(a) a corporation is deemed to have had not fewer than five full-time employees who are neither insiders within the meaning of section 89 of the Securities Act (chapter V-1.1) nor persons related to such insiders, ifi. throughout the 12-month period preceding the date of the receipt for the final prospectus or of the exemption from filing a prospectus, a class of shares of its capital stock is listed on a designated stock exchange located in Canada, and
ii. a person, other than such an insider or a person related to such an insider, or a partnership provides the corporation, in the period described in subparagraph i, with services under a service contract and the corporation would normally require the services of more than five full-time employees if those services were not provided; and