Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mountain Equipment Co-operative used insolvency proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act to sell its business to a private equity firm. A group of members unsuccessfully challenged the sale in court, raising arguments about the court’s power to approve the sale, the fiduciary obligations of the cooperative’s directors and the oppression remedy. This article suggests that the court would have been justified in granting a remedy to the dissenting members if it had attended to how cooperatives differ from standard corporations. This article highlights salient differences between cooperatives and corporations and then analyzes how these differences were relevant to the court’s analysis of its power to approve the sale, the director’s fiduciary obligations, and the oppression remedy. The sale of Mountain Equipment Co-operative underlines the importance of paying careful attention to a debtor’s legal form in insolvency when the debtor is not a standard corporation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.036 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".