Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act
The Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA; French: Loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies) is a statute of the Parliament of Canada that allows insolvent corporations owing their creditors in excess of $5 million to restructure their businesses and financial affairs. == The CCAA within the Canadian insolvency regime == In 1990, the British Columbia Court of Appeal discussed the background behind the introduction of the CCAA in one of its rulings: The CCAA was enacted by Parliament in 1933 when the nation and the world were in the grip of an economic depression.
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