Comments on: Authors as Companions, Officers, and Members http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/03/authors-as-officers/ Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada's magazine of book news and reviews Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: David Wozney http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/03/authors-as-officers/comment-page-1/#comment-7774 David Wozney Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:05:21 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/03/authors-as-officers/#comment-7774 Re: “… Governor General Michaëlle Jean …”

The Governor General of Canada is a “corporation sole”, according to Elizabeth II in this document. A “corporation sole” is defined and recognized as being a corporation.

It is a fiction that a corporation is a person.

“A corporation is a fiction, by definition, …”, according to Patrick Healy in a statement found here.

“A corporation is a ‘fiction’ as it has no separate existence, no physical body and no ‘mind’”, according to this presentation by Joanne Klineberg.

Do Canadians want businesses, companies, their government, and their Queen to operate in the realm of reality, or in the realm of fiction?

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