Why am I not allowed to vote in person at the Companys annual meeting for which I am a holder?
When you purchased your shares you were probably advised that it would be easier to sell them if they were maintained in your account at the investment dealer through which you made your purchase. If you did request a certificate there probably would have been an additional fee on top of the commission paid to cover the processing costs of having a certificate issued in your name. If you had a certificate issued to you and delivered it to your investment dealer then the certificate would have been “deposited” to your account. What happens is that the certificate instead of being issued or if issued and then delivered to your investment dealer, is cancelled* and the shares are credited to the investment dealers share position in CDS (The Canadian Depository for Securities). At this point in time you become a non-registered or beneficial owner of those shares, as they are not registered in your name. Instead, they are registered in the name of CDS & Co. The laws that govern Canadian corp
