Sure, but this would apply, obviously, to any company that wanted to take advantage of it and establish employee share purchase. This can also apply to privately held Canadian-controlled companies. It doesn't have to be a publicly traded entity. If you can create shares in your own company, a privately held company, you can have those shares purchased by your employees. You would simply have to make sure that at some point--
On December 4th, 2007. See this statement in context.