An Act to authorize La Capitale Financial Security Insurance Company to apply to be continued as a body corporate under the laws of the Province of Quebec

How it changed on the way

23% of the text as introduced was changed or removed by the time it became law (412 words introduced, 413 passed).

minor changeintent kept

The bill's single operative clause stayed exactly the same. Only the date stamp and a procedural line were updated between introduction and royal assent.

How precisely it is written

preciseChallenging the law: HardDisputing a charge: Hard

The bill uses exact corporate names, incorporation dates, and a direct statutory reference to grant one narrow permission. No subjective standards or open-ended discretion appear in the operative text.

Clear-cut

• “Despite subsection 39(5) of the Insurance Companies Act , the Company may apply to be continued as a body corporate under the laws of the Province of Quebec as if it had been incorporated under those laws.”

  Names the exact subsection overridden and limits the power to one named company and one province.

• “On the day on which it is continued as a body corporate under the laws of the Province of Quebec, the Company ceases to be governed by the Insurance Companies Act .”

  Supplies an objective trigger date and automatic legal consequence with no further conditions.

Discretion. No power is delegated to any minister, official, or regulation-making authority; the authorization is complete on enactment.

Challenging the law itself. The enactment is a narrow, company-specific permission that engages no identifiable Charter right or vagueness doctrine.

Disputing a charge under it. The text creates no prohibition or duty applicable to any person other than the single named company, leaving nothing to dispute.

Read by a language model from the royal assent text; every quoted phrase appears in the bill. A reading of the drafting, not legal advice.