without share capital (a golf club) had no standing to sue the club over its refusal to admit their son as a member. Their claim was found to have no basis in law and was held to be frivolous and vexatious.
In Trumbley v. Sask. Amateur Hockey Assn. (decided 1986), the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled that there is a distinction between the non-renewal of a membership and a termination or suspension of a current member.
By Wayne Gray of Gray, Whitley LLP posted in Members on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
In Whittall v. Vancouver Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club (decided in 2005), the British Columbia Court of Appeal reconciled the apparent inconsistency between a life membership and the ability of the voting members of the corporation to unilaterally vary the conditions of membership. In effect, the status of a life member is subject to the right of the members of the corporation to vary membership classes or groups - including requiring members who were formerly exempt from paying dues to start paying annual dues.
By Wayne Gray of Gray, Whitley LLP posted in Members on Monday, May 15, 2017.
The separate legal personality of a for-profit corporation has long been recognized as giving its shareholders limited liability. But is this also the case for the members of not-for-profit corporations?

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