965.11.5. A corporation that makes a public share issue, a convertible security issue or a non-guaranteed convertible security issue is a qualified corporation if, on the date of the receipt for the final prospectus or of the exemption from filing a prospectus,(a) it is a Canadian corporation whose head office or principal place of business is in Québec;
(b) (subparagraph repealed);
(c) substantially all its property consists of shares of the capital stock of one or more of its subsidiary controlled corporations or of loans or advances granted to such subsidiary corporations;
(d) one of the subsidiary corporations meets the requirements of paragraphs a to d of section 965.10 and had not fewer than five full-time employees who are not insiders within the meaning of section 89 of the Securities Act (chapter V-1.1) or persons related to such insidersi. throughout the 12 months preceding that date, or
ii. throughout the six months preceding that date where(1) it has already made a public issue of shares with the stipulation that they could be included in a stock savings plan, and
(2) a class of shares of the capital stock of the corporation is listed on a Canadian stock exchange on that date.
For the purposes of subparagraph i of subparagraph d of the first paragraph, a subsidiary is deemed to have had not fewer than five full-time employees who are not insiders within the meaning of section 89 of the Securities Act or persons related to such insiders, where (a) a class of shares of its capital stock is, throughout the 12-month period preceding the date of the receipt for the final prospectus or of the exemption from filing a prospectus, listed on a Canadian stock exchange; and
(b) a person, other than such an insider or a person related thereto, or a partnership provides the subsidiary, in the period referred to in subparagraph a, with services under a service contract and the subsidiary would normally require the services of more than five full-time employees if those services were not provided.