Industry committee  We don't have accurate stats, but based on our experience, it's about 50-50. Some jurisdictions require that you have to incorporate through a lawyer or through an agent, but because we offer it online, they could do it themselves.

Industry committee  Primarily online. We also distribute our guides and other support materials through entrepreneurship centres or Canada business centres. Also, we attend trade shows or shows where entrepreneurs would attend.

Industry committee  What we're doing now is using email to remind businesses of when they have to file their annual returns. There are jurisdictions, such as New Zealand, that are taking technology a bit further and we could gain some experience from them. For instance, they send SMS messages to cel

Industry committee  If they want to protect their corporate name, it would be in their interest to federally incorporate, because once a name is given to a federal corporation, they could use that name throughout Canada; whereas if you're provincially incorporated and you want to go into another pro

Industry committee  We have a number of support materials. One of our most used support materials is the Guide to Federal Incorporation to Help Small Businesses Incorporate Federally. We have that online and we have it on paper. A Google search for “incorporation” or “incorporate” comes right after

Industry committee  It is 1-866, actually.

Industry committee  They can get a certificate of incorporation within hours on our online filing. They can choose it as an option. If they want a very simple share structure, we have one provided for them. They can just click that. And if they want a numbered name they can click that and get it alm

Industry committee  With online filing they are still required to give us the same information, but you could give them more assistance--for instance, a predefined share structure so they don't have to do all that work. If they did it on paper they would be incorporated within five days, whereas onl

Industry committee  Where we rank very highly on the World Bank's ease of doing business index is for starting up. What they've measured is how long it actually takes to incorporate and get your necessary account. Because you could incorporate very quickly, within a day—and we also are in partnershi

Industry committee  Yes. They actually measure how many steps you have to take and how long it takes. Some jurisdictions take months, for instance, to incorporate, so we look very good compared to them.

Industry committee  It goes actually beyond the CBCA. One of them is access to financing, trade, and contracts, in terms of contract negotiations that have contract enforcement. So there are other things that are really outside of the CBCA.

Industry committee  No, there isn't. However, if they do operate in Quebec, they have to comply with Quebec legislation, including the language charter. If they operate in any of the provinces they do have to register in the province. And Quebec also has specific registration requirements, one of th

Industry committee  My understanding is that any CBCA corporation who is operating in Quebec would have to respect Quebec legislation, including the language charter.

Industry committee  The only thing we collect from them is where they're going to locate their province of registered office. We don't ask them where they're going to conduct their activities.

Industry committee  Yes.