ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA and THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK Co-Lead Arrangers and Co-Administration Agents ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Syndication Agent CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK...
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COMMUNICATIONS INC.
AND
THE
LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME
PARTY
TO THIS AGREEMENT
AND
THE
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA and THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
Co-Lead
Arrangers and Co-Administration Agents
ROYAL
BANK OF CANADA
Syndication
Agent
CANADIAN
IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, CITIBANK N.A.
and
BANK OF MONTREAL
Co-Documentation
Agents
THE
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
as
Agent
$2,400,000,000
REVOLVING TERM CREDIT
CREDIT
AGREEMENT DATED 29 JUNE 2007
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TORYS
LLP
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE
1 INTERPRETATION
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2
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1.1
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Defined
Terms
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2
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1.2
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Construction
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15
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1.3
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Certain
Rules of Interpretation
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15
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1.4
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Terms
Generally
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15
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1.5
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Performance
on Business Days
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1.6
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Accounting
Terms
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ARTICLE
2 THE CREDIT
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2.1
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Amount
and Availment Options
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2.2
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Existing
L/Cs and Overdrafts
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2.3
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Reborrowing
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17
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2.4
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Use
of the Credit
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2.5
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Term
and Repayment
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2.6
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Interest
Rates and Fees
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18
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2.7
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Guarantees
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2.8
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Exchange
Rate Fluctuations
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ARTICLE
3 DISBURSEMENT CONDITIONS
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3.1
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Conditions
Precedent to Initial Advance
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3.1.1
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Corporate
Information
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20
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3.1.2
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Documents
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20
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3.1.3
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Liens
and Credit Facilities
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20
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3.1.4
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Financial
Information
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3.1.5
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Opinions
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3.1.6
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Other
Matters
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21
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3.2
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Conditions
Precedent to all Advances
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ARTICLE
4 ADVANCES
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4.1
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Lenders'
Obligations Relating to L/Cs and TD and BNS Tranches
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4.2
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Exceptions
Relating to TD and BNS Tranches
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22
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4.3
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Evidence
of Obligations
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4.4
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Conversions
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4.5
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Notice
of Advances and Payments
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23
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4.6
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Prepayments
and Reductions
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24
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4.7
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Prime
Rate, Base Rate and LIBOR Advances
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4.8
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LIBOR
Periods
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4.9
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Termination
of LIBOR Advances
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4.10
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Co-ordination
of Prime Rate, Base Rate and LIBOR Advances
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4.11
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Inability
to Determine Rates Etc.
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4.12
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Execution
of Bankers' Acceptances
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4.13
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Other
Reference Lenders
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27
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4.14
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Sale
of Bankers' Acceptances
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4.15
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Size
and Maturity of Bankers' Acceptances and Rollovers
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4.16
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Co-ordination
of BA Advances
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4.17
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Non
BA Lender
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30
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4.18
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Payment
of Bankers' Acceptances
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30
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4.19
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Deemed
Advance - Bankers' Acceptances
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31
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4.20
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Waiver
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4.21
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Degree
of Care
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31
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4.22
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Indemnity
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4.23
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Obligations
Absolute
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4.24
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Shortfall
on Drawdowns, Rollovers and Conversions
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4.25
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Prohibited
Use of Bankers' Acceptances
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4.26
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Failure
of Lender to Fund
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4.27
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Payments
by the Borrower
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4.28
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Payments
by Agent
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4.29
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Prohibited
Rates of Interest
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4.30
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Issuance
and Maturity of L/Cs
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4.31
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Payment
of L/C Fees
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36
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4.32
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Payment
of L/Cs
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36
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4.33
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Deemed
Advance - L/Cs
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37
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4.34
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Prohibited
Use of L/Cs
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ARTICLE
5 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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5.1
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Representations
and Warranties
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37
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5.1.1
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Corporate
Matters
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37
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5.1.2
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Loan
Documents
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38
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5.1.3
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Litigation,
Financial Statements Etc.
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38
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5.2
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Survival
of Representations and Warranties
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ARTICLE
6 COVENANTS AND CONDITIONS
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40
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6.1
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Financial
Covenants
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40
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6.2
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Positive
Covenants
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40
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6.2.1
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General
Covenants
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6.2.2
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Inspection
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41
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6.3
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Reporting
and Notice Requirements
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6.3.1
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Periodic
Reports
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42
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6.3.2
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Requirements
for Notice
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6.4
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Restricted
Subsidiaries
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43
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6.5
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Negative
Covenants
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43
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6.5.1
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Limitation
on Secured Debt Etc.
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44
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6.5.2
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Limitation
on Sale and Leaseback Transactions
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44
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6.5.3
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Limitation
on Restricted Subsidiary Debt
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44
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6.5.4
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Corporate
Matters
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ARTICLE
7 DEFAULT
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7.1
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Events
of Default
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46
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7.2
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Acceleration
and Termination of Rights
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47
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7.3
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Payment
of L/Cs and Bankers' Acceptances
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48
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7.4
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Remedies
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48
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7.5
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Perform
Obligations
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7.6
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Remedies
Cumulative
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7.7
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Set-Off
or Compensation
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ARTICLE
8 THE AGENT AND THE LENDERS
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8.1
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Authorization
of Agent
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8.2
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Rights
as a Lender
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8.3
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Exculpatory
Provisions
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50
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8.4
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Reliance
by Agent
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50
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8.5
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Delegation
of Duties
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51
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8.6
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Direct
Payments
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8.7
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Administration
of the Credit
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52
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8.8
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Rights
of Agent
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8.9
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Acknowledgements,
Representations and Covenants of Lenders
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55
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8.10
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Collective
Action of the Lenders
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56
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8.11
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Successor
Agent
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8.12
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No
Other Duties etc.
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8.13
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Provisions
Operative Between Lenders and Agent Only
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ARTICLE
9 ADDITIONAL LENDERS, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
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9.1
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Successors
and Assigns
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9.2
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Assignments
by Lenders
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9.3
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Register
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9.4
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Participations
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ARTICLE
10 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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10.1
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Severability
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10.2
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Amendment,
Supplement or Waiver
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10.3
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Governing
Law
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10.4
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This
Agreement to Govern
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10.5
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Currency
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10.6
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Liability
of Lenders
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62
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10.7
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Expenses
and Indemnity
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62
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10.8
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Taxes
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10.9
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Increased
Costs etc.
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10.10
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Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
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10.11
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Illegality
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10.12
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Interest
on Cash Collateral
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67
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10.13
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Currency
Indemnity
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10.14
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Notices
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68
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10.15
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Time
of the Essence
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69
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10.16
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Further
Assurances
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69
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10.17
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Term
of Agreement
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69
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10.18
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Counterparts
and Facsimile
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69
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10.19
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Waiver
of Jury Trial
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10.20
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Treatment
of Certain Information: Confidentiality
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10.21
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Entire
Agreement
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10.22
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Date
of Agreement
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SCHEDULE
A
NOTICE
OF
ADVANCE OR PAYMENT
SCHEDULE
B
COMPLIANCE
CERTIFICATE
SCHEDULE
C
ASSIGNMENT
AND ASSUMPTION
SCHEDULE
D
LENDERS
AND THEIR INITIAL COMMITMENTS
SCHEDULE
E
CHANGE
IN
CONTROL PROVISIONS
SCHEDULE
F
INFORMATION
THAT MAY BE DISCLOSED
SCHEDULE
G
TERMS
OF
INTER-COMPANY SUBORDINATED DEBT
SCHEDULE
H
EXISTING
L/Cs
SCHEDULE
I
FORM
OF
GUARANTEE
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THIS
CREDIT AGREEMENT is made on 29 June 0000
X
X X X X
X X:
XXXXXX
COMMUNICATIONS INC.
-
and
-
THE
LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY
TO
THIS AGREEMENT
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and
-
THE
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
in
its
capacity as Agent
RECITALS:
A. The
Borrower is direct or indirect shareholder of, among other corporations,
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc., Xxxxxx Cable Inc. and Xxxxxx Media Inc.
B. The
Borrower will amalgamate with Xxxxxx Wireless Inc., Xxxxxx Cable Inc. and
other
corporations on 1 July 2007 under the name Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.
C. The
Borrower has requested a senior unsecured credit of $2,400,000,000 for the
purposes specified in this Agreement, including refinancing the existing
bank
credit facilities of certain of the amalgamating corporations and Xxxxxx
Media
Inc.
D. The
Bank
of Nova Scotia and The Toronto-Dominion Bank have been appointed as Co-Lead
Arrangers and Co-Administration Agents in connection with the credit and
The
Toronto-Dominion Bank will perform certain administrative functions as
Agent.
E. The
Lenders have each agreed to provide their respective commitments, subject
to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement.
F. The
parties are entering into this Agreement to provide for the terms of the
credit.
THEREFORE,
for value received, and intending to be legally bound by this Agreement,
the
parties agree as follows:
ARTICLE
1
INTERPRETATION
1.1 Defined
Terms
In
this
Agreement (and in any other Loan Document, unless otherwise defined therein),
unless something in the subject matter or context is inconsistent
therewith:
1.1.1 "Advance"
means an availment of the Credit by the Borrower by way of Prime Rate Advance,
Base Rate Advance, Bankers' Acceptance, L/C or LIBOR Advance, including
overdrafts under the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche, deemed Advances and
conversions, renewals and rollovers of existing Advances, and any reference
relating to the amount of Advances shall mean the sum of all outstanding
Prime
Rate Advances, Base Rate Advances and LIBOR Advances, plus the face amount
of
all outstanding Bankers' Acceptances and L/Cs.
1.1.2 "Affiliate"
means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly,
or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled
by or
is under common Control with the Person specified.
1.1.3 "Agent"
means TD in its role as loan agent for the Lenders, and any successor loan
agent
appointed in accordance with this Agreement.
1.1.4 "Agreement"
means this Credit Agreement and any Schedules to this Credit Agreement, as
amended, supplemented, restated and replaced from time to time.
1.1.5 "Amalgamation"
means the planned amalgamation on 1 July 2007 of Xxxxxx Communications Inc.,
RWCI Acquisition Inc., Xxxxxx Wireless Communications Inc., Xxxxxx Cable
Inc.
and Xxxxxx Wireless Inc. under the name Xxxxxx Communications Inc.
1.1.6 "Applicable
Law" means (a) any domestic or foreign statute, law (including common
and civil law), treaty, code, ordinance, rule, regulation, restriction or
by-law
(zoning or otherwise); (b) any judgement, order, writ, injunction, decision,
ruling, decree or award; (c) any regulatory policy, practice, guideline or
directive; or (d) any franchise, licence, qualification, authorization, consent,
exemption, waiver, right, permit or other approval of any Governmental
Authority, binding on or affecting the Person referred to in the context
in
which the term is used or binding on or affecting the property of such Person,
which in each case has the force of law or is customarily complied with by
Persons who are subject to it.
1.1.7 "Applicable
Percentage" means with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the
total Commitments represented by such Lender’s Commitment. If the
Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall
be the
percentage of the total outstanding Advances represented by such Lender’s
outstanding Advances.
1.1.8 "Assignment
and Assumption" means an agreement in substantially the form of
Schedule C to this Agreement or any other form approved by the
Agent.
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1.1.9 "Attributable
Debt" means as of the date of its determination, the present value
(discounted semi-annually at the interest rate implicit in the terms of the
lease) of the obligation of a lessee for rental payments pursuant to any
Sale
and Leaseback Transaction (reduced by the amount of the rental obligations
of
any sublessee of all or part of the same property) during the remaining term
of
such Sale and Leaseback Transaction (including any period for which the lease
relating thereto has been extended), such rental payments not to include
amounts
payable by the lessee for maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments
and similar charges and for contingent rates (such as those based on sales),
except that, in the case of any Sale and Leaseback Transaction in which the
lease is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, Attributable
Debt shall mean the lesser of the present value of (i) the rental payments
to be
paid under such Sale and Leaseback Transaction until the first date (after
the
date of such determination) upon which it may be so terminated plus the then
applicable penalty upon such termination and (ii) the rental payments required
to be paid during the remaining term of such Sale and Leaseback Transaction
(assuming such termination provision is not exercised).
1.1.10 "BA
Discount Proceeds" means, in respect of any Bankers' Acceptance, an
amount calculated on the applicable Drawdown Date which is (rounded to the
nearest full cent, with one-half of one cent being rounded up) equal to the
face
amount of such Bankers' Acceptance multiplied by the price, where the price
is
calculated by dividing one by the sum of one plus the product of (i) the
BA
Discount Rate applicable thereto expressed as a decimal fraction multiplied
by
(ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the term of such Bankers' Acceptance
and the denominator of which is 365, which calculated price will be rounded
to
the nearest multiple of 0.001%.
1.1.11 "BA
Discount Rate":
(a)
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if
the sale of Bankers' Acceptances is arranged by the Borrower, means,
with
respect to any Bankers' Acceptance accepted by a Lender named on
Schedule
I to the Bank Act (Canada), the rate calculated on the basis of a
year of 365 days and determined in accordance with normal market
practice
at which the sale of the Bankers' Acceptance is arranged by the
Borrower
in accordance with Section 4.14,
and with respect to any Bankers' Acceptance accepted by any other
Lender,
the rate determined by the Agent as being the arithmetic average
(rounded
upward to the nearest multiple of 0.01%) of the discount rates,
calculated
on the basis of a year of 365 days and determined in accordance
with
normal market practice at or about 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on
the
applicable Drawdown Date, for bankers' acceptances of the Other
Reference
Lenders having a comparable face amount and identical maturity
date to the
face amount and maturity date of such Bankers'
Acceptance;
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(b)
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if
the sale of Bankers' Acceptances is not arranged by the Borrower,
means,
with respect to any Bankers' Acceptance accepted by a Lender named
on
Schedule I to the Bank Act (Canada), the average rate that
appears on the Reuters screen CDOR page at or about 10:00 a.m.
on the
applicable Drawdown Date, for bankers’ acceptances having an identical
maturity date to the maturity date of that Bankers' Acceptance
and, with
respect to any Bankers' Acceptances accepted by any other Lender,
the
foregoing rate based on the Reuters screen CDOR page, plus 0.10%
per
annum.
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1.1.12 "Bankers'
Acceptance" means a depository xxxx as defined in the Depository
Bills and Notes Act (Canada) in Canadian Dollars that is in the form of an
order signed by the Borrower and accepted by a Lender pursuant to this Agreement
or, for Lenders not participating in clearing services contemplated in that
Act,
a draft or xxxx of exchange in Canadian Dollars that is drawn by the Borrower
and accepted by a Lender pursuant to this Agreement. Orders that
become depository bills, drafts and bills of exchange are sometimes collectively
referred to in this Agreement as "orders."
1.1.13 "Bankers'
Acceptance Fee" means the amount calculated by multiplying the face
amount of each Bankers' Acceptance by the rate for calculation of the Bankers'
Acceptance Fee specified in Section 2.6,
and
then multiplying the result by a fraction, the numerator of which
is the
duration of its term on the basis of the actual number of days to elapse
from
and including the date of acceptance of a Bankers Acceptance by the Lender
up to
but excluding the maturity date of the Bankers' Acceptance and the denominator
of which is the number of days in the calendar year in question.
1.1.14 "Base
Rate" means, on any day, the greater of:
(a)
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the
annual rate of interest (expressed as a percentage per annum on
the basis
of a 365/366 day year) announced by the Agent on that day as its
reference
rate for commercial loans made in Canada in US Dollars;
and
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(b)
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the
Federal Funds Effective Rate plus 0.50% per
annum.
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1.1.15
"Base Rate Advance" means an Advance in US Dollars
bearing interest based on the Base Rate and includes deemed Base Rate Advances
provided for in Section 4.8.
1.1.16 "BNS"
means The Bank of Nova Scotia, a bank named on Schedule I of the Bank
Act (Canada).
1.1.17 "BNS
Tranche" is defined in Section 2.1.
1.1.18 "Borrower"
means, before the Amalgamation, Xxxxxx Communications Inc., a corporation
governed by the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia), and,
after the Amalgamation, means the amalgamated corporation and its permitted
successors and assigns.
1.1.19 "Branch
of Account" means the office of the Agent at Royal Trust Tower, 00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, X0X
0X0.
1.1.20 "Business
Day" means a day of the year, other than Saturday or Sunday, on which
the Agent is open for business at its executive offices in Toronto, Ontario
and
at its principal office in New York, New York and in respect of notices,
determinations, payments or Advances relating to LIBOR Advances, the Agent
is
open for business at its principal offices in London,
England. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if banks will be open in some
locations referred to above and closed in others on a particular day, and
the
Agent determines that the closing of those banks on that day will not adversely
affect completion of relevant transactions in accordance with customary banking
market and trading practices, the Agent may, on reasonable notice to the
Borrower and the Lenders, specify the particular day to be a Business
Day.
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1.1.21 "Canadian
Dollars", "Cdn. Dollars", "Cdn. $" and "$" mean lawful
money of Canada.
1.1.22 "Capital
Lease Obligations" means, with respect to any Person, an obligation
incurred or assumed in the ordinary course of business under or in connection
with any capital lease of real or personal property which, in accordance
with
GAAP, has been recorded as a capitalized lease.
1.1.23 "Capital
Stock" means, with respect to any person, all present and future
shares, partnership or other interests, participations or other equivalent
rights in the person's capital, however designated and whether voting or
non-voting.
1.1.24 "Cash
Collateral" means cash, a bank draft or a letter of credit issued by a
Canadian chartered bank, all in a form satisfactory to the Required Lenders,
acting reasonably.
1.1.25 "Change
in Control" is defined in Schedule E.
1.1.26 "Change
in Control Triggering Event" is deemed to occur upon both a Change in
Control and a Rating Decline.
1.1.27 "Change
in Law" means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any
of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any Applicable Law,
(b)
any change in any Applicable Law or in the administration, interpretation
or
application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance
of any Applicable Law by any Governmental Authority.
1.1.28 "CIBC"
means Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a bank named on Schedule I of the
Bank Act (Canada).
1.1.29 "Commitment"
means in respect of each Lender from time to time, the covenant to make Advances
to the Borrower in the Lender's Applicable Percentage of the maximum amount
of
the Credit and, where the context requires, the maximum amount of Advances
which
the Lender has covenanted to make.
1.1.30 "Compliance
Certificate" means a certificate in the form of Schedule
B.
1.1.31 "Consolidation"
means the consolidation of the accounts of the Restricted Subsidiaries with
those of the Borrower, if and to the extent the accounts of each such Restricted
Subsidiary would normally be consolidated with those of the Borrower, all
in
accordance with GAAP; provided however "Consolidation" will not include
consolidation of the accounts of any Unrestricted Subsidiary. The
term "Consolidated" shall have a correlative
meaning.
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1.1.32 "Consolidated
Interest Expense" means all interest expense paid or accrued for the
Borrower's Debt during the four consecutive most recently completed fiscal
quarters of the Borrower, calculated on a Consolidated basis.
1.1.33 "Constating
Documents" means, with respect to any person, its articles or
certificate of incorporation, amendment, amalgamation or continuance, memorandum
of association, by-laws, declaration of trust and other constating documents
(in
the case of a trust), partnership agreement, limited liability company agreement
or other similar document, and all unanimous shareholder agreements, voting
trust agreements and similar arrangements applicable to the person’s Capital
Stock, all as in effect from time to time.
1.1.34 "Contributing
Lender" shall have the meaning defined in Section 4.26.2.
1.1.35 "Control"
means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through
the
ability to exercise voting power, by contract or
otherwise. "Controlling" and
"Controlled" have corresponding meanings.
1.1.36 "Credit"
means the credit of up to $2,400,000,000 or the US Dollar equivalent thereof
in
favour of the Borrower which is established by this Agreement. Unless
the context requires otherwise, references to the Credit shall be interpreted
as
including the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche.
1.1.37 "Debt"
means, without duplication and without regard to any interest component thereof,
the aggregate of all indebtedness of a person, determined in accordance with
GAAP, excluding:
(a)
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Excluded
Securities, to the extent they would otherwise constitute
Debt;
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(b)
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Excluded
Assets, to the extent they would otherwise constitute Debt;
and
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(c)
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trade
payables and accrued liabilities which are current liabilities
incurred in
the ordinary course of business.
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For
greater certainty and without limitation of the
foregoing, Debt shall include:
(d)
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all
indebtedness for Purchase Money Obligations and Capital
Leases;
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(e)
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all
direct or indirect guarantees and indemnities which in any way
assure a
creditor against loss in respect of indebtedness of any other person
for
borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property and
related
services rendered (if any);
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(f)
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all
subordinated indebtedness;
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(g)
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in
the case of the Borrower, all indebtedness pursuant to borrowings
under
the Credit;
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(h)
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the
face amount of any Bankers' Acceptances or similar instruments
not
relating to the Credit; and
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(i)
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all
amounts owing as determined pursuant to accelerated swap
obligations.
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1.1.38 "Debt
to Operating Cash Flow Ratio" means the ratio of the Borrower's
aggregate Debt outstanding on a Consolidated basis to Operating Cash Flow,
both
calculated as at the end of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of
the
Borrower.
1.1.39 "Default"
means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that
would
constitute an Event of Default except for satisfaction of any condition
subsequent required to make the event or condition an Event of Default,
including giving of any notice, passage of time, or both.
1.1.40
"Defaulting Lender" is defined in Section 4.26.2.
1.1.41 "Designated
Account" means, in respect of any Advance, the account or accounts
maintained by the Borrower at a branch of the Agent in Toronto (or a branch
of
BNS in Toronto, in the case of an Advance under the BNS Tranche) that the
Borrower designates in its notice requesting an Advance.
1.1.42 "Drawdown
Date" means the date, which shall be a Business Day, of any
Advance.
1.1.43 "Event
of Default" is defined in Section 7.1.
1.1.44 "Exchange
Rate" means, on any day, with respect to the exchange of either of
Canadian Dollars or U.S. Dollars (the "First Currency") into the other of
those
currencies (the "Other Currency"), the noon spot rate of the Bank of Canada
on
that day or, if such rate is not or has not yet been quoted on such day,
such
rate on the last day on which it was quoted except that, if the Exchange
Rate is
required to determine the outstanding amount of Advances for a purpose that
involves the purchase of Canadian Dollars or U.S. Dollars (including Section
10.13),
the Exchange Rate shall be the spot buying rate quoted by the Agent for
purchases of the Other Currency with the First Currency at noon (Toronto
time)
on such day.
1.1.45 "Excluded
Assets" means (i) all assets of any Person other than the Borrower or a
Restricted Subsidiary; (ii) investments in the Capital Stock of an Unrestricted
Subsidiary held by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary; (iii) any investment
by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary to the extent paid for with cash
or
other property that constitutes Excluded Assets or Excluded Securities, so
long
as at the time of acquisition thereof and after giving effect thereto there
exists no Default; and (iv) proceeds of the sale of any Excluded Assets or
Excluded Securities received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary
from a
Person other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary.
1.1.46 "Excluded
Securities" means any indebtedness, preferred stock or common stock
issued by the Borrower, or any indebtedness or preferred stock issued by
any
Restricted Subsidiary, in either case to an Affiliate thereof other than
the
Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that, at all times, such Excluded
Securities shall:
(a)
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in
the case of indebtedness not owed to the Borrower or
a Restricted Subsidiary, constitute Inter-Company Subordinated
Debt;
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(b)
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in
the case of indebtedness, not be guaranteed by the Borrower or
any
Restricted Subsidiary;
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(c)
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in
the case of indebtedness, not be secured by any property of the
Borrower
or any Restricted Subsidiary;
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(d)
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provide
by their terms that interest or dividends thereon shall be payable
only to
the extent that, after giving effect to any such payment, no
Default has
occurred and is continuing; and
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(e)
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provide
by their terms that no payment (other than payments in the form
of
Excluded Securities) on account of principal (at maturity, by
operation of
sinking fund or mandatory redemption or otherwise) or other payment
on
account of redemption, repurchase, retirement or acquisition
of such
Excluded Security shall be permitted until the earlier of (x)
the Maturity
Date or (y) the date on which all Obligations have been indefeasibly
paid
in full and all Commitments have been
terminated.
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1.1.47 "Excluded
Taxes" means, with respect to the Agent, any Lender, an Issuing Bank
or
any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation
of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary hereunder, (a) taxes imposed
on or
measured by its net income, and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu
of net
income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof)
under
the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal
office
is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending
office
is located, (b) any branch profits taxes or any similar tax imposed by
any
jurisdiction in which the Lender is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign
Lender (other than (i) an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower
under
Section 10.10,
(ii) an assignee pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption made when an
Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing or (iii) any other assignee to the
extent
that the Borrower has expressly agreed that any withholding tax shall be
an
Indemnified Tax), any withholding tax that (A) is not imposed or assessed
in
respect of an Advance that was made on the premise that an exemption from
such
withholding tax would be available where the exemption is subsequently
determined, or alleged by a taxing authority, not to be available and (B)
is
required by Applicable Law to be withheld or paid in respect of any amount
payable hereunder or under any Loan Document to such Foreign Lender at
the time
such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new lending
office)
or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other than as
a result of a Change in Law) to comply with Section 10.8, except to the
extent
that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the
time of
designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional
amounts from the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary with respect to such
withholding tax pursuant to Section 10.8. For greater certainty, for
purposes of item (c) above, a withholding tax includes any Tax that a Foreign
Lender is required to pay pursuant to Part XIII of the Income Tax Act
(Canada) or any successor provision thereto.
1.1.48 "Exempted
Secured Debt" is defined in Section 1.1.90.
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1.1.49 "Federal
Funds Effective Rate" means for any period, a fluctuating interest rate
per annum equal, for each day during such period, to the weighted average
of the
rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by Federal Funds brokers as published for such
day (or,
if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day)
by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York or, for any day on which that rate is
not
published for that day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the average
of
the quotations for that day for such transactions received by the Agent
from
three Federal Funds brokers of recognized standing.
1.1.50 "Fee
Agreement" means the letter from BNS and TD in their capacity as
Co-Lead Arrangers to the Borrower dated 29 June 2007 and
accepted by the Borrower as of that date, which provides for fees payable
by the
Borrower to the Lenders in connection with the Credit.
1.1.51 "Foreign
Lender" means any Lender that is not organized under the laws of the
jurisdiction in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes and that
is not
otherwise considered or deemed in respect of any amount payable to it hereunder
or under any Loan Document to be resident for income tax or withholding
tax
purposes in the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is resident for tax
purposes
by application of the laws of that jurisdiction. For purposes of this
definition Canada and each Province and Territory thereof shall be deemed
to
constitute a single jurisdiction and the United States of America, each
State
thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single
jurisdiction.
1.1.52 "GAAP"
means generally accepted accounting principles that are in effect from
time to
time in Canada, as established by the Canadian Institute of Chartered
Accountants.
1.1.53 "Governmental
Authority" means the government of Canada or any other nation, or of
any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency,
authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other
entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government, including
a
Minister of the Crown, Superintendent of Financial Institutions or other
comparable authority or agency.
1.1.54 "Guarantors"
means, as of the date of this Agreement, Xxxxxx Wireless Partnership
and Xxxxxx Cable Communications Inc., both of which are Restricted
Subsidiaries.
1.1.55 "Indemnified
Taxes" means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
1.1.56 "Information"
is defined in Section 10.20.
1.1.57 "Inter-Company
Subordinated Debt" means all indebtedness of the Borrower or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries (except from one to the other) for money borrowed
from
Affiliates of the Borrower that are not Restricted
Subsidiaries and under which payments by the Borrower or
such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, with respect thereto are
subordinated to the Obligations in the manner and to the extent set forth
in
Schedule G and in respect of which the agreement or instrument evidencing
such
indebtedness contains or incorporates by reference the
provisions of Schedule G for the benefit of the Agent and the
Lenders.
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1.1.58 "Interest
Payment Date" means (in connection with Prime Rate Advances, Base Rate
Advances and L/C Fees) the first Business Day of each calendar
quarter.
1.1.59 "Issuing
Bank" means TD in the case of L/Cs issued under the TD Tranche, BNS
in
the case of L/Cs issued under the BNS Tranche, RBC in the case of L/Cs
referred
to in Part C of Schedule H, CIBC in the case of L/Cs referred to in Part
D of
Schedule H and the Agent in the case of all other L/Cs.
1.1.60 "L/C"
means a standby letter of credit, letter of guarantee or commercial letter
of
credit denominated in Canadian Dollars or US Dollars in a form satisfactory
to
the Issuing Bank, issued by the Issuing Bank at the request of the Borrower
in
favour of a third Person to secure the payment or performance of an obligation
of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary to the third Person.
1.1.61 "L/C
Fee" means, with respect to an L/C, the amount calculated by
multiplying (i) the face amount of that L/C by the rate for calculation
of the
L/C Fee specified in Section2.6 by (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which
is
the number of days for which the L/C Fee is to be paid as specified in
Section
4.31 and the denominator of which is the number of days in the calendar
year in
question.
1.1.62 "Lenders"
means each of the persons listed on Schedule D and other lenders that from
time
to time become Lenders in accordance with ARTICLE 9 of this Agreement,
and
"Lender" means any one of the Lenders.
1.1.63 "LIBO
Rate" means, for any LIBOR Period and LIBOR Advance,
either:
(a)
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the
rate expressed as a percentage per annum on the basis of a 360
day year
for deposits in US Dollars in the London interbank market for
a period
equal to the LIBOR Period and in an amount approximately equal
to the
amount of the LIBOR Advance, that appears on the Reuters LIBOR01
Page (or any successor source from time to time)
as
of 11:00 a.m. London time two Business Days before the first
day of the
LIBOR Period, or,
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(b)
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if
no such rate appears as contemplated in item (a) above, the interest
rate
expressed as a percentage per annum on the basis of a 360 day
year at
which deposits in US Dollars are offered to the principal office
of TD in
London, England in the London interbank market at 11:00 a.m.
London time
two Business Days before the first day of the LIBOR Period for
a period
equal to the LIBOR Period and in an amount approximately equal
to the
amount of the LIBOR Advance.
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1.1.64 "LIBOR
Advance" means an advance in US Dollars bearing interest based on the
LIBO Rate.
1.1.65 "LIBOR
Period" means the period selected by the Borrower for a LIBOR Advance
or the period applicable to the LIBOR Advance under the terms of this
Agreement.
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1.1.66 "Lien"
means any mortgage, charge, pledge, hypothec, lien, privilege,
security
interest, hypothecation and transfer, lease of real property or other
encumbrance upon or with respect to any property of any kind of the Borrower
or
any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, real or personal, movable or immovable,
now
owned or hereafter acquired.
1.1.67 "Loan
Documents" means this Agreement and all other documents relating to the
Credit that are entered into between the Borrower and/or one or more Guarantors
on the one hand and the Agent and/or the Lenders on the other hand.
1.1.68 "Maturity
Date" means 2 July 2013.
1.1.69 "Net
Tangible Assets" means the Tangible Assets of any Person, less such
Person's current liabilities.
1.1.70 "Obligations"
means all obligations of the Borrower to the Lenders under or in connection
with
this Agreement, including all indebtedness and liabilities, present or
future,
direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or not, at any time
owing by
the Borrower to the Lenders in any currency or remaining unpaid by the
Borrower
to the Lenders in any currency under or in connection with this Agreement,
whether arising from dealings between the Lenders and the Borrower or from
any
other dealings or proceedings by which the Lenders may be or become in
any
manner whatever creditors of the Borrower under or in connection with this
Agreement, and wherever incurred, and whether incurred by the Borrower
alone or
with another or others and whether as principal or surety, and all interest,
fees, legal and other costs, charges and expenses. In this definition,
"the Lenders" shall be interpreted as "the Lenders, or any of
them."
1.1.71 "Operating
Cash Flow" means an amount equal to the total net income of the
Borrower, on a Consolidated basis, for its four consecutive most recently
completed fiscal quarters, prepared in accordance with GAAP, excluding
all
extraordinary and other non-recurring and unusual items (including foreign
exchange losses or gains and losses or gains on the repurchase or redemption
of
any securities) and excluding all non-cash GAAP expenses or income related
to
stock-based compensation and fair value accounting related to indebtedness
and
derivative instruments, plus, to the extent deducted in calculating such
net
income, interest expense and other financing costs and expenses, depreciation,
amortization, and all Taxes, whether or not deferred, in each case applicable
to
those fiscal quarters. If the Borrower has made any investment or
disposition, on a Consolidated basis, during its four consecutive most
recently
completed fiscal quarters, Operating Cash Flow otherwise calculated for
those
fiscal quarters shall be adjusted to include Operating Cash Flow attributable
to
the investment as if the investment had been made on the first day of that
period and to exclude Operating Cash Flow attributable to the property
disposed
of as if the disposition had been made on the first day of that
period.
1.1.72 "Operating
Cash Flow to Consolidated Interest Expense Ratio" means the ratio of
Operating Cash Flow to Consolidated Interest Expense, both calculated as
at the
end of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Borrower.
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1.1.73 "Other
Reference Lenders" means the Lenders that are not banks referred to in
Schedule I of the Bank Act (Canada) and that have been designated as or
deemed to be Other Reference Lenders in accordance with Section
4.13.
1.1.74 "Other
Taxes" means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any
other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from
any
payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution,
delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement
or any
other Loan Document.
1.1.75 "Permits"
means franchises, licences, qualifications, authorizations, consents,
certificates, registrations, exemptions, waivers, filings, grants,
notifications, privileges, rights, orders, judgments, rulings, directives,
permits and other approvals, obtained from or required by a Governmental
Authority.
1.1.76 "Person"
or "person" means any natural person, corporation, limited
liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership,
Governmental Authority or other entity.
1.1.77 "Prime
Rate" means, on any day, the greater of:
(a)
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the
annual rate of interest expressed as a percentage per annum announced
by
TD on that day as its reference rate for commercial loans made
by it in
Canada in Canadian Dollars; and
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(b)
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the
average rate for 30 day Canadian Dollar bankers' acceptances
that appears
on the Reuters Screen CDOR Page at 10:00 a.m. Toronto time on
that day,
plus 0.75% per annum.
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1.1.78 "Prime
Rate Advance" means an Advance in Canadian Dollars bearing interest
based on the Prime Rate and includes deemed Prime Rate Advances provided
for in
this Agreement.
1.1.79 "Purchase
Money Obligations" means, with respect to any Person, obligations,
other than Capital Lease Obligations, incurred or assumed in the ordinary
course
of business in connection with the purchase of property to be used in the
business of such Person.
1.1.80 "Rating
Agencies" means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of
McGraw Hill, Inc., Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and Fitch IBCA or, in each
case, any successor to the rating agency business thereof, and each of
such
Rating Agencies is referred to individually as a "Rating Agency."
1.1.81 "Rating
Date" means the date that is 90 days before the earlier of (i) a Change
in Control and (ii) public notice of the occurrence of a Change in Control
or of
the intention of the Borrower to effect a Change in Control.
1.1.82 "Rating
Decline" means the occurrence of the following on, or within 90 days
after, the date of public notice of the occurrence of a Change in Control
or of
the intention by the Borrower to effect a Change in Control (which period
shall
be extended so long as the rating of RCI Public Debt is under publicly
announced
consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating
Agencies): (a) in the event the RCI Public Debt is assigned an
Investment Grade Rating by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on
the
Rating Date, the rating of the RCI Public Debt by at least two of the three
Rating Agencies shall be below an Investment Grade Rating; or (b) in the
event
the RCI Public Debt is rated below an Investment Grade Rating by at least
two of
the three Rating Agencies on the Rating Date, the rating of the RCI Public
Debt
by at least two of the three Rating Agencies shall be decreased by one
or more
gradations (including gradation within rating categories as well as between
rating categories). For the purpose of this Section 1.1.82,
"Investment Grade Rating" means a rating equal to or higher
than BBB- (or the equivalent) by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division
of McGraw Hill, Inc., Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Xxxxx’x Investors Service,
Inc. or BBB- (or the equivalent) by Fitch IBCA.
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1.1.83 "RBC"
means Royal Bank of Canada, a bank listed on Schedule I of the Bank Act
(Canada).
1.1.84 "RCI
Public Debt" means the publicly issued senior Debt of the Borrower on a
Consolidated basis that is outstanding from time to time and ranks equally
and
ratably with the Obligations.
1.1.85 "Register"
is defined in Section 9.3.
1.1.86 "Related
Parties" means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates
and the directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person
and
of such Person’s Affiliates.
1.1.87 "Required
Lenders" means Lenders holding, in the aggregate, a minimum of 50.01%
of the Commitments.
1.1.88 "Restricted
Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Borrower other than an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.
1.1.89 "Sale
and Leaseback Transaction" means any arrangement with any Person
providing for the leasing by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary
of any of
its property (whether such property is now owned or hereafter acquired)
that has
been or is to be sold or transferred by the Borrower or such Restricted
Subsidiary to such Person, other than (i) temporary leases for a term,
including
renewals at the option of the lessee, of not more than three years; (ii)
leases
between the Borrower and a Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted
Subsidiaries; and (iii) leases of property executed by the time of, or
within
180 days after the latest of, the acquisition, the completion of construction
or
improvement, or the commencement of commercial operation of such
property.
1.1.90 "Secured
Debt" means:
(a)
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Debt
or trade payables of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary
secured by
any Lien upon any of its respective property, or the Capital
Stock or Debt
of a Restricted Subsidiary; or
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(b)
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any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement covering
any
property or Restricted
Subsidiary;
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(1)
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incurred
or entered into on or after the date of this Agreement to finance
the
acquisition, improvement or construction of such property and
either secured by Purchase Money Obligations or
Liens placed on such property within 180 days of acquisition,
improvement
or construction and securing Debt or trade payables not to exceed
$50,000,000 at any time
outstanding;
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(2)
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on
property or the Capital Stock or Debt of Restricted
Subsidiaries and existing at the time of acquisition of the property,
Capital Stock or Debt;
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(3)
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owing
to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary;
and
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(4)
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existing
at the time a corporation or other entity becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary;
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each
of
(1) through (4) above being referred to as "Exempted Secured
Debt."
1.1.91 "Subsidiary"
means, with respect to any person, a subsidiary as defined in the Canada
Business Corporations Act as of the date of this Agreement, and any
partnership or other organization in which the person or any Subsidiary
of the
person has the right to make or control management decisions.
1.1.92 "Successor
Agent" is defined in Section 8.11.
1.1.93 "Tangible
Assets" means at any date, the gross book value as shown by the
accounting books and records of any Person of all its property both real
and
personal, less (i) the net book value of all its licenses, patents, patent
applications, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, goodwill, non-compete
agreements or organizational expenses and other like intangibles, (ii)
unamortized Debt discount and expenses, (iii) all reserves for depreciation,
obsolescence, depletion and amortization of its properties, and (iv) all
other
proper reserves which in accordance with GAAP should be provided in connection
with the business conducted by such Person.
1.1.94 "Taxes"
means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions,
withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental
Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable
thereto, and "Tax" has a corresponding meaning.
1.1.95 "TD"
means The Toronto-Dominion Bank, a bank named on Schedule I of the Bank
Act (Canada).
1.1.96 "TD
Tranche" is defined in Section 2.1.
1.1.97 "Unrestricted
Subsidiary" means (i) any Subsidiary of the Borrower that at the time
of determination is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance
with
Section 6.4 and (ii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
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1.1.98 "US
Dollars" and "US $" mean lawful money of the United
States of America.
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Construction
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This
Agreement has been negotiated by each party with the benefit of legal
representation, and any rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities
are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not apply to the
construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
1.3
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Certain
Rules of Interpretation
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In
this
Agreement:
(a)
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the
division into articles and sections and the insertion of headings
and the
Table of Contents are for convenience of reference only and shall
not
affect the construction or interpretation of this
Agreement;
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(b)
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unless
specified otherwise or the context otherwise
requires:
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(i)
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"the
aggregate of", "the total of", "the sum
of", or a phrase of similar meaning means "the aggregate
(or
total or sum), without duplication, of";
and
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(ii)
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all
references to specific times are references to Toronto
time.
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1.4
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Terms
Generally
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The
definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural
forms
of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter
forms. The words "include",
"includes" and "including" shall be deemed
to
be followed by the phrase "without limitation". The word
"will" shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect
as the word "shall". Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any
definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document
herein
(including this Agreement) shall be construed as referring to such agreement,
instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented,
restated or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments,
supplements, restatements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference
herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and
permitted assigns, (c) the words "herein",
"hereof" and "hereunder", and words of similar
import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and
not to
any particular provision hereof, (d) all references to Articles, Sections,
Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections
of,
and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, (e) any reference to any
law or
regulation herein shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law
or
regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time and (f)
the
words "asset" and "property" shall be
construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all
tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities,
accounts and contract rights.
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1.5
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Performance
on Business Days
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If
any
action is required to be taken pursuant to this Agreement on or by a specified
date that is not a Business Day, the action is valid if taken on or by
the next
Business Day, except that in the case of a payment, if the next Business
Day is
in a different calendar month then the payment shall be made on the preceding
Business Day.
1.6
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Accounting
Terms
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In
this
Agreement, unless specified otherwise, each accounting term has the meaning
assigned to it under GAAP.
ARTICLE
2
THE
CREDIT
2.1
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Amount
and Availment Options
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Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Lenders shall provide,
severally (not jointly and not jointly and severally), a credit for the
use of
the Borrower in the aggregate amount of up to $2,400,000,000 or the equivalent
thereof in US Dollars. Each Lender's obligation shall be limited to
its respective Applicable Percentage of the Credit.
TD's
Commitment includes a tranche, which is referred to as the "TD Tranche,"
of up
to $75,000,000 or such lesser amount as the Borrower may from time to time
designate in writing to the Agent and TD. BNS's Commitment includes a
tranche, which is referred to as the "BNS Tranche," of up to $25,000,000
or such
lesser amount as the Borrower may from time to time designate in writing
to the
Agent and BNS. Except as otherwise specified in this Agreement, all
terms of the Credit shall apply to the TD Tranche and the BNS
Tranche. Outstanding Advances under the TD Tranche and the BNS
Tranche shall reduce the amount of Advances otherwise available from TD
and BNS,
respectively, under the Credit. The maximum amount available under
the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche shall be reduced whenever necessary,
and the
Borrower shall repay Advances under the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche
whenever
necessary, to ensure that the aggregate of Advances from TD and BNS under
the
Credit (including the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche, respectively) do
not
exceed their respective Commitments (disregarding the TD Tranche and the
BNS
Tranche, respectively).
At
the
option of the Borrower, the Credit (including the TD Tranche and the BNS
Tranche) may be used by requesting that Prime Rate Advances, Base Rate
Advances
or LIBOR Advances be made, by presenting orders for acceptance as Bankers'
Acceptances or by requesting that L/Cs be issued by the applicable Issuing
Bank. In addition, at the option of the Borrower, the TD Tranche and
the BNS Tranche may be used by the Borrower incurring overdrafts in its
Canadian
Dollar and US Dollar accounts with TD and BNS, respectively, which shall
be
deemed to be Prime Rate Advances (in the case of Canadian Dollar accounts)
and
Base Rate Advances (in the case of US Dollar accounts). The face
amount of L/Cs outstanding at any time, other than under the TD Tranche
and the
BNS Tranche, shall not exceed $100,000,000 or the equivalent amount in
US
Dollars.
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2.2
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Existing
L/Cs and Overdrafts
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The
letters of credit issued by BNS that are outstanding as of the date of
this
Agreement and listed in Part A of Schedule H shall, upon the initial Advance
under this Agreement, be deemed to be L/Cs issued under the BNS
Tranche. The letters of credit issued by TD that are outstanding as
of the date of this Agreement and listed in Part B of Schedule H shall,
upon the
initial Advance under this Agreement, be deemed to be L/Cs issued under
the TD
Tranche. The letters of credit issued by RBC and CIBC that are
outstanding as of the date of this Agreement and listed in Part C and Part
D,
respectively, of Schedule H shall, upon the initial Advance under this
Agreement, be deemed to be L/Cs issued under the Credit.
In
addition, the following amounts outstanding as of the date of this Agreement
by
way of overdrafts under existing credit facilities in favour of the Borrower
or
certain of its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be Advances under this
Agreement:
(a)
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amounts
owing by Xxxxxx Wireless Inc. under the letter loan agreement
dated 31
October 1991 with BNS, as amended, shall be deemed to be Prime
Rate
Advances or Base Rate Advances, as applicable, to the Borrower
under the
BNS Tranche;
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(b)
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amounts
owing by Xxxxxx Cable Inc. under the "Operating Credit" established
in the
second amended and restated loan agreement dated as of 31 January
2002, as
further amended, shall be deemed to be Prime Rate Advances or
Base Rate
Advances, as applicable, to the Borrower under the TD
Tranche;
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(c)
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amounts
owing by the Borrower to TD under the amended and restated letter
loan
agreement dated as of 31 August 1998 between the Borrower, BNS
and TD, as
further amended, shall be deemed to be Prime Rate Advances or
Base Rate
Advances, as applicable, to the Borrower under the TD
Tranche.
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2.3
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Reborrowing
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The
Credit is a revolving credit. The principal amount of any Advance
under the Credit that is repaid may be reborrowed if the Borrower is otherwise
entitled to an Advance under the Credit.
2.4
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Use
of the Credit
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The
Credit shall be used by the Borrower for its general corporate purposes,
including repayment of existing bank credit facilities of the Borrower
and
certain Restricted Subsidiaries and commercial paper back up.
2.5
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Term
and Repayment
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The
Credit shall be repaid in full and cancelled on the Maturity Date.
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2.6
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Interest
Rates and Fees
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[Redacted]
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[Redacted]
2.7
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Guarantees
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The
Borrower shall cause the Guarantors to guarantee the Obligations by delivering
guarantees in favour of the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, in the
form
attached as Schedule I, which among other things provides that the guarantees
may be terminated in specified circumstances.
2.8
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Exchange
Rate Fluctuations
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If
fluctuations in rates of exchange in effect between US Dollars and Canadian
Dollars cause the amount of Advances (expressed in Canadian Dollars based
on the
Exchange Rate in effect from time to time) under the Credit to exceed the
maximum amount of the Credit permitted herein by five percent or more at
any
time, the Borrower shall pay the Lenders within three Business Days after
demand
such amount as is necessary to repay the excess. If the Borrower is
unable to do so because LIBOR Periods have not ended, Bankers' Acceptances
have
not matured or L/Cs are outstanding, the Borrower shall, within three Business
Days after demand, post Cash Collateral in the amount of the excess, which
shall
be held by the Agent until the amount of the excess is paid in full or
is less
than five percent. If, on the date of any Advance under the Credit
(whether by rollover, conversion or otherwise), the amount of Advances
(expressed as described above) under the Credit exceeds the maximum amount
of
the Credit permitted herein because of fluctuations in rates of exchange,
the
Borrower shall immediately pay the Lenders the excess and shall not be
entitled
to any Advance that would result in the amount of the Credit being
exceeded.
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ARTICLE
3
DISBURSEMENT
CONDITIONS
3.1
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Conditions
Precedent to Initial
Advance
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The
following conditions precedent must be satisfied at or before the time
of the
first Advance under this Agreement, unless waived in accordance with Section
8.7.2. Where delivery of documents is referred to, the documents
shall be delivered to the Agent, for and on behalf of the Lenders, and
shall be
in full force and effect and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Lenders.
3.1.1 Corporate
Information - The Agent shall have received a certificate of each of
the Borrower and the Guarantors, in each case with copies of its Constating
Documents, a list of officers and directors who are signing Loan Documents
on
its behalf, with specimens of their signatures, and copies of the corporate
proceedings taken to authorize it to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations under the Loan Documents.
3.1.2 Documents
- The Agent shall have received:
(a)
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duly
executed copies of this Agreement and the guarantees referred
to in
Section 2.7;
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(b)
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the
Fee Agreement, and payment of all fees required to be paid under
the Fee
Agreement or to the Agent at or before the time of the first
Advance.
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3.1.3 Liens
and Credit Facilities - The Agent shall have received evidence that all
existing bank credit facilities of the Borrower, Xxxxxx Cable Inc., Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc. and Xxxxxx Media Inc. will be repaid in full and cancelled
concurrently with the first Advance (except that obligations relating to
letters
of credit will be subject to Section 2.2). The Agent shall also have
received evidence of the delivery of releases, discharges and postponements
(in
registrable form where appropriate) covering all Liens affecting the property
of
the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries that are not permitted by
this
Agreement, and received all statements, acknowledgments or other evidence
that
is reasonably required in respect of other Liens affecting the property
of the
Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries to confirm that the Liens are
permitted.
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3.1.4 Financial
Information - The Agent shall have received:
(a)
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the
Borrower's consolidated financial statements for its
fiscal quarter ended 31 March 2007 (which are identical to its
Consolidated financial statements for that fiscal quarter), which
are
acknowledged to have been adequately delivered by having been
posted by
the Borrower on the xxx.xxxxx.xxx
website;
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(b)
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a
Compliance Certificate for the fiscal period ended 31 March
2007.
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3.1.5 Opinions
- The Agent shall have received:
(a)
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the
opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Gervais LLP, counsel to the Lenders,
addressed to
the Agent and the Lenders;
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(b)
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the
opinions of Torys LLP, counsel to the Borrower, and any applicable
local
counsel (including Fasken Xxxxxxxxx XxXxxxxx LLP), addressed
to the Agent,
the Lenders and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Gervais LLP; Torys LLP or
applicable local counsel shall, among other things, opine (subject
to
customary limitations) that the Amalgamation and the entry into
and
performance of the Borrower's obligations under or in connection
with the
Loan Documents will not contravene, conflict with, or result
in the breach
of any Applicable Law or with the terms and conditions of agreements
relating to RCI Public Debt.
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3.1.6 Other
Matters - The initial Advance shall occur on 29 June 2007 and will be
used in whole or in part to repay the existing bank credit facilities as
described in Section 3.1.3.
3.2
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Conditions
Precedent to all Advances
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The
obligation of the Lenders to make any Advance is subject to the conditions
precedent that:
(a)
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no
Default has occurred and is continuing on the Drawdown Date,
or would
result from making the Advance;
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(b)
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the
Agent has received timely notice as required under Section
4.5;
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(c)
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all
other terms and conditions of this Agreement upon which an Advance
may be
obtained are fulfilled.
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ARTICLE
4
ADVANCES
4.1
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Lenders'
Obligations Relating to L/Cs and TD and BNS
Tranches
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Notwithstanding
that Advances under the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche are for the time
being
made by TD and BNS, respectively, it is the intention of the parties that
the
ultimate credit risk and exposure of any Lender in respect of the Credit
(including any Advances under the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche) be in
accordance with its Applicable Percentage. Accordingly, on the
Obligations becoming due and payable under Section 7.2, each Lender shall
do all
such things, including purchasing participations in Advances made by TD
and BNS
under the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche, as shall be required to ensure
that
result. Any such action on the part of the Lenders shall be binding
on the Borrower.
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In
addition, each Lender shall immediately indemnify the Issuing Bank for
that
Lender’s Applicable Percentage of any payment made by the Issuing Bank in
respect of an L/C (other than those issued under the TD Tranche or the
BNS
Tranche, which are subject to the preceding paragraph) for which the Issuing
Bank is not immediately reimbursed by the Borrower, and shall do all such
things, including purchase of participations in Advances made by the Issuing
Bank, as shall be required to ensure that result. Any such action on
the part of the Lenders shall be binding on the Borrower.
Each
Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligations under this Section
4.1 are
absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall not be affected by any
circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension
of any
L/C, the occurrence and continuance of a Default or the reduction or termination
of its Commitment, and that any payment it is required to make pursuant
to its
obligations shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or
reduction whatsoever.
If
any
Lender fails to take the actions required under this Section 4.1, the Agent
may,
without prejudice to the other rights of the Lenders, make such adjustments
to
the payments to the defaulting Lender under this Agreement as are necessary
to
compensate the other Lenders for the defaulting Lender's failure.
4.2
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Exceptions
Relating to TD and BNS
Tranches
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Subject
to the provisions of Section 4.1 regarding steps to be taken in the event
of
acceleration of payment of the Obligations, any provisions of this Agreement
that contemplate the participation in Advances and payments under the TD
Tranche
and the BNS Tranche by any Lender other than TD and BNS, respectively,
do not
apply to the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche. All Advances under the
TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche shall be made solely by TD and BNS, respectively,
and records concerning Advances under the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche
shall
be maintained solely by TD and BNS, respectively. All payments of
principal, interest, fees and other amounts relating to the TD Tranche
and the
BNS Tranche shall be made solely to TD and BNS, respectively, at such place
as
they may designate from time to time. Any notices by the Borrower in
connection with the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche shall be made to TD
and BNS,
respectively. Notice and minimum amount requirements for Advances
shall not apply to Advances by way of overdraft under the TD Tranche and
the BNS
Tranche.
In
connection with Advances by way of overdraft under the TD Tranche and the
BNS
Tranche, TD and BNS, respectively, shall, at the close of business daily,
ascertain the position or net position of the account or accounts agreed
on by
the Borrower and TD and BNS, respectively. If the position or net
position is a debit in favour of the applicable Lender, the debit shall
(if the
Borrower is entitled to an Advance) be deemed to be a Prime Rate Advance
(in the
case of Canadian Dollars) or a Base Rate Advance (in the case of US Dollars)
under the TD Tranche or the BNS Tranche, as applicable, in the amount of
the
debit. If a position or net position is a credit in favour of the
Borrower, the credit shall be deemed to be a repayment of Prime Rate Advances
(in the case of Canadian Dollars) or Base Rate Advances (in the case of
US
Dollars) under the TD Tranche or the BNS Tranche, as applicable, in the
amount
of the credit.
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4.3
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Evidence
of Obligations
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The
Obligations resulting from Prime Rate Advances, Base Rate Advances, and
LIBOR
Advances made by the Lenders shall be evidenced by records maintained by
the
Agent, and by each Lender concerning those Advances it has made (including,
in
the case of an Issuing Bank, the L/Cs that it has issued and, in the case
of TD
and BNS, Advances under the TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche,
respectively). The Agent shall also maintain records of the
Obligations resulting from Advances by way of Bankers' Acceptances, and
each
Lender shall also maintain records relating to Bankers' Acceptances that
it has
accepted. The records maintained by the Agent (and by an Issuing Bank
in respect of L/Cs it has issued and by TD and BNS concerning Advances
under the
TD Tranche and the BNS Tranche, respectively) shall constitute, in the
absence
of manifest error, prima facie evidence of the Obligations and all
details relating thereto. The failure of the Agent or any Lender to
correctly record any such amount or date shall not, however, adversely
affect
the obligation of the Borrower to pay the Obligations in accordance with
this
Agreement.
4.4
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Conversions
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Subject
to the other terms of this Agreement, the Borrower may from time to time
convert
all or any part of the outstanding amount of any Advance into another form
of
Advance permitted by this Agreement.
4.5
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Notice
of Advances and Payments
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The
Borrower shall give the Agent irrevocable written notice, in the form attached
as Schedule A, of any request for any Advance to it under the Credit, except
as
provided in Sections 4.2 and 4.30. The Borrower shall also give the
Agent irrevocable written notice in the same form of any payment by it
(whether
resulting from repayment, prepayment, rollover or conversion) of any Advance
under the Credit.
Notice
in
respect of a LIBOR Advance or payment thereof shall be given on the third
Business Day before the date of Advance or payment. Notice in respect
of an Advance by way of Bankers' Acceptance or payment thereof shall be
given on
the second Business Day before the date of Advance or payment. Notice
in respect of a Prime Rate Advance, Base Rate Advance or payment thereof
shall
be given on the Business Day before any such Advance or
payment. Notice shall be given in respect of an Advance by way of L/C
in accordance with Section 4.30. Any permanent reduction
of the Credit shall only be effective on three Business Days' notice as
required
by Section 4.6.
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Notices
shall be given not later than 1:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the date for
notice. Payments (other than those being made solely from the
proceeds of rollovers and conversions) must be made before 1:00 p.m. (Toronto
time) on the date for payment. If a notice or payment is not given or
made by those times, it shall be deemed to have been given or made on the
next
Business Day, unless all Lenders affected by the late notice or payment
agree,
in their sole discretion, to accept a notice or payment at a later time
as being
effective on the date it is given or made.
4.6
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Prepayments
and Reductions
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Subject
to giving notice required by Section 4.5, the Borrower may from time to
time
repay Advances outstanding under the Credit without penalty, except that
LIBOR
Advances may not be paid before the end of the applicable LIBOR Periods
unless
the Borrower indemnifies the Lenders for any breakage costs that the Lenders
incur as a result, and Bankers' Acceptances may not be paid before their
respective maturity dates.
The
Borrower may from time to time, by giving not less than three Business
Days'
express written notice to the Agent and paying all accrued and unpaid standby
fees to the effective date of cancellation or reduction, irrevocably notify
the
Agent of the cancellation of the Credit or of the permanent reduction of
the
committed amount of the Credit by an amount which shall be a minimum of
$1,000,000 and a whole multiple of $100,000. The Borrower shall have
no right to any increase in the committed amount of the Credit
thereafter.
4.7
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Prime
Rate, Base Rate and LIBOR
Advances
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Upon
timely fulfilment of all applicable conditions as set forth in this Agreement,
the Agent, in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 4.10,
will
make the requested amount of a Prime Rate Advance, Base Rate Advance or
LIBOR
Advance available to the Borrower on the Drawdown Date requested by the
Borrower
by crediting the Designated Account with such amount. Each Prime Rate
Advance or Base Rate Advance shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of
$500,000
or US $500,000, respectively and in a whole multiple of $100,000 or US
$100,000,
respectively. Each LIBOR Advance shall be in minimum amount of US
$5,000,000 and a whole multiple of US $1,000,000. The Borrower shall
pay interest to the Agent for the account of the Lenders at the Branch
of
Account on any such Advances outstanding to it from time to time hereunder
at
the applicable rate of interest specified in Section 2.6.
Interest
on Prime Rate Advances and Base Rate Advances shall be payable quarterly
on each
Interest Payment Date. Interest on LIBOR Advances shall be payable on
the last day of the applicable LIBOR Period and, if the LIBOR Period is
longer
than three months, every three months after the date of the relevant LIBOR
Advance. All interest shall accrue from day to day and shall be
payable in arrears for the actual number of days elapsed from and including
the
date of Advance or the previous date on which interest was payable, as
the case
may be, to but excluding the date on which interest is payable, both before
and
after maturity, default and judgment, with interest on overdue interest
at the
same rate payable on demand. Overdue interest with respect to a LIBOR
Advance shall, upon the expiry of the LIBOR Period applicable to such LIBOR
Advance, bear interest, payable on demand, calculated at the rates applicable
to
Base Rate Advances.
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Interest
calculated with reference to the Prime Rate shall be calculated quarterly
on the
basis of a calendar year. Interest calculated with reference to the
Base Rate shall be calculated quarterly on the basis of a year of 365/366
days. Interest calculated with reference to the LIBO Rate shall be
calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days for a term equal to the applicable
LIBOR Period or, if a LIBOR Period is longer than three months, every three
months. Each rate of interest which is calculated with reference to a
period (the "deemed interest period") that is less than the actual number
of
days in the calendar year of calculation is, for the purposes of the
Interest Act (Canada), equivalent to a rate based on a calendar year
calculated by multiplying such rate of interest by the actual number of
days in
the calendar year of calculation and dividing by the number of days in
the
deemed interest period.
4.8
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LIBOR
Periods
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The
Borrower may select, by irrevocable notice to the Agent, LIBOR Periods
of one to
six months to apply to any particular LIBOR Advance. LIBOR Periods of
other lengths shall also be available at the discretion of the Lenders
from time
to time. No LIBOR Period may end on a date which is not a Business
Day, or after the Maturity Date. The Borrower shall from time to time
select and give notice to the Agent of the LIBOR Period for a LIBOR Advance
which shall commence upon the making of the LIBOR Advance or at the expiry
of
any outstanding LIBOR Period applicable to a LIBOR Advance that is being
rolled
over. If the Borrower fails to select and give the Agent notice of a
LIBOR Period for a LIBOR Advance in accordance with Section 4.5, the Lenders
shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Advance to the Borrower to replace
the
maturing LIBO Rate Advance.
The
Borrower shall not at any time have LIBOR Advances outstanding with a number
of
different maturity dates that is greater than 30 minus the number of different
maturity dates for the Borrower's Bankers' Acceptances that are then
outstanding.
4.9
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Termination
of LIBOR Advances
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If
at any
time a Lender determines in good faith and on reasonable grounds (which
determination shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower)
that:
(a)
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adequate
and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate
applicable to a LIBOR Advance;
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(b)
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the
LIBO Rate does not adequately reflect the effective cost to the
Lender of
making or maintaining a LIBOR Advance, except as a result of
the Lender
failing to obtain a deposit in the amount and for the term of
the LIBOR
Advance; or
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(c)
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it
cannot readily obtain or retain funds in the London interbank
market in
order to fund or maintain any LIBOR Advance or cannot otherwise
perform
its obligations hereunder with respect to any LIBOR
Advance,
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then
upon
at least four Business Days' written notice by the Agent to the
Borrower,
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(d)
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the
right of the Borrower to request LIBOR Advances from that Lender
shall be
and remain suspended until the Agent notifies the Borrower that
any
condition causing such determination no longer exists,
and
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(e)
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if
the Lender is prevented from maintaining a LIBOR Advance, the
Borrower
shall, at its option, either repay the LIBOR Advances owing by
it to that
Lender or convert the LIBOR Advances into other forms of Advance
which are
permitted by this Agreement, and the Borrower shall not be responsible
for
any loss or expense that the Lender incurs as a result, including
breakage
costs, notwithstanding that such repayment or conversion does
not occur on
the last day of a LIBOR Period.
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4.10
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Co-ordination
of Prime Rate, Base Rate and LIBOR
Advances
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Each
Lender shall advance its Applicable Percentage of each Prime Rate, Base
Rate and
LIBOR Advance in accordance with the following provisions:
(a)
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the
Agent shall advise each Lender of its receipt of a notice from
the
Borrower pursuant to Section 4.5 on the day such notice is received
and
shall, as soon as possible, advise each Lender of such Lender's
Applicable
Percentage of any Advance requested by the
notice;
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(b)
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each
Lender shall deliver its Applicable Percentage of the Advance
to the Agent
not later than 11:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on the Drawdown
Date;
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(c)
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if
the Agent determines that all the conditions precedent to an
Advance
specified in this Agreement have been met, it shall advance to
the
Borrower the amount delivered by each Lender by crediting the
Designated
Account before 2:30 p.m. (Toronto time) on the Drawdown Date,
but if the
conditions precedent to the Advance are not met by 2:30 p.m.
(Toronto
time) on the Drawdown Date, the Agent shall return the funds
to the
Lenders or invest them in an overnight investment as orally instructed
by
each Lender until such time as the Advance is made;
and
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(d)
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if
the Agent determines that a Lender's Applicable Percentage of
an Advance
would not be a whole multiple of $100,000 or US $100,000, as
the case may
be, the amount to be advanced by that Lender may be increased
or reduced
by the Agent in its sole discretion to the extent necessary to
reflect the
requirements of this sub-paragraph.
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4.11
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Inability
to Determine Rates Etc.
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If
the
Required Lenders reasonably determine that for any reason a market for
Bankers'
Acceptances does not exist at any time or the Lenders cannot for other
reasons,
after reasonable efforts, readily sell Bankers' Acceptances or perform
their
other obligations under this Agreement with respect to Bankers' Acceptances,
the
Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each
Lender. Thereafter, the Borrower's right to request the acceptance of
Bankers' Acceptances shall be and remain suspended until the Required Lenders
determine and the Agent notifies the Borrower and each Lender that the
condition
causing such determination no longer exists. If the Required Lenders
reasonably determine that for any reason adequate and reasonable means
do not
exist for determining the LIBO Rate for any requested LIBOR Period with
respect
to a proposed LIBOR Advance, or that the LIBO Rate for any requested LIBOR
Period with respect to a proposed LIBOR Advance does not adequately and
fairly
reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Advance, the Agent will
promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, the
obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain LIBOR Advances shall be suspended
until the Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes
such
notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any
pending request for a borrowing, conversion or continuation of LIBOR Advances
or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a
request
for a borrowing of Base Rate Advances in the amount specified
therein.
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4.12
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Execution
of Bankers' Acceptances
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To
facilitate the acceptance of Bankers' Acceptances hereunder, the Borrower
hereby
appoints each Lender as its attorney to sign and endorse on its behalf,
as and
when considered necessary by the Lender, an appropriate number of orders
in the
form prescribed by that Lender.
Each
Lender may, at its option, execute any order in handwriting or by the facsimile
or mechanical signature of any of its authorized officers, and the Lenders
are
hereby authorized to accept or pay, as the case may be, any order of the
Borrower which purports to bear such a signature notwithstanding that any
such
individual has ceased to be an authorized officer of the Lender. Any such
order
or Bankers' Acceptance shall be as valid as if he or she were an authorized
officer at the date of issue of the order or Bankers' Acceptance.
Any
order
or Bankers' Acceptance signed by a Lender as attorney for the Borrower,
whether
signed in handwriting or by the facsimile or mechanical signature of an
authorized officer of a Lender may be dealt with by the Agent or any Lender
to
all intents and purposes and shall bind the Borrower as if duly signed
and
issued by the Borrower.
The
receipt by the Agent of a request for an Advance by way of Bankers' Acceptances
shall be each Lender's sufficient authority to execute, and each Lender
shall,
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, execute orders in
accordance with such request and the advice of the Agent given pursuant
to
Section 4.16, and the orders so executed shall thereupon be deemed to have
been
presented for acceptance.
4.13
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Other
Reference Lenders
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If
more
than one Lender is not a bank named on Schedule I to the Bank Act
(Canada) but accepts bankers' acceptances, the Borrower and the Agent shall
each
designate a different such Lender to be an Other Reference Lender for the
purposes of this Agreement.
If
the
Commitment of any Other Reference Lender terminates (otherwise than on
termination of the entire Commitment hereunder) or is fully assigned or
participated pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement or it ceases
to accept
Bankers' Acceptances in accordance with customary market practice, that
Lender
shall thereupon cease to be an Other Reference Lender. In that event
the Agent (if such Other Reference Lender was originally designated by
the
Agent) or the Borrower, by notice to the Agent (if such Other Reference
Lender
was originally designated by the Borrower), shall designate another Lender
that
is not a bank named on Schedule I to the Bank Act (Canada) but
accepts bankers' acceptances as an Other Reference Lender.
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If
only
one Lender is qualified to be an Other Reference Lender, that Lender shall
be
deemed to be the Other Reference Lender and the BA Discount Rate for Lenders
not
named on Schedule I to the Bank Act (Canada) shall be determined on the
basis of the discount rate provided by the one qualified Lender. If
no Lender is qualified to be an Other Reference Lender, the BA Discount
Rate for
Lenders not named on Schedule I to the Bank Act (Canada) shall be
determined on the basis of the arithmetic average (rounded upwards to the
nearest multiple of 1/100 of 1%) of the discount rates applicable to Bankers'
Acceptances accepted by the Agent on the applicable Drawdown Date.
4.14
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Sale
of Bankers' Acceptances
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In
each
notice requesting an Advance by way of Bankers' Acceptances, the Borrower
shall
irrevocably designate whether (a) it shall be the responsibility of the
Borrower
to arrange, in accordance with normal market practice, for the sale on
each
Drawdown Date of the Bankers' Acceptances issued by the Borrower or (b)
it shall
be the responsibility of each Lender to arrange, in accordance with normal
market practice, for the sale on each Drawdown Date of the Bankers' Acceptances
to be accepted by that Lender, failing which the Lender shall purchase
its
Bankers' Acceptances.
If
the
Borrower designates that it shall be the responsibility of the Borrower
to
arrange for the sale of the Bankers' Acceptances, the Borrower shall advise
the
Agent (which shall promptly give the relevant particulars to each Lender)
as
soon as possible and in any event not later than 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time)
on
the Drawdown Date of the terms and maturity dates (which shall be identical
for
all Lenders) and the purchaser and price payable for each such Bankers'
Acceptance.
In
accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 4.16, the Agent will
make
the net proceeds of the requested Advance by way of Bankers' Acceptances
received by it from the Lenders available to the Borrower on the Drawdown
Date
by crediting the Designated Account with such amount.
4.15
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Size
and Maturity of Bankers' Acceptances and
Rollovers
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Each
Advance of Bankers' Acceptances shall be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000
and
in a whole multiple of $500,000, and each Bankers' Acceptance shall be
in the
amount of $1000 or whole multiples thereof. Each Bankers' Acceptance
shall have a term of one to six months after the date of acceptance of
the order
by a Lender, but no Bankers' Acceptance may mature on a date which is not
a
Business Day or on a date which is later than the Maturity Date. The
face amount at maturity of a Bankers' Acceptance may be renewed as a Bankers'
Acceptance or converted into another form of Advance permitted by this
Agreement.
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The
Borrower shall not at any time have Bankers' Acceptances outstanding with
a
number of different maturity dates that is greater than 30 minus the number
of
different maturity dates for the Borrower's LIBOR Advances that are then
outstanding.
4.16
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Co-ordination
of BA Advances
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Each
Lender shall advance its Applicable Percentage of each Advance by way of
Bankers' Acceptances in accordance with the provisions set forth
below.
4.16.1 The
Agent, promptly following receipt of a notice from the Borrower pursuant
to
Section 4.5 requesting an Advance by way of Bankers' Acceptances, shall
advise
each Lender of the aggregate face amount and term(s) of the Bankers' Acceptances
to be accepted by it, which term(s) shall be identical for all
Lenders. The aggregate face amount of Bankers' Acceptances to be
accepted by a Lender shall be determined by the Agent by reference to the
respective Commitments of the Lenders, except that, if the face amount
of a
Bankers' Acceptance would not be $1000 or a whole multiple thereof, the
face
amount shall be increased or reduced by the Agent in its sole discretion
to the
nearest whole multiple of $1000.
4.16.2 Information
concerning the term, maturity date and price payable for Bankers' Acceptances
and, if applicable, the identity of purchasers of Bankers' Acceptances
shall be
provided by the Borrower to the Agent and by the Agent to the Lenders in
accordance with Section 4.14.
4.16.3 Each
Lender shall transfer to the Agent at the Branch of Account for value on
each
Drawdown Date immediately available Cdn. Dollars in an aggregate amount
equal to
the BA Discount Proceeds of all Bankers' Acceptances accepted and sold
or
purchased by the Lender on such Drawdown Date net of the applicable Bankers'
Acceptance Fee and net of the amount required to pay any of its previously
accepted Bankers' Acceptances that are maturing on the Drawdown Date or
any of
its other Advances that are being converted to Bankers' Acceptances on
the
Drawdown Date.
4.16.4 If
the
Agent determines that all the conditions precedent to an Advance specified
in
this Agreement have been met, it shall advance to the Borrower the amount
delivered by each Lender by crediting the Designated Account before 2:30
p.m.
(Toronto time) on the Drawdown Date, but if the conditions precedent to
the
Advance are not met by 2:30 p.m. (Toronto time) on the Drawdown Date, the
Agent
shall return the funds to the Lenders or invest them in an overnight investment
as orally instructed by each Lender until such time as the Advance is
made.
4.16.5 Notwithstanding
any other provision hereof, for the purpose of determining the amount to
be
transferred by a Lender to the Agent for the account of the Borrower in
respect
of the sale of any Bankers' Acceptance issued by the Borrower and accepted
by
such Lender, the proceeds of sale thereof shall be deemed to be an amount
equal
to the BA Discount Proceeds calculated with respect
thereto. Accordingly, in respect of any particular Bankers'
Acceptance accepted by it, a Lender in addition to its entitlement to retain
the
applicable Bankers' Acceptance Fee for its own account shall be entitled
to
retain for its own account the amount, if any, by which the actual proceeds
of
sale thereof exceed the BA Discount Proceeds calculated with respect thereto,
and shall be required to pay out of its own funds the amount, if any, by
which
the actual proceeds of sale thereof are less than the BA Discount Proceeds
calculated with respect thereto.
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4.17
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Non
BA Lender
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Whenever
the Borrower requests an Advance that includes Bankers' Acceptances, each
Lender
that is not permitted by Applicable Law or by customary market practice
to
accept a Bankers' Acceptance (a "Non BA Lender") shall, in lieu of accepting
its
pro rata amount of such Bankers' Acceptances, make available to the Borrower
on
the Drawdown Date a loan (a "BA Equivalent Loan") in Canadian Dollars and
in an
amount equal to the BA Discount Proceeds of the Bankers' Acceptances that
the
Non BA Lender would have been required to accept on the Drawdown Date if
it were
able to accept Bankers' Acceptances. Each Non BA Lender shall also be
entitled to deduct from the BA Equivalent Loan an amount equal to the Bankers
Acceptance Fee that would have been applicable had it been able to accept
Bankers' Acceptances. The BA Equivalent Loan shall have a term equal
to the term of the Bankers' Acceptances that the Non BA Lender would otherwise
have accepted and the Borrower shall, at the end of that term, be obligated
to
pay the Non BA Lender an amount equal to the aggregate face amount of the
Bankers' Acceptances that it would otherwise have accepted. All
provisions of this Agreement applicable to Bankers' Acceptances and Lenders
that
accept Bankers' Acceptances shall apply mutatis mutandis to BA Equivalent
Loans
and Non BA Lenders and, without limiting the foregoing, Advances shall
include
BA Equivalent Loans.
4.18
|
Payment
of Bankers' Acceptances
|
The
Borrower shall provide for the payment to the Agent at the Branch of Account
for
the account of the applicable Lenders of the full face amount of each Bankers'
Acceptance accepted for its account on the earlier of (i) the date of maturity
of a Bankers' Acceptance and (ii) the date on which any Obligations become
due
and payable pursuant to Section 7.2. The Lenders shall be entitled to
recover interest from the Borrower at a rate of interest per annum equal
to the
rate applicable to Prime Rate Advances under the Credit under which the
Bankers'
Acceptance was issued, compounded monthly, upon any amount payment of which
has
not been provided for by the Borrower in accordance with this
Section. Interest shall be calculated from and including the date of
maturity of each Bankers' Acceptance up to but excluding the date such
payment,
and all interest thereon, both before and after demand, default and judgment,
is
provided for by the Borrower.
If
the
Borrower provides cash in response to any Obligations becoming due and
payable
under Section 7.2, it shall be entitled to receive interest on the cash
provided
in accordance with Section 10.10 as long as the cash is held as Cash
Collateral.
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4.19
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Deemed
Advance - Bankers'
Acceptances
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Except
for amounts which are paid from the proceeds of a rollover of a Bankers'
Acceptance or for which payment has otherwise been funded by the Borrower,
any
amount which a Lender pays to any third party on or after the date of maturity
of a Bankers' Acceptance in satisfaction thereof or which is owing to the
Lender
in respect of such a Bankers' Acceptance on or after the date of maturity
of
such a Bankers' Acceptance, shall be deemed to be a Prime Rate Advance
to the
Borrower under this Agreement. Each Lender shall forthwith give
notice of the making of such a Prime Rate Advance to the Borrower and the
Agent
(which shall promptly give similar notice to the other
Lenders). Interest shall be payable on such Prime Rate Advances in
accordance with the terms applicable to Prime Rate Advances.
4.20
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Waiver
|
The
Borrower shall not claim from a Lender any days of grace for the payment
at
maturity of any Bankers' Acceptances presented and accepted by the Lender
pursuant to this Agreement. The Borrower waives any defence to
payment which might otherwise exist if for any reason a Bankers' Acceptance
shall be held by a Lender in its own right at the maturity thereof, and
the
doctrine of merger shall not apply to any Bankers' Acceptance that is at
any
time held by a Lender in its own right.
4.21
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Degree
of Care
|
Any
executed orders to be used as Bankers' Acceptances shall be held in safekeeping
with the same degree of care as if they were the Lender's own property,
and
shall be kept at the place at which such orders are ordinarily held by
such
Lender.
4.22
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Indemnity
|
The
Borrower shall indemnify and hold the Lenders, and each of them, harmless
from
any loss, cost, damage or expense with respect to any Bankers' Acceptance
dealt
with by the Lenders for the Borrower's account, but shall not be obliged
to
indemnify a Lender for any loss, cost, damage or expense caused by the
negligence or wilful misconduct of that Lender.
4.23
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Obligations
Absolute
|
The
obligations of the Borrower with respect to Bankers' Acceptances under
this
Agreement shall be unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly
in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including
the following circumstances:
(a)
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any
lack of validity or enforceability of any order accepted by a
Lender as a
Bankers' Acceptance; or
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(b)
|
the
existence of any claim, set-off, defence or other right which
the Borrower
may have at any time against the holder of a Bankers' Acceptance,
a Lender
or any other person or entity, whether in connection with this
Agreement
or otherwise.
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4.24
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Shortfall
on Drawdowns, Rollovers and
Conversions
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The
Borrower agrees that:
(a)
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the
difference between the amount of an Advance requested by the
Borrower by
way of Bankers' Acceptances and the actual proceeds of the Bankers'
Acceptances;
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(b)
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the
difference between the actual proceeds of a Bankers' Acceptance
and the
amount required to pay a maturing Bankers' Acceptance, if a Bankers'
Acceptance is being rolled over;
and
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(c)
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the
difference between the actual proceeds of a Bankers' Acceptance
and the
amount required to repay any Advance which is being converted
to a
Bankers' Acceptance;
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shall
be
funded and paid by the Borrower from its own resources, by 11:00 a.m. on
the day
of the Advance or may be advanced as a Prime Rate Advance under the Credit
if
the Borrower is otherwise entitled to an Advance under the Credit.
4.25
|
Prohibited
Use of Bankers'
Acceptances
|
The
Borrower shall not enter into any agreement or arrangement of any kind
with any
person to whom Bankers' Acceptances have been delivered whereby the Borrower
undertakes to replace such Bankers' Acceptances on a continuing basis with
other
Bankers' Acceptances, nor shall the Borrower directly or indirectly take,
use or
provide Bankers' Acceptances as security for loans or advances from any
other
person.
4.26
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Failure
of Lender to Fund
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4.26.1 Unless
the Agent has received notice from a Lender before the proposed date
of any Advance that such Lender will not make available to the Agent such
Lender’s share of such Advance, the Agent may assume that such Lender has made
such share available on such date in accordance with the provisions of
this
Agreement concerning funding by Lenders and may, in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In
that event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable
Advance
available to the Agent, then the applicable Lender shall pay to the Agent
forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for
each
day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower
to
but excluding the date of payment to the Agent, at a rate determined by
the
Agent in accordance with prevailing banking industry practice on interbank
compensation. If such Lender pays such amount to the Agent, then such
amount shall constitute such Lender’s Advance. If the Lender does not
do so forthwith, the Borrower shall pay to the Agent forthwith on demand
such
corresponding amount with interest thereon at the interest rate applicable
to
the Advance in question. Any payment by the Borrower shall be without
prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that has
failed to
make such payment to the Agent.
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4.26.2 Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 4.26.1, if any Lender fails to make available
to the
Agent its Applicable Percentage of any Advance (such Lender being herein
called
the "Defaulting Lender"), the Agent shall forthwith give notice of such
failure
by the Defaulting Lender to the Borrower and the other Lenders. The
Agent shall then forthwith give notice to the other Lenders that any Lender
may
make available to the Agent all or any portion of the Defaulting Lender's
Applicable Percentage of such Advance (but in no way shall any other Lender
or
the Agent be obliged to do so) in the place of the Defaulting
Lender. If more than one Lender gives notice that it is prepared to
make funds available in the place of a Defaulting Lender in such circumstances
and the aggregate of the funds which such Lenders (herein collectively
called
the "Contributing Lenders" and individually called the "Contributing Lender")
are prepared to make available exceeds the amount of the Advance which
the
Defaulting Lender failed to make, then each Contributing Lender shall be
deemed
to have given notice that it is prepared to make available its Applicable
Percentage of such Advance based on the Contributing Lenders' relative
commitments to advance in such circumstances. If any Contributing
Lender makes funds available in the place of a Defaulting Lender in such
circumstances, then the Defaulting Lender shall pay to any Contributing
Lender
making the funds available in its place, forthwith on demand, any amount
advanced on its behalf together with interest thereon at the rate applicable
to
such Advance from the date of advance to the date of payment, against payment
by
the Contributing Lender making the funds available of all interest received
in
respect of the Advance from the Borrower. The failure of any Lender
to make available to the Agent its Applicable Percentage of any Advance
as
required herein shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations to
make
available to the Agent its Applicable Percentage of any Advance as required
herein.
4.27
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Payments
by the Borrower
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All
payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement
shall
be made to and received by the Agent and shall be distributed by the Agent
to
the Lenders as soon as possible upon receipt by the Agent. Except as
otherwise provided in this Agreement (including Section 4.28), the Agent
shall
distribute:
(a)
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payments
of interest in accordance with each Lender's Applicable Percentage
of the
Credit;
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(b)
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repayments
of principal in accordance with each Lender's Applicable Percentage
of the
Credit; and
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(c)
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all
other payments received by the Agent, including amounts received
upon
enforcement of the Obligations, in accordance with each Lender's
Applicable Percentage of the Credit, except that no Lender shall
receive
an amount in excess of the amounts owing to it in respect of
the
Obligations.
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If
the
Agent does not distribute a Lender's share of a payment made by the Borrower
to
that Lender for value on the day that payment is made or deemed to have
been
made to the Agent, the Agent shall pay to the Lender on demand an amount
equal
to the product of (i) the rate per annum determined by the Agent in accordance
with prevailing banking industry practice on interbank compensation multiplied
by (ii) the Lender's share of the amount received by the Agent from the
Borrower
and not so distributed, multiplied by (iii) a fraction, the numerator of
which
is the number of days that have elapsed from and including the date of
receipt
of the payment by the Agent to but excluding the date on which the payment
is
made by the Agent to such Lender and the denominator of which is
365.
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4.28
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Payments
by Agent
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4.28.1 For
greater certainty, the following provisions shall apply to any and all
payments
made by the Agent to the Lenders hereunder:
(a)
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the
Agent shall be under no obligation to make any payment (whether
in respect
of principal, interest, fees or otherwise) to any Lender until
an amount
in respect of such payment has been received by the Agent from
the
Borrower;
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(b)
|
if
the Agent receives less than the full amount of any payment of
principal,
interest, fees or other amount owing by the Borrower under this
Agreement,
the Agent shall have no obligation to remit to each Lender any
amount
other than such Lender's Applicable Percentage of that amount
which is the
amount actually received by the
Agent;
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(c)
|
if
any Lender advances more or less than its Applicable Percentage
of the
Credit, such Lender's entitlement to such payment shall be increased
or
reduced, as the case may be, in proportion to the amount actually
advanced
by such Lender;
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(d)
|
if
a Lender's Applicable Percentage of an Advance has been advanced,
or a
Lender's Commitment has been outstanding, for less than the full
period to
which any payment (other than a payment of principal) by the
Borrower
relates, such Lender's entitlement to such payment shall be reduced
in
proportion to the length of time such Lender's Applicable Percentage
of
the Credit or such Lender's Commitment, as the case may be, has
actually
been outstanding;
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(e)
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the
Agent acting reasonably and in good faith shall, after consultation
with
the Lenders in the case of any dispute, determine in all cases
the amount
of all payments to which each Lender is entitled and such determination
shall, in the absence of manifest error, be binding and conclusive;
and
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(f)
|
upon
request, the Agent shall deliver a statement detailing any of
the payments
to the Lenders referred to herein.
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4.28.2 Unless
the Agent has received notice from the Borrower before the date on which
any
payment is due to the Agent for the account of any Lender that the Borrower
will
not make such payment, the Agent may assume that the Borrower has made
such
payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such
assumption, distribute the amount due to the Lenders. In that event,
if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders
severally agrees to repay to the Agent forthwith on demand the amount so
distributed to such Lender with interest thereon, for each day from and
including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the
date of
payment to the Agent, at a rate determined by the Agent in accordance with
prevailing banking industry practice on interbank compensation.
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4.29
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Prohibited
Rates of Interest
|
It
is the
intention of the parties to comply with applicable usury laws now or hereafter
enacted. Accordingly, notwithstanding any other provisions of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, in no event shall any Loan Document
require the payment or permit the collection of interest or other amounts
in an
amount or at a rate in excess of the amount or rate that is permitted by
Applicable Law or in an amount or at a rate that would result in the receipt
by
the Lenders or the Agent of interest at a criminal rate, as the terms "interest"
and "criminal rate" are defined under the Criminal Code
(Canada). Where more than one such law is applicable to the Borrower,
the Borrower shall not be obliged to make payment in an amount or at a
rate
higher than the lowest amount or rate permitted by such laws. If from
any circumstances whatever, fulfilment of any provision of any Loan Document
shall involve transcending the limit of validity prescribed by Applicable
Law
for the collection or charging of interest, the obligation to be fulfilled
shall
be reduced to the limit of such validity, and if from any such circumstances
the
Agent or the Lenders shall ever receive anything of value as interest or
deemed
interest under any Loan Document in an amount that would exceed the highest
lawful rate of interest permitted by Applicable Law, such amount that would
be
excessive interest shall be applied to the reduction of the principal amount
of
the Credit, and not to the payment of interest, or if such excessive interest
exceeds the unpaid principal balance of the Credit, the amount exceeding
the
unpaid balance shall be refunded to the Borrower. In determining
whether or not the interest paid or payable under any specified contingency
exceeds the highest lawful rate, the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders
shall,
to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, characterize any
non-principal payment as an expense, fee or premium rather than as interest,
exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, amortize, prorate,
allocate and spread the total amount of interest throughout the term of
such
indebtedness so that interest thereon does not exceed the maximum amount
permitted by Applicable Law, and/or allocate interest between portions
of such
indebtedness to the end that no such portion shall bear interest at a rate
greater than that permitted by Applicable Law. For the purposes of
the application of the Criminal Code (Canada), the effective annual
rate of interest shall be determined in accordance with generally accepted
actuarial practices and principles and in the event of any dispute, a
certificate of a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries appointed
by the
Agent shall be conclusive for the purpose of such determination.
4.30
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Issuance
and Maturity of L/Cs
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Notice
shall be given in respect of an Advance by way of L/C directly to the applicable
Issuing Bank at such time as the Issuing Bank may reasonably require so
that it
has sufficient time to review the proposed form of L/C. A
request shall be in a form acceptable to the Issuing Bank and shall include
the
details of the L/C to be issued. The Issuing Bank shall promptly
notify the Borrower of any comment concerning the form of the L/C requested
by
the Borrower and shall, if the Borrower is otherwise entitled to an Advance,
issue the L/C to the Borrower or as it directs on the Drawdown Date or
as soon
thereafter as the Issuing Bank is satisfied with the form of L/C to be
issued.
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Each
L/C
issued under this Agreement shall have a term which is not more than one
year
after its issuance date or renewal date. An L/C may be renewed by the
Borrower subject to complying with the terms of this Agreement applicable
to an
Advance by way of L/C.
4.31
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Payment
of L/C Fees
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Payment
of L/C Fees shall be made to the Agent on each Interest Payment Date, based
on
information provided to it by each Issuing Bank in respect of L/Cs for
which it
is not the Issuing Bank. L/C Fees shall be calculated at the
rate specified in Section 2.6 on the face amount of each L/C, shall accrue
from
day to day and shall be payable in arrears for the actual number of days
elapsed
from and including the date of Advance or the previous Interest Payment
Date, as
the case may be, to but excluding the current Interest Payment Date, or
including the expiry date of the L/C, as the case may be. L/C fees
shall be calculated on the basis of a 365/366 day year.
4.32
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Payment
of L/Cs
|
The
Borrower shall provide for the payment to the applicable Issuing Bank at
the
branch where the L/C was issued of the full face amount of each L/C (or
the
amount actually paid in the case of a partial payment) on the earlier of
(i) the
date on which the Issuing Bank makes a payment to the beneficiary of an
L/C, and
(ii) the date on which any Obligations become due and payable pursuant
to
Section 7.2. The Issuing Bank shall be entitled to recover interest
from the Borrower at a rate of interest per annum equal to the rate applicable
to Prime Rate Advances (in the case of Canadian Dollar L/Cs) or Base Rate
Advances (in the case of US Dollar L/Cs), compounded monthly, on any amount
payment of which has not been provided for by the Borrower in accordance
with
this Section 4.32. Interest shall be calculated from and including
the date on which the Issuing Bank makes a payment to the beneficiary of
an L/C,
up to but excluding the date such payment, and all interest thereon, both
before
and after demand, default and judgment, is provided for by the
Borrower.
The
obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the Issuing Bank for a payment
to a
beneficiary of an L/C shall be absolute and unconditional (without prejudice
to
the Borrower's right, after reimbursing the Issuing Bank, to claim damages
from
the Issuing Bank for matters arising from the Issuing Bank's wilful misconduct
or gross negligence), and shall not be reduced by any demand or other request
for payment of an L/C (a "Demand") paid or acted on in good faith and in
conformity with Applicable Laws or customs applicable thereto being invalid,
insufficient, fraudulent or forged, nor shall the Borrower's obligation
be
subject to any defence or be affected by any right of set off, counter-claim
or
recoupment that the Borrower may now or hereafter have against the beneficiary,
the Issuing Bank or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, including
the
fact that the Issuing Bank paid a Demand or Demands (if applicable) aggregating
up to the amount of the L/C notwithstanding any contrary instructions from
the
Borrower to the Issuing Bank or the occurrence of any event including the
commencement of legal proceedings to prohibit payment by the Issuing Bank
of a
Demand. Any action, inaction or omission taken or suffered by the
Issuing Bank under or in connection with an L/C or any Demand, if in good
faith
and in conformity with Applicable Laws or customs applicable thereto shall
be
binding on the Borrower and shall not place the Issuing Bank under any
resulting
liability to the Borrower except for gross negligence or wilful
misconduct. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Issuing Bank may receive, accept, or pay as complying with the terms of
the L/C,
any Demand otherwise in order which may be signed by, or issued to, any
administrator, executor, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver or other person
or
entity acting as the representative or in place of, the
beneficiary. The Borrower shall not take any steps, issue any
instructions to the Issuing Bank or any of its correspondents or institute
any
proceedings intended to derogate from the right or ability of the Issuing
Bank
or its correspondents to honour or pay a Demand.
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If
the
Borrower provides cash in response to any Obligations becoming due and
payable
under Section 7.2, it shall be entitled to receive interest on the cash
provided
in accordance with Section 10.10 as long as the cash is held as Cash
Collateral.
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Deemed
Advance - L/Cs
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Except
for amounts that have been funded by the Borrower, any amount that an Issuing
Bank pays to any third Person in respect of an L/C in satisfaction or partial
satisfaction thereof shall also be deemed to be a Prime Rate Advance in
the case
of Canadian Dollar L/Cs or a Base Rate Advance in the case of US Dollar
L/Cs
(under the TD Tranche or the BNS Tranche, if the L/C was issued pursuant
to the
TD Tranche or the BNS Tranche, respectively, and otherwise under the Credit,
with each Lender participating in accordance with Section
4.1). Interest shall be payable on such Advances in accordance with
the terms applicable to such Advances.
4.34
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Prohibited
Use of L/Cs
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The
Borrower shall not directly or indirectly take, use or provide L/Cs as
security
for loans or advances from any other person.
ARTICLE
5
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
5.1
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Representations
and Warranties
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The
Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders as specified
below. Each representation and warranty below is made by the Borrower
as to itself and, in respect of Sections 5.1.1 and 5.1.2(a) only, as to
each
Guarantor.
5.1.1
Corporate
Matters
(a)
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It
is a duly incorporated or amalgamated and validly existing corporation,
or
is a duly established and validly existing partnership, and has
the
corporate or other similar power and authority to enter into
and perform
its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is or will
be a
party, to own its property and to carry on the business in which
it is
engaged.
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(b)
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It
is in compliance with the requirements for carrying on business
in all
jurisdictions in which it carries on business, and has any Permits
required as of the date hereof to enter into and perform its
obligations
under the Loan Documents to which it is or will be a party, to
own its
property and to carry on the business in which it is engaged,
except to
the extent that the non-compliance or absence of Permits would
not have a
material adverse effect on its ability to perform its obligations
under
the Loan Documents.
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(c)
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The
entering into and the performance by it of the Loan Documents
to which it
is or will be a party have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate
action on its part, do not and will not violate its Constating
Documents,
any Applicable Law, any material Permit or any agreement relating
to RCI
Public Debt, and will not in any material respect result in the
creation
of any Lien on any of its property, require it to create any
Lien on any
of its property or result in the forfeiture of any of its
property.
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(d)
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Its
Constating Documents do not restrict the power of its directors
to borrow
money, to give financial assistance by way of loan, guarantee
or
otherwise, or to encumber any or all of its present and future
property to
secure the Obligations, except for restrictions under any Constating
Document which have been complied with in connection with the
Loan
Documents.
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(e)
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It
is not in violation of any term of its Constating Documents and
is not in
violation of any Applicable Law, Permit or agreement relating
to RCI
Public Debt, the violation of which would materially and adversely
affect
its ability to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents,
nor will
its execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents
to which it
is or will be a party result in any such
violation.
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5.1.2 Loan
Documents
(a)
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The
Loan Documents to which it is or will be a party have been or
will be duly
executed and delivered by it and, when executed and delivered,
will
constitute legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against
it in
accordance with their respective terms, subject to the availability
of
equitable remedies, the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency and
similar laws
affecting the rights of creditors generally, and other qualifications
contained in the legal opinions of the Borrower's
Counsel.
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(b)
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To
the Borrower's knowledge, except as reported to the Agent under
Section
6.3.2(a), no Default has occurred and is
continuing.
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5.1.3 Litigation,
Financial Statements Etc.
(a)
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As
of the date of execution of this Agreement, except as disclosed
in any
filing posted by the Borrower on the xxx.xxxxx.xxx website, there
are no litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings
or industrial
or labour disputes outstanding and, to its knowledge after having
made
reasonable inquiry, there are no proceedings or disputes pending
or
threatened in writing, against it or any Restricted Subsidiary
which, in
either case, could materially and adversely affect its ability
to perform
its obligations under the Loan
Documents.
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(b)
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To
its knowledge after reasonable inquiry, all of its quarterly
and annual
financial statements which have been furnished to the Lenders,
or any of
them, in connection with this Agreement (including by posting
on the
xxx.xxxxx.xxx website, or other website generally used in Canada
for public filings by reporting issuers) fairly present its financial
position as of the dates referred to therein and have been prepared
in
accordance with GAAP except, in the case of quarterly financial
statements, certain notes to the statements and normal year-end
audit
adjustments required by GAAP are not
included.
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(c)
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As
of the date of execution of this Agreement, there does not exist
and there
has not occurred since 31 December 2006 any change in its property,
operations or condition (financial or otherwise) that would reasonably
be
expected to have a material adverse effect on its ability to
perform its
obligations under the Loan Documents, nor is there any existing
condition,
event or development that would reasonably be expected to result
in such a
change.
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(d)
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It
is not in default under any agreement relating to RCI Public
Debt to an
extent that would materially and adversely affect the financial
position
of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
or
their ability to carry on business or perform their obligations
under the
Loan Documents.
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(e)
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Other
than as permitted in this Agreement, the Obligations rank equally
and
ratably with all of the Borrower's other Debt, other than Debt
that is by
its terms expressly subordinated to the Obligations and any Debt
that is
preferred by mandatory provisions of Applicable
Law.
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(f)
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As
of the date of this Agreement, its registered office is located
in British
Columbia.
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5.2
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Survival
of Representations and
Warranties
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Unless
expressly stated to be made as of a specific date, the representations
and
warranties made in this Agreement shall survive the execution of this Agreement
and all other Loan Documents, and shall be deemed to be repeated as of
the date
of each Advance (including any deemed Advance) and as of the date of delivery
of
each Compliance Certificate, subject to modifications made by the Borrower
to
the Lenders in writing and accepted by the Required Lenders, acting
reasonably. The Lenders shall be deemed to have relied upon such
representations and warranties at each such time as a condition of making
an
Advance hereunder or continuing to extend the Credit hereunder.
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ARTICLE
6
COVENANTS
AND CONDITIONS
6.1
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Financial
Covenants
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6.1.1 The
Borrower shall ensure that the Debt to Operating Cash Flow Ratio does not
exceed
5.50 to 1 at the end of each of its fiscal quarters.
6.1.2 The
Borrower shall ensure that the Operating Cash Flow to Consolidated Interest
Expense Ratio is not less than 1.75 to 1 at the end of each of its fiscal
quarters.
6.2
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Positive
Covenants
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6.2.1 General
Covenants
(a)
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The
Borrower shall duly and punctually pay the Obligations at the
times and
places and in the manner required by the terms
thereof.
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(b)
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The
Borrower shall cause the Amalgamation to be completed on 1 July
2007 and
shall promptly thereafter deliver to the Agent a certificate
of the
Borrower with copies of its post-Amalgamation Constating Documents,
a list
of officers and directors who are authorized to sign Loan Documents
on its
behalf following the Amalgamation, with specimens of their signatures,
and
copies of resolutions passed to authorize the Borrower to execute,
deliver
and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents following
the
Amalgamation or confirmation that pre-Amalgamation resolutions
of the
Borrower remain in effect.
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(c)
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The
Borrower and each Guarantor shall operate its business in compliance
with
all Applicable Law (including that regarding ownership of persons
carrying
on the type of business that it carries on), all agreements relating
to
RCI Public Debt and its Permits, except where failure to do so
would not
have a material adverse effect on its ability to perform its
obligations
under the Loan Documents to which it is or will be a
party.
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(d)
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The
Borrower and each Guarantor shall maintain in good standing and
shall
obtain, as and when required, all Permits which may be material
to permit
it to acquire, own, operate and maintain its business and property,
except
where failure to do so would not have a material adverse effect
on its
ability to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to
which it is
or will be a party.
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(e)
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The
Borrower will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged,
before
the same shall become delinquent, (i) all material Taxes levied
or imposed
upon the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or upon the income,
profits
or property of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and
(b) all
material lawful claims for labour, materials and supplies, which,
if
unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon the property of the Borrower
or
any Restricted Subsidiary that could produce a material adverse
effect on
the Consolidated financial condition of the Borrower; provided,
however,
that the Borrower shall not be required to pay or discharge or
cause to be
paid or discharged any such Tax or claim whose amount, applicability
or
validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings.
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6.2.2 Inspection
If
a
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower shall at all reasonable
times and from time to time upon reasonable notice, permit representatives
of
the Lenders to inspect any of its property and to examine and take extracts
from
its financial books, accounts and records, including accounts and records
stored
in computer data banks and computer software systems, and to discuss its
financial condition with its senior officers and (in the presence of such
of its
representatives as it may designate) its auditors, the reasonable expense
of all
of which shall be paid by the Borrower, provided that:
(a)
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the
Lenders' exercise of their rights under this paragraph does not
unreasonably interfere with its
operations;
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(b)
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the
Lenders maintain the confidentiality of all information they
receive in
accordance with usual requirements of banker / customer confidentiality,
and do not disclose or use it except for the purposes of this
Agreement;
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(c)
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any
representative of a Lender who is not an employee of that Lender
has
executed and delivered an agreement in favour of the Borrower
and the
Lenders to use any information obtained as a result of any inspection
or
examination on behalf of a Lender only for the purposes of this
Agreement,
and has established to the reasonable satisfaction of the Borrower
and the
Lenders that there is no inherent conflict of interest between
the
business and clientele of the Borrower and the business and clientele
(other than the Lenders) of that
representative;
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(d)
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unless
steps have been taken to enforce all or any part of the Obligations,
the
Lenders and their representatives shall not be entitled to take
copies of
any portion of the books, accounts and records of the Borrower
or any
Restricted Subsidiary that would identify any particular customer
of the
Borrower or the usage made by a particular customer or group
of customers
of the services offered by the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary;
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(e)
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the
examination and inspection does not breach any confidentiality
provision
of any agreement relating to technological aspects of the computer
data
banks and hardware and software systems belonging to the
Borrower.
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6.3
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Reporting
and Notice Requirements
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During
the term of this Agreement, the Borrower shall deliver or cause the delivery
of
the periodic reports specified below and shall give notices in the circumstances
specified below, or cause notices to be given. Any report or notice
shall be considered to have been delivered or given when the Borrower notifies
the Agent that it has been posted by the Borrower on the xxx.xxxxx.xxx
website, or other website generally used in Canada for public filings by
reporting issuers. All financial statements shall be prepared in
accordance with GAAP except that, in the case of quarterly financial statements,
certain notes to the statements and normal year-end audit adjustments required
by GAAP are not included.
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6.3.1 Periodic
Reports
(a)
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The
Borrower shall, as soon as practicable and in any event within
60 days
after the end of each fiscal quarter (including the fourth
fiscal
quarter), cause to be prepared and delivered to the Lenders,
interim
unaudited consolidated and Consolidated financial statements
of the
Borrower as at the end of such fiscal quarter including a
balance sheet,
statement of income and retained earnings and statement of
cash
flows.
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(b)
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The
Borrower shall, as soon as practicable and in any event
within 120 days
after the end of the Borrower's fiscal year, cause
consolidated and
Consolidated annual financial statements of the Borrower
to be prepared
and delivered to the Lenders including a balance sheet,
statement of
income and retained earnings and statement of cash
flows for such fiscal
year, which shall, in the case of the consolidated
financial statements,
be audited by an internationally recognized accounting
firm.
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(c)
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The
Borrower shall, concurrently with the delivery of its quarterly
financial
statements, provide the Lenders with a Compliance
Certificate.
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(d)
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The
Borrower shall, as soon as practicable and in any event within
120 days
after the beginning of the Borrower's fiscal year, cause its
consolidated
budget for the fiscal year to be prepared and delivered to
the Lenders,
including a forecast of capital expenditures and financial
projections
comprised of a balance sheet, income statement and statement
of cash flows
and, if a forecast is prepared by the Borrower and approved
by its board
of directors for the one or two years following the budgeted
fiscal year,
provide a copy of that forecast to the
Lenders.
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Notwithstanding
Sections 6.3.1(a) and 6.3.1(b), if at the end of a relevant fiscal period,
(i)
the aggregate book value of the Excluded Assets did not
constitute more than 10% of the consolidated book value of the assets of
the
Borrower, and (ii) the aggregate operating cash flow of the Excluded Assets
did
not constitute more than 10% of the consolidated operating cash flow of
the
Borrower (in each case calculated on a consolidated basis, including Excluded
Assets, and otherwise based on the definition of Operating Cash Flow),
then the
Borrower shall not be required to provide the Consolidated financial statements
referred to in those Sections for the fiscal period in question.
The
Borrower shall promptly provide all other information reasonably requested
by
the Agent on behalf of the Lenders from time to time concerning the business,
financial condition and property of the Borrower and the Restricted
Subsidiaries.
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6.3.2 Requirements
for Notice
(a)
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The
Borrower shall promptly notify the Lenders of any Default of
which it
becomes aware, using reasonable
diligence.
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(b)
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The
Borrower shall promptly notify the Lenders on becoming aware
of the
occurrence of any litigation, dispute, arbitration, proceeding
or other
event that could reasonably be expected to have a material and
adverse
effect on its ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement,
or
the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and shall from time
to time
provide the Lenders with all reasonable information requested
by any of
the Lenders concerning the status
thereof.
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6.4
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Restricted
Subsidiaries
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(a)
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The
board of directors of the Borrower may designate any Restricted
Subsidiary
or any Person that is to become a Subsidiary as an Unrestricted
Subsidiary, or the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary may
transfer any
assets or properties to an Unrestricted Subsidiary, if (i) prior
to and
immediately after such designation or transfer, no Default shall
have
occurred and be continuing, and (ii) such Subsidiary or Person,
together
with all other Unrestricted Subsidiaries, shall not in the aggregate
have
Net Tangible Assets greater than 15% of the Borrower's Consolidated
Net
Tangible Assets. For the purposes of this Section 6.4(a), (1)
the Borrower's Consolidated Net Tangible Assets shall also include
the
aggregate Net Tangible Assets of such Subsidiary or Person and
all other
Unrestricted Subsidiaries and (2) other Excluded
Assets shall be excluded from the calculation of Net Tangible
Assets and
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
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(b)
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The
board of directors of the Borrower may not designate any Unrestricted
Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary
unless:
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(i)
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such
Unrestricted Subsidiary or such Person is incorporated or organized
in
Canada or a Province or territory thereof, or in the United States
or any
State thereof or the District of Columbia;
and
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(ii)
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immediately
before and after giving effect to such designation, no Default
shall have
occurred and be continuing.
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(c)
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Nothing
in this Section 6.4 shall restrict or limit the Borrower or any
Restricted
Subsidiary from transferring any Excluded Asset to any Unrestricted
Subsidiary or any Person that is to become an Unrestricted
Subsidiary.
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(d)
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As
of the date of this Agreement, there are no Unrestricted
Subsidiaries.
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6.5
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Negative
Covenants
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During
the term of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not do any of the things
specified in this Section without the prior written consent of the Required
Lenders.
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6.5.1 Limitation
on Secured Debt
The
Borrower shall not, and the Borrower shall not permit any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries to, create, assume, incur or guarantee any Secured Debt unless
and
for so long as the Borrower secures the
Obligations equally and ratably with (or prior to) such
Secured Debt. However, the Borrower may incur Secured Debt without
securing the Obligations if, immediately after incurring the Secured Debt,
the
aggregate amount of all Secured Debt plus the aggregate amount of Attributable
Debt then outstanding pursuant to Sale and Leaseback Transactions would
not
exceed 15% of the Borrower's Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. The
aggregate amount of all Secured Debt in the preceding sentence excludes
Secured
Debt that is secured equally and ratably with the Obligations and Secured
Debt
that is being repaid concurrently. Any Lien which is granted to
secure the Obligations under this Section 6.5.1 shall be discharged at
the same
time as the discharge of the Lien securing the Secured Debt that gave rise
to
the obligation to secure the Obligations under this Section 6.5.1.
6.5.2 Limitation
on Sale and Leaseback Transactions
The
Borrower shall not permit, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary
to,
enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction, unless either (i) immediately
thereafter, the sum of (1) the Attributable Debt to be outstanding pursuant
to
such Sale and Leaseback Transaction and all other Sale and Leaseback
Transactions entered into by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary on
or after
the date of this Agreement (or, in the case of a Restricted Subsidiary,
the date
on which it became a Restricted Subsidiary, if on or after the date of
this
Agreement) and (2) the aggregate amount of all Secured Debt, excluding
Secured
Debt which is secured equally and ratably with the Obligations, would not
exceed
15% of the Borrower's Consolidated Net Tangible Assets, or (ii) an amount
equal
to the greater of the net proceeds to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary
from such sale and the Attributable Debt to be outstanding pursuant to
such Sale
and Leaseback Transaction is used within 180 days to retire Debt of the
Borrower
or a Restricted Subsidiary, and such retirement of Debt complies with all
other
conditions of this Agreement. However, Debt which is subordinate to
the Obligations or that is owed to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary
may
not be retired.
6.5.3 Limitation
on Restricted Subsidiary Debt
The
Borrower will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly,
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Debt (other than Debt to the
extent
that the Obligations are secured equally and ratably with (or prior to)
such
Debt), unless (i) the Obligations are guaranteed (which guarantee may be
on an
unsecured basis) by such Restricted Subsidiary such that the claim of the
Agent
on behalf of the Lenders under such guarantee ranks prior to or equally
and
ratably with such Debt or (ii) after giving effect to the incurrence of
such
Debt and the application of the proceeds therefrom, the sum of (without
duplication) (x) the aggregate principal amount of Debt (other than Exempted
Secured Debt) of all Restricted Subsidiaries, (y) the then outstanding
principal
amount of Secured Debt of the Borrower (not on a Consolidated basis) and
(z)
Attributable Debt relating to then outstanding Sale and Leaseback Transactions,
would not exceed 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the Borrower,
provided however that this restriction will not apply to, and there will
be
excluded from any calculation hereunder (A) Debt owing by a Restricted
Subsidiary to the Borrower or to another Restricted Subsidiary, and (B)
Debt
secured by the Liens described in items (a) to (g) immediately below, and
provided, further, that this restriction will not prohibit the incurrence
of
Debt in connection with any extension, renewal or replacement (including
successive extensions, renewals or replacements), in whole or in part,
of any
Debt of the Restricted Subsidiaries (provided that the principal amount
of such
Debt immediately prior to such extension, renewal or replacement is not
increased):
(a)
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Liens
on Excluded Assets;
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(b)
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pledges
or deposits under worker’s compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws
or similar legislation or good faith deposits in connection with
bids,
tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Debt) or leases
or
deposits of cash or bonds or other direct obligations of the
United
States, Canada or any Canadian province to secure surety or appeal
bonds
or deposits as security for contested taxes or import duties
or for the
payment of rents;
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(c)
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Liens
imposed by law, such as carriers, warehousemen’s, and mechanics’ liens or
other liens arising out of judgments or awards with respect to
which an
appeal or other proceeding for review is being prosecuted (and
as to which
any foreclosure or other enforcement proceeding shall have been
effectively stayed);
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(d)
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Liens
for property taxes not yet subject to penalties for non payment
or which
are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings
(and as
to which foreclosure or other enforcement proceedings shall have
been
effectively stayed);
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(e)
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Liens
in favour of issuers of surety bonds issued in the ordinary course
of
business;
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(f)
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minor
survey exceptions, minor encumbrances, easements or reservations
of or
rights of others for rights of way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph
and
telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning or other
restrictions as to the use of real properties or Liens incidental
to the
conduct of the business of the Person incurring them or the ownership
of
its properties which were not incurred in connection with Debt
or other
extensions of credit and which do not in the aggregate materially
detract
from the value of such properties or materially impair their
use in the
operation of the business of such
Person;
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(g)
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Liens
in favour of Xxxx Canada under any partial system agreement or
related
agreement providing for the construction and installation by
Xxxx Canada
of cables, attachments, connectors, support structures, closures
and other
equipment in accordance with the plans and specifications of
the Borrower
or any Restricted Subsidiary and the lease by Xxxx Canada of
such
equipment to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in accordance
with
tariffs published by Xxxx Canada from time to time as approved
by
regulatory authorities, the absence of which would materially
and
adversely affect the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries
considered
as a whole.
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6.5.4 Corporate
Matters
The
Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to
consolidate, amalgamate or merge with or into any other person, or convey,
transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of its properties and assets substantially
as an entirety to any person by liquidation, winding-up or otherwise (in
one
transaction or a series of related transactions), except:
(a)
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any
such transaction involving solely the Borrower and one or more
Restricted
Subsidiaries, including the
Amalgamation;
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(b)
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any
such transaction involving solely Restricted Subsidiaries;
or
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(c)
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any
such transaction between the Borrower and/or one or more Restricted
Subsidiaries and another person where, immediately after an amalgamation,
consolidation or merger, the continuing entity is itself the
Borrower (if
the Borrower is a party to the transaction) or a Restricted
Subsidiary;
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and
provided that, immediately after giving effect to the transaction (and
treating
any Debt which becomes an obligation of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary
in connection with or as a result of the transaction as having been incurred
at
the time of the transaction), no Default has occurred and is
continuing.
ARTICLE
7
DEFAULT
7.1
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Events
of Default
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Each
of
the following events shall constitute an Event of Default under this
Agreement:
(a)
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the
Borrower fails to pay any amount of principal or interest (including
any
amount relating to a Bankers' Acceptance or an L/C) within three
days of
when due or to pay fees or other Obligations (apart from principal
and
interest) within five days of when due;
or
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(b)
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the
Borrower or any Guarantor makes any representation or warranty
under any
of the Loan Documents which is incorrect or incomplete in any
material
respect when made or deemed to be made, and which is not corrected
within
ten Business Days after the Agent, for and on behalf of the Lenders,
gives
notice thereof; or
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(c)
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the
Borrower or any Guarantor ceases or threatens to
cease to carry on its business (other than in accordance with
Section
6.5.4) or admits its inability or fails to pay its indebtedness
generally;
or
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(d)
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the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary permits any default under
one or
more agreements or instruments relating to its Debt other than
the
Obligations or permits any other event to occur and to continue
without
being waived or cured after any applicable grace period specified
in such
agreements or instruments, if as a result of one or more of such
events
the date on which Debt in an aggregate amount of
$25,000,000 or more becomes due is accelerated, or
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary fails to pay Debt in
an
aggregate amount of $25,000,000 or more when due;
or
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(e)
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there
is a Change in Control Triggering Event;
or
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(f)
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the
Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary becomes a bankrupt (voluntarily
or
involuntarily); or becomes subject to any proceeding seeking
liquidation,
arrangement, relief of creditors or the appointment of a receiver
or
trustee over any material part of its property, and such proceeding,
if
instituted against the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, is
not
contested diligently, in good faith and on a timely basis and
dismissed or
stayed within 45 days of its commencement or issuance;
or
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(g)
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a
final judgment, writ of execution, garnishment or attachment
or similar
process is issued or levied in an amount of $25,000,000 or more
against
any of the property of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary
and is not
released, bonded, satisfied, discharged, vacated, stayed or accepted
for
payment by an insurer within 45 days after its entry, commencement
or
levy; or
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(h)
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there
is a breach of any other provision of any of the Loan Documents
and such
breach is not corrected or otherwise satisfied within 30 days
after the
Agent, for and on behalf of the Lenders, gives written notice
thereof.
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7.2
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Acceleration
and Termination of Rights
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If
any
Event of Default occurs, no Lender shall be under any further obligation
to make
Advances and the Required Lenders may instruct the Agent to give notice
to the
Borrower declaring the Lenders' obligations to make Advances to be
terminated, whereupon the same shall forthwith terminate, declaring the
Obligations or any of them to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon they
shall
become and be forthwith due and payable without presentment, demand, protest
or
further notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by
the
Borrower, and/or demanding that the Borrower deposit forthwith with the
Agent
for the Lenders' benefit Cash Collateral equal to the full principal amount
at
maturity of all L/Cs and Bankers' Acceptances then outstanding for its
account.
Notwithstanding
the preceding paragraph, if the Borrower becomes a bankrupt (voluntarily
or
involuntarily), or institutes any proceeding seeking liquidation, rearrangement,
relief of debtors or creditor or the appointment of a receiver or trustee
over
any material part of its property, then without prejudice to the other
rights of
the Lenders as a result of any such event, without any notice or action
of any
kind by the Agent or the Lenders, and without presentment, demand or protest,
the Lenders' obligation to make Advances shall immediately terminate, the
Obligations shall immediately become due and payable and the Borrower shall
be
obligated to deposit forthwith with the Agent for the Lenders' benefit
Cash
Collateral equal to the full principal amount at maturity of all L/Cs and
Bankers' Acceptances then outstanding for its account.
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7.3
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Payment
of L/Cs and Bankers'
Acceptances
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Immediately
upon any Obligations becoming due and payable under Section 7.2, the Borrower
shall, without necessity of further act or evidence, be and become thereby
unconditionally obligated to deposit forthwith with the Agent for the Lenders'
benefit Cash Collateral equal to the full principal amount at maturity
of all
L/Cs and Bankers' Acceptances then outstanding for its account and the
Borrower
hereby unconditionally promises and agrees to deposit with the Agent immediately
upon such demand Cash Collateral in the amount so demanded. The
Borrower authorizes the Lenders, or any of them, to debit its accounts
with the
amount required to pay such L/Cs and to pay such Bankers' Acceptances,
notwithstanding that such Bankers' Acceptances may be held by the Lenders,
or
any of them, in their own right at maturity. Amounts paid to the
Agent pursuant to such a demand in respect of L/Cs and Bankers' Acceptances
shall be applied against, and shall reduce, pro rata among the Lenders,
to the
extent of the amounts paid to the Agent in respect of L/Cs and Bankers'
Acceptances, respectively, the obligations of the Borrower to pay amounts
then
or thereafter payable under L/Cs and Bankers' Acceptances, respectively,
at the
times amounts become payable thereunder.
The
Borrower shall be entitled to receive interest on cash held as Cash Collateral
in accordance with Section 10.12.
7.4
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Remedies
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Upon
the
occurrence of any event by which any of the Obligations become due and
payable
under Section 7.2, the Required Lenders may instruct the Agent to take
such
action or proceedings on behalf of the Lenders and in compliance with Applicable
Law as the Required Lenders in their sole discretion deem expedient to
enforce
the Obligations, all without any additional notice, presentment, demand,
protest
or other formality, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the
Borrower.
7.5
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Perform
Obligations
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If
an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and if the Borrower has
failed
to perform any of its covenants or agreements in the Loan Documents, the
Required Lenders, may, but shall be under no obligation to, instruct the
Agent
on behalf of the Lenders to perform any such covenants or agreements in
any
manner deemed fit by the Required Lenders without thereby waiving any rights
to
enforce the Loan Documents.
7.6
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Remedies
Cumulative
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The
rights and remedies of the Lenders under the Loan Documents are cumulative
and
are in addition to and not in substitution for any rights or remedies provided
by Applicable Law. Any single or partial exercise by the Lenders of
any right or remedy for a default or breach of any term, covenant, condition
or
agreement herein contained shall not be deemed to be a waiver of or to
alter,
affect, or prejudice any other right or remedy or other rights or remedies
to
which the Lenders may be lawfully entitled for the same default or
breach. Any waiver by the Lenders of the strict observance,
performance or compliance with any term, covenant, condition or agreement
herein
contained, and any indulgence granted by the Lenders shall be deemed not
to be a
waiver of any subsequent default.
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7.7
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Set-Off
or Compensation
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Upon
the
occurrence of any event by which any of the Obligations become due and
payable
under Section 7.2, each of the Lenders, the Agent (for and on behalf of
the
Lenders) and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at
any
time and from time to time to set off and apply any and all deposits (general
or
special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency), including
any Cash Collateral, at any time held and other obligations (in whatever
currency) at any time owing by such Lender, the Agent or any such Affiliate
to
or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary
against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter
existing
under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender, although
such
obligations of the Borrower may be contingent or unmatured or are owed
to a
branch or office of such Lender different from the branch or office holding
such
deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each of the
Lenders, the Agent and their respective Affiliates under this Section are
in
addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff,
consolidation of accounts and bankers' lien) that the Lenders or their
respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender agrees to promptly notify
the Borrower and the Agent after any such setoff and application, but the
failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff
and
application. If any Affiliate of a Lender exercises any rights under
this Section 7.7, it shall share the benefit received in accordance with
Section
8.5 as if the benefit had been received by the Lender of which it is an
Affiliate.
ARTICLE
8
THE
AGENT AND THE LENDERS
8.1
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Authorization
of Agent
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Each
of
the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints TD as the Agent to act on its behalf
as
the Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the
Agent
to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated
to the Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions
and
powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
8.2
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Rights
as a Lender
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The
Person serving as the Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers
in
its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same
as though
it were not the Agent and the term "Lender" or "Lenders" shall, unless
otherwise
expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the
Person
serving as the Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such
Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act
as the
financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage
in
any kind of business with the Borrower, any Restricted Subsidiary or any
Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Agent and without any
duty to
account to the Lenders.
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8.3
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Exculpatory
Provisions
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The
Agent
shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth
herein
and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, the Agent:
(a)
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shall
not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless
of
whether a Default has occurred and is
continuing;
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(b)
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shall
not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise
any
discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers
expressly
contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Agent
is
required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders
(or
such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly
provided for in the Loan Documents), but the Agent shall not
be required
to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its
counsel, may
expose the Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan
Document or
Applicable Law; and
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(c)
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shall
not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan
Documents,
have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure
to
disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of
its
Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the person
serving as
the Agent or any of its Affiliates in any
capacity.
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The
Agent
shall not be liable to the Lenders for any action taken or not taken by
it (i)
with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other
number
or percentage of the Lenders as is necessary, or as the Agent believes
in good
faith is necessary, under the provisions of the Loan Documents) or (ii)
in the
absence of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. The Agent
shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice
describing the Default is given to the Agent by the Borrower or a
Lender.
Except
as
otherwise expressly specified in this Agreement, the Agent shall not be
responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement,
warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement
or any
other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other
document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or
therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants,
agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or
the
occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness
or
genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement,
instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition specified
in
this Agreement, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required
to be
delivered to the Agent.
8.4
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Reliance
by Agent
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The
Agent
shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying
upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument,
document
or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet
posting
or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed,
sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Agent also
may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed
by it
to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability
for
relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition
hereunder to the making of an Advance, or the issuance of an L/C, that
by its
terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or an Issuing Bank,
the
Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or
Issuing
Bank unless the Agent has received notice to the contrary from such Lender
or
Issuing Bank before the making of such Advance or the issuance of such
L/C. The Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for
the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it,
and
shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance
with
the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
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8.5
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Delegation
of Duties
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The
Agent
may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers
hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more
sub-agents appointed by the Agent from among the Lenders (including the
Person
serving as Agent) and their respective Affiliates. The Agent and any
such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights
and
powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The provisions
of this Article and other provisions of this Agreement for the benefit
of the
Agent shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the
Agent
and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities
in
connection with the syndication of the Credit as well as activities as
Agent.
8.6
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Direct
Payments
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If
any
Lender, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise,
obtains
any payment or other reduction that might result in such Lender receiving
payment or other reduction of a proportion of the aggregate amount of its
Advances and accrued interest thereon or other Obligations greater than
its
pro rata share thereof as provided herein, then the Lender receiving
such payment or other reduction shall (a) notify the Agent of such fact,
and (b)
purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Advances and such
other
Obligations of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall
be
equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by
the
Lenders rateably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of
and
accrued interest on their respective Advances and other amounts owing them,
provided that:
(a)
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if
any such participations are purchased and all or any portion
of the
payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations
shall be
rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such
recovery,
without interest,
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(b)
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the
provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to
(i) any
payment made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant
to and
in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or (ii)
any payment
obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or
sale of a
participation in any of its Advances to any assignee or participant,
other
than to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any Affiliate
of the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (as to which the provisions
of this
Section shall apply); and
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(c)
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the
provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to
(i) any
payment made while no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
in
respect of obligations of the Borrower to such Lender that do
not arise
under or in connection with the Loan Documents, (ii) any payment
made in
respect of an obligation that is secured by a Lien permitted
under this
Agreement or that is otherwise entitled to priority over the
Borrower's
obligations under or in connection with the Loan Documents, (iii)
any
reduction arising from an amount owing to the Borrower or any
Restricted
Subsidiary upon the termination of derivatives entered into between
the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and such Lender, or (iv)
any payment
to which such Lender is entitled as a result of any form of credit
protection obtained by such Lender.
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The
Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively
do so under Applicable Law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant
to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower or any
Restricted Subsidiary rights of setoff and counterclaim and similar rights
of
Lenders with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were
a
direct creditor of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the amount
of
such participation.
8.7
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Administration
of the Credit
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8.7.1 Unless
otherwise specified herein, the Agent shall perform the following duties
under
this Agreement:
(a)
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before
an Advance, ensure that all conditions precedent have been fulfilled
in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, subject to Section
8.8.2 and
any other applicable terms of this
Agreement;
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(b)
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take
delivery of each Lender's Applicable Percentage of an Advance
and make all
Advances hereunder in accordance with the procedures set forth
in Sections
4.10 and 4.16;
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(c)
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use
reasonable efforts to collect promptly all sums due and payable
by the
Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement;
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(d)
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make
all payments to the Lenders in accordance with the provisions
hereof;
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(e)
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hold
all legal documents relating to the Credit, maintain complete
and accurate
records showing all Advances made by the Lenders, all remittances
and
payments made by the Borrower to the Agent, all remittances and
payments
made by the Agent to the Lenders and all fees or any other sums
received
by the Agent and, except for accounts, records and documents
relating to
the fees payable to the Agent for its own account, allow each
Lender and
their respective advisors to examine such accounts, records and
documents
at their own expense, and provide any Lender, upon reasonable
notice, with
such copies thereof as such Lender may reasonably require from
time to
time at the Lender's expense;
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(f)
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except
as otherwise specifically provided for in this Agreement, promptly
advise
each Lender upon receipt of each notice and deliver to each Lender,
promptly upon receipt, all other written communications furnished
by the
Borrower to the Agent on behalf of the Lenders pursuant to this
Agreement,
including copies of financial reports and certificates which
are to be
furnished to the Agent;
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(g)
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forward
to each of the Lenders, upon request and at the expense of the
Lender so
requesting (other than customary record books which shall be
provided at
the expense of the Borrower), copies of this Agreement and other
Loan
Documents (other than the agreements relating to fees payable
by the
Borrower to the Agent for its own account);
and
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(h)
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promptly
forward to each Lender, upon request, an up-to-date loan status
report.
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8.7.2 The
Agent
may take the following actions only with the prior consent of the Required
Lenders, unless otherwise specified in this Agreement:
(a)
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subject
to Section 8.7.3, exercise any and all rights of approval conferred
upon
the Lenders by this Agreement;
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(b)
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give
written notice to the Borrower in respect of any matter in respect
of
which notice may be required, permitted, necessary or desirable
in
accordance with or pursuant to this Agreement, promptly after
receiving
the consent of the Required Lenders, except that the Agent shall,
without
direction from the Lenders, immediately give the Borrower notice
of any
payment that is due or overdue under the terms of this Agreement
unless
the Agent considers that it should request the direction of the
Required
Lenders, in which case the Agent shall promptly request that
direction;
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(c)
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amend,
modify or waive any of the terms of this Agreement, including
waiver of a
Default, if such action is not otherwise provided for in Section
8.7.3;
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(d)
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declare
an Event of Default or take action to enforce performance of
the
Obligations and/or pursue any other legal remedy
necessary;
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(e)
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decide
to accelerate the amounts outstanding under the Credit;
and
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(f)
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pay
insurance premiums, taxes and any other sums as may be reasonably
required
to protect the interests of the
Lenders.
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8.7.3 The
Agent
may take the following actions only if the prior unanimous consent of the
Lenders is obtained, unless otherwise specified herein:
(a)
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amend,
modify, discharge, terminate or waive any of the terms of this
Agreement
if such amendment, modification, discharge, termination or waiver
would
increase the amount of the Credit, reduce the interest rates
and similar
charges applicable to the Credit, reduce the fees payable with
respect to
the Credit, extend any date fixed for payment of principal, interest
or
any other amount relating to the Credit or extend the term of
the
Credit;
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(b)
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amend
the definition of "Required Lenders" or this Section
8.7.3.
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For
greater certainty, no Lender's Commitment or Applicable Percentage may
be
amended without the consent of that Lender.
8.7.4 Notwithstanding
Sections 8.7.2 and 8.7.3, the Agent may,
without the consent of the Lenders, make amendments to the Loan Documents
that
are for the sole purpose of curing any immaterial or administrative ambiguity,
defect or inconsistency, but shall immediately notify the Lenders of any
such
action.
8.7.5 As
between the Borrower, on the one hand, and the Agent and the Lenders, on
the
other hand:
(a)
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all
statements, certificates, consents and other documents which
the Agent
purports to deliver on behalf of the Lenders or the Required
Lenders shall
be binding on each of the Lenders, and the Borrower shall not
be required
to ascertain or confirm the authority of the Agent in delivering
such
documents;
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(b)
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all
certificates, statements, notices and other documents which are
delivered
by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance with this Agreement
shall be
deemed to have been duly delivered to each of the
Lenders;
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(c)
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all
payments which are delivered by the Borrower to the Agent in
accordance
with this Agreement shall be deemed to have been duly delivered
to each of
the Lenders;
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(d)
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unless
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower's
consent
to the appointment of any Successor Agent must be obtained, but
the
Borrower's consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
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8.8
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Rights
of Agent
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8.8.1 In
administering the Credit, the Agent may retain, at the expense of the Lenders
if
such expenses are not recoverable from the Borrower, such solicitors, counsel,
auditors and other experts and agents as the Agent may select, in its sole
discretion, acting reasonably and in good faith after consultation with
the
Lenders.
8.8.2 The
Agent
shall be entitled to rely on any communication, instrument or document
believed
by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed by the proper individual
or individuals, and shall be entitled to rely and shall be protected in
relying
as to legal matters upon opinions of independent legal advisors selected
by
it. The Agent may also assume that any representation made by the
Borrower is true and that no Default has occurred unless the officers or
employees of the Lender acting as Agent, active in their capacity as officers
or
employees responsible for the Borrower's account have actual knowledge
to the
contrary or have received notice to the contrary from any other party to
this
Agreement.
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8.8.3 The
Agent
may, without any liability to account, accept deposits from and lend money
to
and generally engage in any kind of banking, or other business with the
Borrower, as if it were not the Agent.
8.8.4 Except
in
its own right as a Lender, the Agent shall not be required to advance its
own
funds for any purpose, and in particular, shall not be required to pay
with its
own funds insurance premiums, taxes or public utility charges or the cost
of
repairs or maintenance with respect to any property of the Borrower or
any
Restricted Subsidiary, nor shall it be required to pay with its own funds
the
fees of solicitors, counsel, auditors, experts or agents engaged by it
as
permitted hereby.
8.8.5 The
Agent
shall be entitled to receive a fee for acting as Agent as agreed between
the
Agent and the Borrower from time to time.
8.9
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Acknowledgements,
Representations and Covenants of
Lenders
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8.9.1 Each
Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon
the
Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on
such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also
acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the
Agent or
any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents
and
information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to
make its
own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement,
any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished
hereunder or thereunder.
8.9.2 Each
Lender represents and warrants that it has the legal capacity to enter
into this
Agreement pursuant to its charter and any applicable legislation and has
not
violated its charter, constating documents or any applicable legislation
by so
doing.
8.9.3 Each
Lender agrees to indemnify the Agent and hold it harmless (to the extent
not
reimbursed by the Borrower), rateably according to its Applicable Percentage
(and not jointly or jointly and severally) from and against any and all
losses,
claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees,
charges
and disbursements of any counsel, which may be incurred by or asserted
against
the Agent in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or
the
transactions therein contemplated. However, no Lender shall be liable
for any portion of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related
expenses resulting from the Agent’s gross negligence or wilful
misconduct. The Agent shall not be required to take or continue any
action unless the Agent has received sufficient funds or arrangements
satisfactory to it for indemnification to cover the cost of the proposed
action.
8.9.4 To
the
extent that the Borrower for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount
required under Section 10.7 to be paid by it to the Agent (or
any sub-agent or Related Party thereof), each Lender severally agrees to
pay to
the Agent (or any sub-agent or Related Party) such Lender’s Applicable
Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed
expense
or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the
unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related
expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Agent
(or
any such sub-agent) in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party
of any
of the foregoing acting for the Agent (or any such sub-agent) in connection
with
such capacity. The obligations of the Lenders under this Section are
subject to the other provisions of this Agreement concerning several liability
of the Lenders.
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8.9.5
Each
of
the Lenders acknowledges that if the Agent does not receive payment in
accordance with this Agreement, the Agent shall not be obliged to maintain
the
Credit in good standing nor shall any Lender have recourse to the Agent
in
respect of any amounts owing to such Lender under this Agreement.
8.9.6
Each
Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to advance its Applicable
Percentage of Advances in accordance with the terms of this Agreement is
independent and in no way related to the obligation of any other Lender
hereunder.
8.9.7
Each
Lender hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of this Agreement and that
it is
satisfied with its form and content.
8.10
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Collective
Action of the Lenders
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Each
of
the Lenders hereby acknowledges that to the extent permitted by Applicable
Law,
the remedies provided under the Loan Documents to the Lenders are for the
benefit of the Lenders collectively and acting together and not severally
and
further acknowledges that its rights hereunder and under any collateral
security
are to be exercised not severally, but by the Agent upon the decision of
the
Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as
shall be
expressly provided for in the Loan Documents). Accordingly,
notwithstanding any of the provisions contained herein or in any collateral
security, each of the Lenders hereby covenants and agrees that it shall
not be
entitled to take any action hereunder or thereunder, including any declaration
of default hereunder or thereunder but that any such action shall be taken
only
by the Agent with the prior written agreement of the Required Lenders (or
such
other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided
for in
the Loan Documents). Each of the Lenders hereby further covenants and
agrees that upon any such written agreement being given, it shall co-operate
fully with the Agent to the extent requested by the
Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the absence of instructions
from the Lenders and where in the sole opinion of the Agent, acting reasonably
and in good faith, the exigencies of the situation warrant such action,
the
Agent may without notice to or consent of the Lenders take such action
on behalf
of the Lenders as it deems appropriate or desirable in the interest of
the
Lenders.
8.11
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Successor
Agent
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The
Agent
may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the Issuing
Bank
and the Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the
Required Lenders shall have the right, subject to Section 8.7.5(d), to
appoint a
successor, which shall be a Lender having an office in Toronto, Ontario
or an
Affiliate of any such Lender with an office in Toronto. The Agent may
also be removed at any time by the Required Lenders upon 30 days' notice
to the
Agent and the Borrower as long as the Required Lenders, in consultation
with the
Borrower, appoint and obtain the acceptance of a successor within such
30 days,
which shall be a Lender having an office in Toronto or an Affiliate of
any such
Lender with an office in Toronto.
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If
no
such successor has been so appointed by the Required Lenders and has accepted
such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of
its
resignation, then the retiring Agent may on behalf of the Lenders, appoint
a
successor Agent meeting the qualifications specified in the immediately
preceding paragraph, provided that if the Agent notifies the Borrower and
the
Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such
resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such
notice
and (a) the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of
any
collateral security held by the Agent on behalf of the Lenders under any
of the
Loan Documents, the retiring Agent shall continue to hold such collateral
security until such time as a successor Agent is appointed) and (b) all
payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to
or
through the Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly,
until
such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Agent as provided
for in
the preceding paragraph.
Upon
a
successor’s appointment as Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and
become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of
the
former Agent, and the former Agent shall be discharged from all of its
duties
and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already
discharged therefrom as provided in the preceding paragraph). The
fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Agent shall be the same as
those
payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower
and such
successor. After the termination of the service of the former Agent,
the provisions of this Article 8 and of Section 10.7 shall continue in
effect
for the benefit of the former Agent, its sub-agents and their respective
Related
Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of
them
while the former Agent was acting as Agent.
8.12
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No
Other Duties etc.
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Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, no Co-Lead Arranger, Co-Administration
Agent,
Syndication Agent or Co-Documentation Agent named on the cover page of
this
Agreement shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this
Agreement
or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable,
as
the Agent or a Lender hereunder.
8.13
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Provisions
Operative Between Lenders and Agent
Only
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Except
for the provisions of Sections 8.7.2, 8.7.3, 8.7.5, 8.9.2, 8.9.6, 8.10,
8.11 and
8.12, the provisions of this Article relating to the rights and obligations
of
the Lenders and the Agent inter se shall be operative as between the Lenders
and
the Agent only, and the Borrower shall not have any rights or obligations
under
or be entitled to rely for any purpose upon such provisions.
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ARTICLE
9
ADDITIONAL
LENDERS,
SUCCESSORS
AND ASSIGNS
9.1
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Successors
and Assigns
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The
provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit
of
the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted
hereby,
except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its
rights
or obligations hereunder, except in accordance with Section 6.5.4, without
the
prior written consent of the Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign
or
otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i)
in
accordance with the provisions of Section 9.2, or (ii) by way of participation
in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.4, and any other attempted
assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and
void. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be
construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their
respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, sub-agents contemplated
hereby, participants to the extent provided in Section 9.4 and, to the
extent
expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Agent,
any
sub-agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under
or by reason of this Agreement.
9.2
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Assignments
by Lenders
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Any
Lender may at any time assign to one or more persons (other than a natural
person, the Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower) all or a portion
of its
rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion
of its
Commitment and the Advances at the time owing to it), provided
that:
(a)
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except
if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or the
Borrower and
the Agent otherwise agree, the assignee shall not be a non-resident
of
Canada as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada) and shall
be:
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(i)
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a
bank or an authorized foreign bank as defined in the Bank Act
(Canada);
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(ii)
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a
body corporate to which the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada)
applies;
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(iii)
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an
association to which the Cooperative Credit Associations Act
(Canada) applies or a central cooperative credit society for
which an
order has been made under subsection 473(1) of that
Act;
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(iv)
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an
insurance company or a fraternal benefit society incorporated
or formed
under the Insurance Companies Act
(Canada);
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(v)
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a
trust, loan or insurance corporation incorporated by or under
an Act of
the legislature of a province of
Canada;
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(vi)
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a
cooperative credit society incorporated and regulated by or under
an Act
of the legislature of a province of Canada;
or
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(vii)
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an
entity that is incorporated or formed by or under an Act of Parliament
or
of the legislature of a province of Canada and that is primarily
engaged
in dealing in securities, including portfolio management and
investment
counselling;
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(b)
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(i)
except if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
or in the
case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning
Lender's Commitment and the Advances at the time owing to it
or in the
case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender,
the
aggregate amount of the Commitment being assigned (which for
this purpose
includes Advances outstanding thereunder) or, if the applicable
Commitment
is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the
Advances
of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined
as of
the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment
is
delivered to the Agent or, if "Trade Date" is specified in the
Assignment
and Assumption, as of the Trade Date) shall not be less than
$10,000,000;
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(c)
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each
partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate
part
of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this
Agreement;
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(d)
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any
assignment must be approved by each Issuing Bank (such approval
not to be
unreasonably withheld) unless the Person that is the proposed
assignee is
itself already a Lender;
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(e)
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any
assignment must be approved by the Agent (such approval not to
be
unreasonably withheld) unless:
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(i)
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the
proposed assignee is itself already a Lender,
or
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(ii)
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the
proposed assignee is a bank whose senior, unsecured, non-credit
enhanced,
long term debt is rated at least A3, A- or A low by at least
two of
Xxxxx'x Investor Services Inc., Standard & Poor's, a division of The
XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc. and Dominion Bond Rating Service
Limited,
respectively;
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(f)
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any
assignment must be approved by the Borrower (such approval not
to be
unreasonably withheld) unless the proposed assignee is itself
already a
Lender or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
and
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(g)
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the
parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent
an
Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation
fee
of $5,000 and the assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver
an
administrative questionnaire to the Agent in a form satisfactory
to the
Agent.
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Subject
to acceptance and recording thereof by the Agent pursuant to Section 9.3,
from
and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption,
the
assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent
of the
interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and
obligations of a Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
including any collateral security, and the assigning Lender thereunder
shall, to
the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption,
be
released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of
an
Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party
hereto)
but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 10.7, 10.8
and
10.9, and shall continue to be liable for any breach of this Agreement
by such
Lender, with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the
effective
date of such assignment. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of
rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this
paragraph shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by
such
Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance
with
Section 9.4. Any payment by an assignee to an assigning Lender in
connection with an assignment or transfer shall not be or be deemed to
be a
repayment by the Borrower or a new Advance to the Borrower.
9.3
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Register
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The
Agent
shall maintain at one of its offices in Toronto, Ontario a copy of each
Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation
of
the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal
amounts of the Advances owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof
from
time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the
Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and the Borrower,
the Agent
and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register
pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of
this
Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall
be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable
time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
9.4
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Participations
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Each
Lender may (subject to the provisions of Section 9.1) sell participations
to one
or more financial institutions or other persons (other than any person
that owns
or operates a business regulated by the CRTC or any Affiliate of such a
person)
in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitment), but the participant shall
not
become a Lender and:
(a)
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the
Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including its Commitment)
shall
remain unchanged;
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(b)
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the
Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto
for the
performance of such obligations;
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(c)
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the
Borrower, the Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal
solely
and directly with the Lender in connection with the Lender's
rights and
obligations under this Agreement;
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(d)
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no
participant shall have any right to approve any amendment or
waiver of any
provision of this Agreement, or any consent to any departure
by any person
therefrom; and
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(e)
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each
participant shall represent to the Lender that it is not a person
that
owns or operates a business that competes with any of the businesses
of
the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries, including those
regulated by
the CRTC, or an Affiliate of such a
person.
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ARTICLE
10
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
10.1
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Severability
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Any
provision of this Agreement which is or becomes prohibited or unenforceable
in
any relevant jurisdiction shall not invalidate or impair the remaining
provisions hereof which shall be deemed severable from such prohibited
or
unenforceable provision and any such prohibition or unenforceability in
any such
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision
in any
other jurisdiction. Should this Agreement fail to provide for any
relevant matter, the validity, legality or enforceability of this Agreement
shall not thereby be affected.
10.2
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Amendment,
Supplement or Waiver
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No
amendment, supplement or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents,
nor any
consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom, shall in any event
be
effective unless it is in writing, makes express reference to the provision
affected thereby and is signed by the Agent for and on behalf of the Lenders
or
the Required Lenders, as the case may be, and then such waiver or consent
shall
be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose
for
which given. In addition, any amendment or supplement shall require
the written consent of the other parties to the Loan Document in
question. No waiver or act or omission of the Agent, the Lenders, or
any of them, shall extend to or be taken in any manner whatsoever to affect
any
subsequent Event of Default or breach by the Borrower of any provision
of the
Loan Documents or the rights resulting therefrom.
10.3
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Governing
Law
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Each
of
the Loan Documents, except for those which expressly provide otherwise,
shall be
conclusively deemed to be a contract made under, and shall for all purposes
be
governed by and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Province
of
Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable in Ontario. The Borrower
irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to
the
nonexclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario, and
any
appellate court from any of those courts, in any action or proceeding arising
out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for
recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto
irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any
such
action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such court. Each
of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or
proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions
by
suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by Applicable
Law. Nothing in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall
affect any right that the Agent or any Lender may otherwise have to bring
any
action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document
against any the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or its property in
the
courts of any jurisdiction. The Borrower irrevocably and
unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law,
any
objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any
action
or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other
Loan
Document in court any of the Province of Ontario. Each of the parties
hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable
Law, the defence of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action
or
proceeding in any such court.
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10.4
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This
Agreement to Govern
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In
the
event of any conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the terms
of any
other Loan Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern to the
extent
necessary to remove the conflict.
10.5
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Currency
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All
payments made hereunder shall be made in the currency in respect of which
the
obligation requiring such payment arose. Unless the context otherwise
requires, all amounts expressed in this Agreement in terms of money shall
refer
to Canadian Dollars.
Except
as
otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, wherever this Agreement
contemplates or requires the calculation of the equivalent in one currency
of an
amount expressed in another currency, the calculation shall be made on
the basis
of the Exchange Rate at the effective date of the calculation.
10.6
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Liability
of Lenders
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The
liability of the Lenders in respect of all matters relating to this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents is several and not joint or joint and
several. Without limiting that statement, the obligations of the
Lenders to make Advances is limited to their respective Applicable Percentages
of any Advance that is requested, and, in the aggregate, to their respective
Applicable Percentages of the total amounts of the Credit.
10.7
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Expenses
and Indemnity
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All
statements, reports, certificates, opinions, appraisals and other documents
or
information required to be furnished to the Lenders, the Agent, or any
of them,
by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be supplied without cost to
the
Lenders, the Agent, or any of them. The Borrower shall pay on demand
all reasonable third party costs and expenses of the Lenders, or any of
them
(including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Lenders
and the
Agent collectively, but not separately for individual Lenders and the Agent,
on
a solicitor and own client basis), incurred in connection with the preparation,
execution, delivery, administration, periodic review and enforcement of
the Loan
Documents; obtaining advice as to their rights and responsibilities in
connection with the Credit and the Loan Documents; reviewing,
inspecting and appraising any collateral at reasonable intervals; and other
matters relating to the Credit. Such costs and expenses shall be
payable whether or not an Advance is made under this Agreement.
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The
Borrower shall indemnify the Lenders, the Agent, and each of them, against
any
liability, obligation, loss or expense which any of them may sustain or
incur as
a consequence of (a) any representation or warranty made herein by the
Borrower
which was incorrect at the time it was made or deemed to have been made,
(b) a
default by the Borrower in the payment of any sum due from it under or
in
connection with the Loan Documents (irrespective of whether an Advance
is deemed
to be made to pay the amount that has not been paid), including all sums
(whether in respect of principal, interest or any other amount) paid or
payable
to lenders of funds borrowed by the Lenders, the Agent, or any of them,
in order
to fund the amount of any such unpaid amount to the extent the Lenders,
the
Agent, or any of them, are not reimbursed pursuant to any other provisions
of
this Agreement, (c) the failure of the Borrower to complete any Advance
or make
any payment after notice therefor has been given under this Agreement,
(d) the
failure of a purchaser of Bankers' Acceptances (other than one of the Lenders)
to pay for them in any arrangement for sale made by the Borrower and
communicated to the Agent, (e) any other default by the Borrower, and (f)
generally, the Lenders and the Agent having entered into this Agreement
and the
other Loan Documents and made Advances to the Borrower. A certificate
of a Lender or the Agent as to the amount of any such loss or expense shall
be
prima facie evidence as to the amount thereof, in the absence of manifest
error
provided that the Lender determines the amount owing to it in good faith
using
any reasonable method and provides a detailed description of its calculation
of
the amount owing to it.
The
agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement
and
repayment of the Obligations.
10.8
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Taxes
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If
the
Borrower, the Agent, or any Lender is required by Applicable Law to deduct
or
pay any Indemnified Taxes (including any Other Taxes) in respect of any
payment
by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder or under any
other
Loan Document, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased by the Borrower
when
payable as necessary so that after making or allowing for all required
deductions and payments (including deductions and payments applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section) the Agent or Lender, as the
case may
be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such
deductions or payments been required, (ii) the Borrower shall make any
such
deductions required to be made by it under Applicable Law and (iii) the
Borrower
shall timely pay the full amount required to be deducted to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law.
Without
limiting the provisions of the immediately preceding paragraph, the Borrower
shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority
in
accordance with Applicable Law.
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The
Borrower shall indemnify the Agent and each Lender, within 10 days after
demand
therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable
to
amounts payable under this Section) paid by the Agent or such Lender and
any
penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect
thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly
or
legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A
certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to
the
Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Agent), or by the Agent on its
own
behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
As
soon
as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by
the
Borrower to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the
Agent
the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental
Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such
payment
or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the
Agent.
Any
Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding
tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is resident
for tax
purposes, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect
to
payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall, at the request
of the
Borrower, deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Agent), at the time
or
times prescribed by Applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower
or
the Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed
by
Applicable Law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding
or at
a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, (a) any Lender, if requested
by the
Borrower or the Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed
by
Applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent as
will
enable the Borrower or the Agent to determine whether or not such Lender
is
subject to withholding or information reporting requirements, and (b) any
Lender
that ceases to be, or to be deemed to be, resident in Canada for purposes
of
Part XIII of the Income Tax Act (Canada) or any successor provision
thereto shall within five days thereof notify the Borrower and the Agent
in
writing.
If
the
Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received
a
refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified
by the
Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts
pursuant to this Section or that, because of the payment of such Taxes
or Other
Taxes, it has benefited from a reduction in Excluded Taxes otherwise payable
by
it, it shall pay to the Borrower an amount equal to such refund or reduction
(but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts
paid,
by the Borrower under this Section with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes
giving rise to such refund or reduction), net of all out-of-pocket expenses
of
the Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and without interest (other
than
any net after-Tax interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority
with
respect to such refund). The Borrower, upon the request of the Agent
or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus
any
penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental
Authority) to the Agent or such Lender if the Agent or such Lender is required
to repay such refund or reduction to such Governmental
Authority. This paragraph shall not be construed to require the Agent
or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information
relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any
other
Person, to arrange its affairs in any particular manner or to claim any
available refund or reduction.
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10.9
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Increased
Costs etc.
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If
any
Change in Law shall:
(a)
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impose,
modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory
loan,
insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits
with
or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in
by, any
Lender;
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(b)
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subject
any Lender to any Tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to
this
Agreement or any Advance made by it, or change the basis of taxation
of
payments to such Lender in respect thereof, except for Indemnified
Taxes
or Other Taxes covered by Section 10.8 and the imposition, or
any change
in the rate, of any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender;
or
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(c)
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impose
on any Lender or any applicable interbank market any other condition,
cost
or expense affecting this Agreement or Advances made by such
Lender;
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and
the
result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender
of
making or maintaining any Advance (or of maintaining its obligation to
make any
such Advance), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable
by such
Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount),
then upon
request of such Lender the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional
amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs
incurred or reduction suffered.
If
any
Lender determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any lending
office of such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, if any, regarding
capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate
of return
on such Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if
any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender
or the
Advances made by such Lender, to a level below that which such Lender or
its
holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking
into
consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of its holding company
with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower
will pay
to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such
Lender
or its holding company for any such reduction suffered.
A
certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to
compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified
in this Section, including reasonable detail of the basis of calculation
of the
amount or amounts, and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent
manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown
as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt
thereof.
Failure
or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this
Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such
compensation, except that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate
a
Lender pursuant to this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions
suffered more than nine months before the date that such Lender notifies
the
Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions
and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefore, unless the
Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive,
in which case the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended
to
include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
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Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.9, no Lender shall request
any
compensation from the Borrower if similar compensation is not being claimed
as a
general practice from customers of such Lender contractually obligated
to pay
such similar compensation.
10.10
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Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of
Lenders
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If
any
Lender requests compensation under Section 10.9, or requires the Borrower
to pay
any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the
account of any Lender pursuant to Section 10.8, then such Lender shall
use
reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding
or
booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder
to
another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of
such
Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts
payable pursuant to Section 10.8 or 10.9, as the case may be, in the future
and
(ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense
and would
not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. A Lender's
obligation to make any such designation or assignment is subject to the
Borrower
agreeing to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Lender
in
connection therewith after notice to and approval by the Borrower
thereof.
If
any
Lender requests compensation under Section 10.9, if the Borrower is required
to
pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for
the
account of any Lender pursuant to Section 10.8, if any Lender's obligations
are
suspended pursuant to Section 10.11 or if any Lender defaults in its obligation
to fund Loans hereunder, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and
effort,
upon 10 days’ notice to such Lender and the Agent, require such Lender to assign
and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the
restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 9.2), all
of its
interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related
Loan
Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee
may
be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided
that:
(a)
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the
assignee pays the Agent, or the Agent waives, the assignment
fee specified
in Section 9.2(g);
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(b)
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the
assigning Lender receives payment of an amount equal to the outstanding
principal of its Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued
fees and all
other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents
(including any breakage costs and amounts required to be paid
under this
Agreement as a result of prepayment to a Lender) from the assignee
(to the
extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and
fees) or the
Borrower (in the case of all other
amounts);
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(c)
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in
the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation
under Section 10.9 or payments required to be made pursuant to
Section
10.8, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation
or
payments thereafter; and
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(d)
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such
assignment does not conflict with Applicable
Law.
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A
Lender
shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior
thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances
entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease
to
apply.
If
the
Borrower is unable to identify an acceptable assignee and no Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Borrower may cancel the Commitment of the
applicable Lender and pay the Lender all Obligations owed to it, without
penalty
but subject to payment of any losses, costs and other amounts payable to
it
under this Agreement.
10.11
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Illegality
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If
any
Lender determines that any Applicable Law has made it unlawful, or that
any
Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender
or its
applicable lending office to make or maintain any Advance (or to maintain
its
obligation to make any Advance), or to determine or charge interest rates
based
upon any particular rate, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the
Borrower
through the Agent, any obligation of such Lender with respect to the activity
that is unlawful shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Agent
and the
Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer
exist. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall, upon demand
from such Lender (with a copy to the Agent), prepay or, if conversion would
avoid the activity that is unlawful, convert any Advances, or take any
necessary
steps with respect to any L/C in order to avoid the activity that is
unlawful. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall
also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted. Each
Lender agrees to designate a different lending office if such designation
will
avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment
of such
Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.
10.12
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Interest
on Cash Collateral
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If
the
Borrower deposits cash as Cash Collateral pursuant to a requirement under
this
Agreement, the Lender or Lenders holding the cash shall pay the Borrower
interest on the cash while it continues to be held as Cash Collateral at
the
rate offered by the relevant Lenders from time to time for deposits in
the
relevant currency of comparable size and term.
10.13
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Currency
Indemnity
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In
the
event of a judgment or order being rendered by any court or tribunal for
the
payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders or any of them under this Agreement
or for the payment of damages in respect of any breach of this Agreement
or
under or in respect of a judgment or order of another court or tribunal
for the
payment of such amounts or damages, such judgment or order being expressed
in a
currency ("the Judgment Currency") other than the currency payable hereunder
or
thereunder ("the Agreed Currency"), the party against whom the judgment
or order
is made shall indemnify and hold the Lenders harmless against any deficiency
in
terms of the Agreed Currency in the amounts received by the Lenders arising
or
resulting from any variation as between (i) the Exchange Rate at which
the
Agreed Currency is converted into the Judgment Currency for the purposes
of such
judgment or order, and (ii) the Exchange Rate at which each Lender is able
to
purchase the Agreed Currency with the amount of the Judgment Currency actually
received by the Lender on the date of such receipt. The indemnity in
this Section shall constitute a separate and independent obligation from
the
other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and shall apply irrespective
of any
indulgence granted by the Lenders.
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10.14
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Notices
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10.14.1
Except
in
the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be
given by
telephone (and except as provided in Section 10.14.2), all notices and
other
communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered
by
hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail
or
sent by telecopier to the addresses or telecopier numbers specified beside
the
respective signatures of the parties to this Agreement or on any Assignment
and
Assumption.
Notices
sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered
mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by
telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if
not
given on a Business Day between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. local time where
the
recipient is located, shall be deemed to have been given at 9:00 a.m. on
the
next Business Day for the recipient). Notices delivered through
electronic communications to the extent provided in Section 10.14.2, shall
be
effective as provided in that Section.
10.14.2
Notices
and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished
by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet
websites)
pursuant to procedures approved by the Agent, except that the foregoing
shall
not apply to notices to any Lender of Advances to be made if the Lender
has
notified the Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices relating to
Advances by electronic communication. The Agent or the Borrower may,
in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to
it
hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved
by it,
but approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or
communications. Subject to the immediately preceding sentence and the
following paragraph, the Borrower may send notices of Advances and other
communications to the Agent by electronic communication.
Unless
the Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent
to an
e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an
acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the "return receipt
requested" function, as available, return e-mail or other written
acknowledgement), except that if such notice or other communication is
not sent
during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication
shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next
Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted
to an
Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt
by
the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing
clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available
and
identifying the website address therefor.
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10.14.3
Any
party
to this Agreement may change its address or telecopier number for notices
and
other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties
hereto.
10.15
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Time
of the Essence
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Time
shall be of the essence in this Agreement.
10.16
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Further
Assurances
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The
Borrower shall, at the request of the Agent acting on the instructions
of the
Required Lenders, do all such further acts and execute and deliver all
such
further documents as may, in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders,
be
necessary or desirable in order to fully perform and carry out the purpose
and
intent of the Loan Documents.
10.17
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Term
of Agreement
|
Except
as
otherwise provided herein, this Agreement shall remain in full force and
effect
until the indefeasible payment and performance in full in cash of all of
the
Obligations and the termination of all of the Lenders'
Commitments. The obligations of the Borrower in Sections 10.7, 10.8
and 10.9 and of the Lenders in Section 8.9.3 shall continue for the benefit
of
those to whom the obligations are owed notwithstanding the termination
of this
Agreement or the termination of any particular person's role as Agent or
Lender.
10.18
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Counterparts
and Facsimile
|
This
Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto
in
different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but
all of
which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This
Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any separate agreements with
respect
to fees payable to the Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties
relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous
agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject
matter
hereof. Except as provided in ARTICLE 3, this Agreement shall become
effective when it has been executed by the Agent and when the Agent has
received
counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each
of
the other parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a
signature page of this Agreement by telecopy or by sending a scanned copy
by
electronic mail shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart of this Agreement.
The
words
"execution," "signed," "signature," and words of like import in any Assignment
and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the
keeping
of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal
effect,
validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use
of a
paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and
as
provided for in any Applicable Law, including Parts 2 and 3 of the Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada), the
Electronic Commerce Act, 2000 (Ontario) and other similar federal or
provincial laws based on the Uniform Electronic Commerce Act of the Uniform
Law
Conference of Canada or its Uniform Electronic Evidence Act, as the case
may
be.
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10.19
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Waiver
of Jury Trial
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Each
party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted
by
Applicable Law, any right it may have to a trial by jury in any legal proceeding
directly or indirectly arising out of or relating to this Agreement or
any other
Loan Document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (whether
based
on contract, tort or any other theory).
10.20
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Treatment
of Certain Information:
Confidentiality
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Each
of
the Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of Information,
except that Information may be disclosed (a) to it, its Affiliates and
its and
its Affiliates' respective partners, directors, officers, employees, agents,
advisors and representatives (it being understood that the Persons to whom
such
disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such
Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b)
to the
extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction
over it (including any self-regulatory authority), (c) to the extent required
by
Applicable Laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process,
(d)
to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies
hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding
relating
to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights
hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions
substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of
or
participant in, or any prospective assignee of or participant in, any of
its
rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective
counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap, derivative, credit-linked note
or
similar transaction relating to the Borrower and the Obligations, (g) with
the
consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes
publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or
(y)
becomes available to the Agent or any Lender on a non-confidential basis
from a
source other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.
(2) For
purposes of this Section, "Information" means all information
received in connection with this Agreement from the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary relating to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any
of their
respective businesses, other than any such information that is available
to the
Agent or any Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to such
receipt. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of
Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied
with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree
of
care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person
would
accord to its own confidential information. In addition, the Agent
may disclose to any agency or organization that assigns standard identification
numbers to loan facilities such basic information describing the Credit
as is
necessary to assign unique identifiers (and, if requested, supply a copy
of this
Agreement), it being understood that the Person to whom such disclosure
is made
will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed
to make available to the public only such Information as such person normally
makes available in the course of its business of assigning identification
numbers.
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In
addition, and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Agent
may
provide the information described on Schedule F concerning the Borrower
and the
Credit to Loan Pricing Corporation and/or other recognized trade publishers
of
information for general circulation in the loan market.
10.21
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Entire
Agreement
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This
Agreement and the Fee Agreement constitute the entire agreement between
the
parties hereto concerning the matters addressed in this Agreement, and
cancel
and supersede any prior agreements, undertakings, declarations or
representations, written or verbal, in respect thereof.
10.22
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Date
of Agreement
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This
Agreement may be referred to as being dated 29 June 2007 or as of 29 June
2007,
notwithstanding the actual date of execution.
[Note: signature
pages follow]
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IN
WITNESS OF WHICH, the parties have executed this Agreement
Address
For Notice
THE
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA
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The
Bank of Nova Scotia
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Corporate
Banking –
Communications,
Media
&
Technology
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00xx
Xxxxx, 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
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By:
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Toronto,
Ontario
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X.X.
Xxxxxxx
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M5W
2X6
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Managing
Director
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Attention: Managing
Director
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Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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By:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Associate
Director
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[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
THE
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
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The
Toronto-Dominion Bank
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00
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, 0xx
Xxxxx
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Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxx
Tower
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By:
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Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx
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Xxxx
Xxxxx
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X0X
0X0
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Vice
President and Director
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Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxx, Vice President
and
Director
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Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Vice
President
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By:
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Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Vice
President
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[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
ROYAL
BANK OF CANADA
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Royal
Bank of Canada
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00
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
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0xx
Xxxxx
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By:
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Toronto,
Ontario
|
Name:
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X0X
0X0
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Title:
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Attention: X.
Xxxxxx, Managing Director
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Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
CANADIAN
IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE
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Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce
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000
Xxx Xxxxxx
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0xx
Xxxxx, XXX Place
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By:
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Toronto,
Ontario
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Name:
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X0X
0X0
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Title:
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Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxxxx / Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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By:
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Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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Name:
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Title:
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||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
CITIBANK,
N.A., Canadian Branch
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Citibank,
N.A., Canadian Branch
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000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
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Xxxxx
0000
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By:
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Toronto,
Ontario
|
Name:
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X0X
0X0
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Title:
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Attention: X.
Xxxxx
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By:
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Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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Name:
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Title:
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||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
BANK
OF MONTREAL
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Bank
of Montreal
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0
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Floor
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000
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
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By:
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Toronto,
Ontario
|
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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X0X
0X0
|
Director
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Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Director
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||
Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Toronto
Branch
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JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National Association, Toronto Branch
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Xxxxx
0000, Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
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000
Xxx Xxxxxx
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By:
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Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx
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Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxx
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X0X
0X0
|
Vice
President
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Attention: Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxx / Xxxx
XxXxxxxx
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||
Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
BANK
OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Canada
Branch
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Bank
of America, National Association, Canada Branch
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000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
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Xxxxx
0000
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By:
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Toronto,
Ontario
|
Name:
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X0X
0X0
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Title:
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Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxx
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||
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By:
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Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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Name:
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Title:
|
||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
BANK
OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ (CANADA)
|
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Bank
of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Canada)
|
||
Xxxxx
0000, X.X. Xxx 00
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Xxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx Bank Plaza
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By:
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Toronto,
Ontario
|
Name:
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X0X
0X0
|
Title:
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Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx / Xxxxxx Islam
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By:
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Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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Name:
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Title:
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||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
SUMITOMO
MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION OF CANADA
|
||
Sumitomo
Mitsui Banking Corporation of Canada
|
||
Xxxxx
0000
|
||
000
Xxx Xxxxxx
|
By:
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|
Toronto,
Ontario
|
Name:
|
|
X0X
0X0
|
Title:
|
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Attention: Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
|
||
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By:
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Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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Name:
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|
Title:
|
||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
SOCIÉTÉ
GENERALE, (Canada Branch)
|
||
Société
Générale (Canada Branch)
|
||
000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
|
||
Xxxxx
0000
|
By:
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|
Toronto,
Ontario
|
Name:
|
|
X0X
0X0
|
Title:
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Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
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||
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By:
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|
Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
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Name:
|
|
Title:
|
||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
MIZUHO
CORPORATE BANK (CANADA)
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Mizuho
Corporate Bank (Canada)
|
||
000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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||
Xxx
00, Xxxxx 0000
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By:
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|
Toronto,
Ontario
|
Name:
|
|
X0X
0X0
|
Title:
|
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Attention: Xxxx
XxXxxxxxx
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||
|
By:
|
|
Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
|
Name:
|
|
Title:
|
||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
Address
For Notice
THE
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
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||
The
Toronto-Dominion Bank
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as
Agent
|
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Royal
Trust Tower
|
||
00
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
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By:
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Toronto,
Ontario
|
Name:
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M5K
1A2
|
Title:
|
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Attention: Vice-President,
Loan Syndications - Agency
|
||
Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
|
By:
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|
Name:
|
||
Title:
|
||
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
XXXXXX
COMMUNICATIONS INC.
|
||
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc.
|
||
000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
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||
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx
|
||
X0X
0X0
|
By:
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|
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
|
||
Senior
Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer
|
||
Attention: Vice
President, Treasurer
|
||
Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
|
By:
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|
M.
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
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||
with
a copy to:
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Vice
President, Treasurer
|
|
Attention: Senior
Vice President,
General
Counsel &
Secretary
Fax
no.: 000-000-0000
|
[signature
page for Credit Agreement relating to Xxxxxx Communications
Inc.]
SCHEDULE
A
NOTICE
OF ADVANCE OR PAYMENT
[see
reference in Section 4.5]
DATE:
TO:
|
THE
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
Investment
Banking
Loan
Syndications - Agency
Royal
Trust Tower
00
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, 00xx
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx X0X 0X0
|
Attention: Vice
President, Loan Syndications - Agency
Fax
No.: 000-000-0000
|
We
refer
to the credit agreement dated 29 June 2007 among Xxxxxx Communications
Inc., as
Borrower, The Toronto-Dominion Bank, as Agent, and the Lenders named therein,
as
amended, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time (the "Credit
Agreement"). All capitalized terms used in this notice and defined in
the Credit Agreement have the meanings defined in the Credit
Agreement.
Notice
of Advance
Notice
is
hereby given pursuant to Section 4.5 of the Credit Agreement that the Borrower
hereby irrevocably requests that an Advance be made under the Credit as
follows:
(A)
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an
Advance be made in the form of [Bankers’ Acceptances] and/or [a Prime Rate
Advance] and/or [a Base Rate Advance] and/or [a LIBOR
Advance];
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(B)
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[the
aggregate face amount of the Bankers’ Acceptances shall be
$
] and/or [the principal amount of
the Prime Rate Advance shall be
$
] and/or
[the principal amount of the Base Rate Advance shall be
US$
] and/or [the
principal amount of the LIBOR Advance shall be
US$
];
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(C)
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the
Drawdown Date shall be _______________________________________ [and
the Borrower / Lenders shall arrange for the sale of the Bankers’
Acceptances];
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(D)
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until
further notice pursuant to Section 2.6 of the Credit Agreement,
the
interest rates and fees applicable to the Advance are as
follows:
with
respect to Bankers’ Acceptances, the Bankers’ Acceptance Fee +
___________;
with
respect to Prime Rate Advances, the Prime Rate + ___________;
with
respect to Base Rate Advances, the Base Rate
+ ___________;
with
respect to LIBOR Advances, the LIBO Rate
+ ___________;
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(E)
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the
proceeds of the Advance shall be deposited in the Borrower’s account no.
0000-0000-0000000 held at The Toronto Dominion Bank, TD Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X0X 0X0;
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The
undersigned hereby confirms as follows:
(a)
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the
representations and warranties made in Section 5.1 of the Credit
Agreement, other than those expressly stated to be made as of
a specific
date, are true on and as of the date hereof with the same effect
as if
such representations and warranties had been made on and as of
the date
hereof, [subject to modifications made by the Borrower to the Lenders
in writing and accepted by the Required
Lenders];
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(b)
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no
Default has occurred and is continuing on the date hereof or
will result
from the Advance(s) requested
herein;
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(c)
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all
other conditions precedent set out in Section 3.2 [and Section
3.1 in connection with the initial Advance] of the Credit
Agreement have been fulfilled.
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Notice
of Repayment
Notice
is
hereby given pursuant to Section 4.5 of the Credit Agreement that the Borrower
hereby irrevocably notifies you that a repayment will be made under the
Credit
as follows:
(A)
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a
repayment of [maturing Bankers’ Acceptances] and/or [Prime Rate Advances]
and/or [Base Rate Advances] and/or [LIBOR
Advances];
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(B)
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[the
aggregate face amount of maturing Bankers’ Acceptances being repaid shall
be
$
]; and/or
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[the
principal amount of Prime Rate Advances being repaid shall be
$
]; and/or
[the
principal amount of Base Rate Advances being repaid shall be
US$
]; and/or
[the
principal amount of LIBOR Advances shall be
US$________________];
(C)
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the
repayment date shall
be ____________________________;
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(D)
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the
charges for the repayment shall be debited from the Borrower’s bank
account no. 0000-0000-0000000 held at The Toronto Dominion Bank, TD
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X0X
0X0;
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XXXXXX
COMMUNICATIONS INC.
per: ______________________
name:
title:
per: ______________________
name:
title:
2
SCHEDULE
B
COMPLIANCE
CERTIFICATE
[see
reference in Section 1.1.30]
DATE: | ________________________ |
TO:
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THE
LENDERS (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to
below)
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AND
TO:
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THE
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, as Agent
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Reference
is made to the credit agreement dated 29 June 2007 between Xxxxxx Communications
Inc., as Borrower, The Toronto-Dominion Bank, as Agent, and the Lenders
named
therein, as amended, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time
(the
"Credit Agreement"). All capitalized terms used in this Compliance
Certificate and defined in the Credit Agreement have the meanings defined
in the
Credit Agreement.
This
Compliance Certificate is given
pursuant to Section 6.3.1(c) of the Credit Agreement.
We,
<officer's
name> and
<officer's name>, the <officer's title> and the
<officer's title>, respectively, of the Borrower hereby certify
that each of us is familiar with the terms of the Credit Agreement and
in
particular with the terms defined therein which are used herein and further
certify, to the best of our knowledge, information and belief, after due
inquiry:
1.
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that
the representations and warranties made in Section 5.1 of the
Credit
Agreement, other than those expressly stated to be made as of
a specific
date, are true on and as of the date hereof [, subject to
modifications made by the Borrower to the Lenders in writing
and accepted
by the Required Lenders];
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2.
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that
no Default has occurred and is continuing on the date hereof
[or as
the case may be];
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3.
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that
the Borrower has filed its interim unaudited consolidated financial
statements for its most recently completed fiscal quarter, being
the
fiscal quarter ended [which are the same as its
Consolidated financial statements for such fiscal quarter], with
SEDAR and that such financial statements are available via the
Internet at
xxx.xxxxx.xxx;
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4.
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that
as of the end of its most recently completed quarter, [there are no
Excluded Assets]or[the Excluded Assets are as
set out in Schedule IV];
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5.
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that
as of the end of its most recently completed fiscal quarter,
[there
are no Excluded Assets and, as such, interim unaudited Consolidated
financial statements are not required to be included herewith]
or [Excluded Assets do not constitute
more than
10% of either of (i) the consolidated book value of the assets
of the
Borrower, or (ii) the consolidated operating cash flow of the
Borrower (in
each case calculated on a consolidated basis, including Excluded
Assets,
and otherwise based on the definition of Operating Cash Flow)
and, as
such, interim unaudited Consolidated financial statements are
not required
to be included herewith]or[Excluded Assets
constitute more than 10% of either of (i) the consolidated book
value of
the assets of the Borrower, or (ii) the consolidated operating
cash flow
of the Borrower (in each case calculated on a consolidated basis,
including Excluded Assets, and otherwise based on the definition
of
Operating Cash Flow) and, as such, interim unaudited Consolidated
financial statements are included
herewith];
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6.
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that,
as of <insert the date of the end of its most-recently completed fiscal
quarter>,
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(a)
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the
Debt to Operating Cash Flow Ratio is ________________: 1, as
set out in
Schedule I attached;
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(b)
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the
Operating Cash Flow to Consolidated Interest Expense Ratio is
________________: 1 as set out in Schedule II
attached;
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7.
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that
based on the Debt to Operating Cash Flow Ratio, the interest
rates, L/C
Fees and Bankers' Acceptance Fees applicable to the Credit pursuant
to
Section 2.6 of the Credit Agreement are set out in Schedule III
attached.
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XXXXXX
COMMUNICATIONS INC.
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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2
SCHEDULE
C
FORM
OF ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
[see
reference in Section 1.1.8]
ASSIGNMENT
AND ASSUMPTION
This
Assignment
and Assumption
(the “Assignment
and Assumption”) is
dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and
between [Insert name of Assignor]
(the “Assignor”) and
[Insert
name of Assignee] (the “Assignee”).
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given
to
them in the Credit
Agreement
identified below (as amended, the “Credit
Agreement”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby
acknowledged by the Assignee. The Standard
Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed
to and incorporated herein by
reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption
as if set forth herein in full.
For
an agreed consideration, the Assignor
hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee, and
the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases
and assumes from
the Assignor, subject to and in accordance
with the Standard
Terms and Conditions and the Credit
Agreement, as of the
Effective Date inserted by the Agent as contemplated below (i) all of the Assignor’s
rights and
obligations in its capacity as a Lender under the Credit
Agreement and any other
documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related
to the
amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding
rights and obligations of the Assignor under the facility
identified below (including without limitation any letters of credit,
guarantees, and swingline loans included in such facility) and (ii) to the extent permitted to be
assigned under Applicable Law, all claims, suits,
causes of action and any other
right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender)
against any Person, whether known or
unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit
Agreement, any other documents or
instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan-transactions governed
thereby
or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but
not
limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory
claims
and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations
sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights
and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clauses (i)
and (ii) above being referred to herein
collectively as, the
“Assigned Interest”). Such sale and assignment
is
without recourse to the Assignor and, except as expressly
provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without
representation or warranty by the Assignor.
1.
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2.
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3.
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5.
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Facility
Assigned
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Aggregate
Amount of Commitments / Advances for all Lenders1
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Amount
of Commitment/Loans Assigned1
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Percentage
Assigned of Commitment/Loans2
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CUSIP
Number
|
Revolving
Term Credit
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$
|
$
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%
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7.
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[Trade
Date: ______________________________]3
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Effective
Date: ___________, 20___
[TO
BE INSERTED BY AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE
THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER
THEREFOR.]
ASSIGNOR
[NAME
OF ASSIGNOR]
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By:
|
||||
Title:
|
||||
ASSIGNEE
[NAME
OF ASSIGNEE]
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||||
By:
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Title:
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1
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At
the date of the Credit Agreement, the amount is
$2,400,000,000. Amount to be adjusted by the counterparties to
take into account any reductions made between the Trade Date
and the
Effective Date.
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2
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Set
forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitments
/
Advances of all Lenders thereunder.
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3
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To
be completed if the Assignor and the Assignee intend
that the minimum
assignment amount is to be determined as of the Trade
Date.
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[Consented
to and]4
Accepted:
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THE
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, as Agent
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By
|
||||
Title:
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||||
[Consented
to:]5
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||||
[NAME
OF RELEVANT PARTY]
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By
|
||||
Title:
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4
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To
be added only if the consent of the Administrative Agent
is required by
Section 9.2(e) of the Credit
Agreement.
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5
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To
be added for each relevant party only if the consent
of the Borrower
and/or the Issuing Banks is required by Sections 9.2(d)
and (f) of the
Credit Agreement.
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3
STANDARD
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR
ASSIGNMENT
AND ASSUMPTION
Assignor.
The Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal
and
beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest, (ii) the Assigned
Interest is
free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim
and (iii)
it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary,
to
execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate
the
transactions contemplated hereby; and (b) assumes no responsibility
with
respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in
connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document,
(ii) the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency
or
value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii)
the
financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries
or Affiliates
or any other Person obligated in respect of any Loan Document
or (iv) the
performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries
or
Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations
under any Loan Document.
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Assignee.
The Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full
power and
authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and
deliver this
Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions
contemplated
hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (ii)
it meets
all requirements of Section 9.2(a) of the Credit Agreement, (iii)
from and
after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions
of the
Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of
the Assigned
Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder,
(iv) it has
received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies
of the most
recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.3.1
thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information
as it has
deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision
to enter
into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase the Assigned
Interest
on the basis of which it has made such analysis and decision
independently
and without reliance on the Agent or any other Lender, and (v)
if it is a
Foreign Lender, attached to the Assignment and Assumption is
any
documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to Section
10.8 of
the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by the Assignee;
and (b)
agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance on
the Agent,
the Assignor or any other Lender, and based on such documents
and
information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue
to make its
own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the
Loan
Documents, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their
terms all of
the obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are
required to
be performed by it as a Lender.
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Payments.
From and after the Effective Date, the Agent shall make all payments
in
respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal,
interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignee whether such
amounts
have accrued prior to, on or after the Effective Date. The Assignor
and
the Assignee shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments
by the
Agent for periods prior to the Effective Date or with respect
to the
making of this assignment directly between
themselves.
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3.
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General
Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding
upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their
respective
successors and permitted assigns. This Assignment and Assumption
may be
executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall
constitute
one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature
page of
this Assignment and Assumption by telecopy or by sending a scanned
copy by
electronic mail shall be effective as delivery of a manually
executed
counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment
and
Assumption shall be governed by, and construed in accordance
with, the law
governing the Credit Agreement.
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2
SCHEDULE
D
LENDERS
AND THEIR INITIAL COMMITMENTS
[see
reference in Section 1.1.62]
Lender
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Initial
Commitment
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BNS
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$370,000,000
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TD
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$370,000,000
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RBC
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$300,000,000
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CIBC
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$250,000,000
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Citibank,
N.A., Canadian Branch
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$225,000,000
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Bank
of Montreal
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$225,000,000
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JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National Association, Toronto Branch
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$185,000,000
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Bank
of America, National Association, Canada Branch
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$150,000,000
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Bank
of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Canada)
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$125,000,000
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Sumitomo
Mitsui Banking Corporation of Canada
|
$100,000,000
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Société
Générale (Canada Branch)
|
$50,000,000
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Mizuho
Corporate Bank (Canada)
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$50,000,000
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SCHEDULE
E
CHANGE
IN CONTROL PROVISIONS
"Change
in Control" means:
(a) any
transaction (including an amalgamation, merger or consolidation or the
sale of
Capital Stock of the Borrower) the result of which is that any Person or
group
of Persons (as the term "group" is used in Rule 13d-5 of the United States
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended, and as in force at the date of
this Agreement), being a "Group"), other than Members of the Rogers Family
or
the Borrower or a Person or Group consisting of or controlled by one or
more
Members of the Rogers Family or the Borrower acquires, directly or indirectly,
more than 50% of the total voting power of all classes of Voting Shares
of the
Borrower; or
(b) any
transaction (including an amalgamation, merger or consolidation or the
sale of
Capital Stock of the Borrower) the result of which is that a Person or
Group,
other than
(X)
Members of the Rogers Family or the Borrower or a Person or Group consisting
of
or controlled by Members of the Rogers Family or the Borrower or
(Y)
for
so long as the only primary beneficiaries of a Qualifying Trust established
under the last will and testament of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx are one or more persons
referred to in item (b) of the definition of "Member of the Rogers Family"
or
the spouse, widow or widower, for the time being and from time to time,
of any
person described in items (b)(iii), (iv) or (v) of the definition of "Member
of
the Rogers Family", any Person designated by the trustees of such Qualifying
Trust to exercise voting rights attaching to the Capital Stock held by
such
trustees,
has
elected to the board of directors of the Borrower such number of its or
their
nominees so that such nominees so elected shall constitute a majority of
the
number of the directors comprising the board of directors of the
Borrower;
provided
that to the extent that one or more regulatory approvals are required for
any of
the transactions or circumstances described in clauses (a) or (b) above
to
become effective under Applicable Law, such transactions or circumstances
shall
be deemed to have occurred at the time such approvals have been obtained
and
become effective under Applicable Law. Notwithstanding anything
contained in this Agreement to the contrary, a "Change in Control" will
not
occur so long as either Members of the Rogers Family or the Borrower control
the
Voting Shares of, or elect directors to the board of directors of, the
Borrower
as and to the extent provided in the previous sentence.
"Members
of the Rogers Family" means:
(a) Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx (who was born on 27 May 1933, such individual being hereinafter
referred to as "Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx");
(b) such
of the following persons as are living at the date of this Agreement or
are born
after the date of this Agreement and before the Perpetuity Date:
(i) the
spouse for the time being and from time to time of Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxx;
(ii) after
the death of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, the widow, if any, of Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxx;
(a)
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(iii) the
issue of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx;
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(b)
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(iv) any
half-sister of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx and the issue of any such half-sister;
and
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(c)
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(v) individuals
adopted by Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx or any of the issue of Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxx,
provided that such individuals have not attained the age of majority
at
the date of such adoption, together with the issue of any such
adopted
individuals;
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provided
that if any person is born out of wedlock he or she shall be deemed not
to be
the issue of another person for the purposes hereof unless and until he
or she
is proven or acknowledged to be the issue of such person; and
(c) a
Qualifying Trust but only to the extent of its Family Percentage Holding
of
voting securities or rights to control or direct the voting securities
of the
Borrower at the time of the determination.
"Qualifying
Trust" means a trust (whether testamentary or inter vivos) any beneficiary
of
which is a person referred to in item (a) or (b) of the definition of "Member
of
the Rogers Family" or the spouse, widow or widower, for the time being
and from
time to time, of any person described in items (b)(iii), (iv) or (v) of
the
definition of "Member of the Rogers Family" (provided that such spouse,
widow or
widower is living at the date of this Agreement or is born after the date
of
this Agreement and before the Perpetuity Date), all such persons being
hereafter
referred to as "Qualified Persons".
"Family
Percentage Holding" means the aggregate percentage of the securities held
by a
Qualifying Trust representing, directly or indirectly, an interest in voting
securities or rights to control or direct the voting securities of the
Borrower,
that it is reasonable, under all the circumstances, to regard as being
held
beneficially for Qualified Persons (or any class consisting of two or more
Qualified Persons); provided always that in calculating the Family Percentage
Holding (A) in respect of any power of appointment or discretionary trust
capable of being exercised in favour of any of the Qualified Persons, such
trust
or power shall be deemed to have been exercised in favour of Qualified
Persons
until such trust or power has been otherwise exercised; (B) where any
beneficiary of a Qualifying Trust has assigned, transferred or conveyed,
in any
manner whatsoever, his or her beneficial interest to another person, then,
for
the purpose of determining the Family Percentage Holding in respect of
such
Qualifying Trust, the person to whom such interest has been assigned,
transferred or conveyed shall be regarded as the only person beneficially
interested in the Qualifying Trust in respect of such interest but in the
case
where the interest is so assigned, transferred or conveyed is an interest
in a
discretionary trust or is an interest which may arise as a result of the
exercise in favour of the assignor of a discretionary power of appointment
and
such discretionary trust or power of appointment is also capable of being
exercised in favour of persons described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition
of "Member of the Rogers Family", such discretionary trust or power shall
be
deemed to have been so exercised in favour of Qualified Persons until it
has in
fact been exercised; and (C) the interest of any Permitted Residuary Beneficiary
shall be ignored until its interest has indefeasibly vested.
2
"Permitted
Residuary Beneficiary" means any person who is a beneficiary of a Qualifying
Trust and, under the terms of the Qualifying Trust, is entitled to distributions
out of the capital of such Qualifying Trust only after the death of all
of the
Qualified Persons who are beneficiaries of such Qualifying Trust.
"Perpetuity
Date" means the date that is 21 years less one day from the date of the
death of
the last survivor of the individuals described in item (a) or items (b)(i),
(ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) of the definition of "Member of the Rogers Family"
who
are living at the date of this Agreement.
"Voting
Shares" means any Capital Stock having voting power under ordinary circumstances
to vote in the election of a majority of the directors of a corporation
(irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any other class or
classes
shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any
contingency).
3
SCHEDULE
F
INFORMATION
THAT MAY BE DISCLOSED
[see
reference in Section 10.20]
Deal
/ Facility Specific
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Type
Term
Out Option
Facility
Signing Date
Pricing
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SCHEDULE
G
TERMS
OF INTER-COMPANY SUBORDINATED DEBT
[see
reference in Section 1.1.57]
1. Terms
defined in the credit agreement dated 29 June 2007 between Xxxxxx Communications
Inc. (the "Company"), the lenders from time to time party thereto and The
Toronto-Dominion Bank, as Agent (the "Loan Agent") (as it may be amended,
supplemented, restated and replaced from time to time, the "Credit Agreement")
and used herein have the meanings attributed to such terms in the Credit
Agreement, unless otherwise defined herein. As used herein, the term
"Relevant Obligor" means the Borrower or Restricted Subsidiary creating,
incurring, assuming or suffering to exist any Inter-Company Subordinated
Debt.
2. The
indebtedness evidenced by this agreement shall constitute Inter-Company
Subordinated Debt and the Relevant Obligor and the relevant creditor who
is owed
such indebtedness (the "Relevant Creditor") agree that the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any), and interest on such indebtedness is
expressly subordinated, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set
forth,
in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all amounts from time
to
time owing under or in connection with the Credit Agreement and all RCI
Public
Debt (which amounts are hereinafter called "Senior Debt"). The
Relevant Obligor agrees to hold the benefit of these provisions as incorporated
in this agreement or this instrument as trustee for and on behalf of the
Loan
Agent and the Lenders and the Relevant Obligor shall be a party to the
agreement
or instrument in such capacity and shall give the Relevant Creditor (and
the
Relevant Obligor on its own behalf) one dollar as valuable consideration
in
respect of the agreements given to it in such capacity as trustee.
3. For
purposes hereof, the words "cash, property or securities" shall not be
deemed to
include securities of the Relevant Obligor or any other Person provided
for by a
plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which is subordinated,
at
least to the extent provided herein with respect to the indebtedness owing
to
the Relevant Creditor, to the payment of all Senior Debt which may at the
time
be outstanding; provided, however, that (i) all Senior Debt is assumed
by the
new Person, if any, resulting from any such reorganization or readjustment,
and
(ii) the rights of the Lenders are not, without the consent of the Lenders,
altered by such reorganization or readjustment.
4. Upon
any distribution of assets of the Relevant Obligor or upon any dissolution,
winding up, arrangement, liquidation, reorganization, bankruptcy, insolvency
or
receivership or similar proceeding relating to the Relevant Obligor or
its
property or other marshalling of assets of the Relevant Obligor:
(a) the
Lenders shall first be entitled to receive payment in full of all Senior
Debt
including, without limitation, the principal thereof and premium, if any,
and
the interest due thereon, before the Relevant Creditor is entitled to receive
any payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any
Debt
owing to it; and
(b) any
payment or distribution of assets of the Relevant Obligor of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the Relevant
Creditor would be entitled except for the provisions hereof shall be paid
by the
liquidating trustee or agent or other person making such payment or
distribution, whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver or liquidating
trustee
or otherwise, directly to the Loan Agent in respect of the Senior Debt
to the
extent necessary to pay in full all Senior Debt remaining unpaid;
and
(c) in
the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution
of
assets of the Relevant Obligor of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, shall be received by the Relevant Creditor before
all
Senior Debt is paid in full, such payment or distribution shall be held
in trust
for the benefit of and shall be paid over to the Loan Agent for application
to
the payment of all Senior Debt remaining unpaid until all Senior Debt shall
have
been paid in full after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution
to the Loan Agent or the Lenders in respect of such Senior Debt.
5. Upon
any payment or distribution of assets of the Relevant Obligor referred
to in
this agreement or instrument, the Relevant Creditor shall be entitled to
rely
(i) upon any order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction in which
any
proceedings of the nature referred to in Section 4 are pending, (ii) upon
a
certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent or other person in such
proceedings making such payment or distribution to the Relevant Creditor
or its
representative, if any, or (iii) upon a certificate of the Loan Agent or
any
representative (if any) of the Lenders for the purpose of ascertaining
the
identity of the Lenders and the Loan Agent, the holders of other Senior
Debt of
the Relevant Obligor, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount
or
amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto
or to
the subordination contemplated by this agreement or instrument.
6. Nothing
contained herein is intended to or shall impair, as between the Relevant
Obligor
and its creditors (other than the Lenders as regards the Senior Debt and
the
Relevant Creditor) the obligation of the Relevant Obligor, which is
unconditional and absolute, to pay to the Relevant Creditor the principal
of and
premium, if any, and interest on the Debt owing to the Relevant Creditor
as and
when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with its terms
or
affect the relative rights of the Relevant Creditor and creditors of the
Relevant Obligor other than the Lenders as regards the Senior Debt, nor
shall
anything herein or therein prevent the Relevant Creditor from exercising
all
remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default with respect
to the
Debt owing to the Relevant Creditor subject to the rights, if any, herein
of the
Loan Agent and/or the Lenders as regards the Senior Debt in respect of
cash,
property or securities of the Relevant Obligor received upon the exercise
of any
such remedy.
7. Upon
the maturity of any Senior Debt by lapse of time, acceleration or otherwise,
then, except as hereinafter provided, all principal of and premium, if
any, and
interest on all such matured Senior Debt shall first be paid in full or
shall
have first been duly provided for before any payment on account of principal
of
or premium, if any, or interest owing to the Relevant Creditor is
made.
2
8. Upon
the happening of an Event of Default with respect to any Senior Debt permitting
the Lenders (or any of them) to accelerate the maturity of the Senior Debt
then,
unless and until such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived
or shall
have ceased to exist, no payment (including, without limitation, by purchase
of
the Debt owing to the Relevant Creditor or otherwise) shall be made by
the
Relevant Obligor with respect to the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on the Debt owing to the Relevant Creditor. In the event
that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Relevant Obligor shall make any
payment
of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Debt owing to the
Relevant Creditor after the happening of such an Event of Default, then,
except
as hereinafter otherwise provided, unless and until such Event of Default
shall
have been cured or waived or have ceased to exist, such payment shall be
held in
trust for the benefit of and, if and when such Senior Debt shall have become
due
and payable, shall be paid over to the Loan Agent and applied to the payment
of
all Senior Debt remaining unpaid until all such Senior Debt shall have
been paid
in full.
9. The
fact that any payment to the Relevant Creditor is prohibited hereby shall
not
prevent the failure to make such payment from being an event of default
as
regards such Relevant Creditor.
10. Nothing
contained herein or in any agreement, indenture or other instrument in
respect
of the Debt owing to the Relevant Creditor shall, subject to Section
7:
(a) prevent
the Relevant Obligor at any time from making payments at any time of the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest to the Relevant Creditor
on
account of Inter-Company Subordinated Debt unless:
(i) such
payment is proposed to be made on or after the date upon which any Event
of
Default or any of the events described in Section 4 has occurred in
circumstances where notice of such proposed payment shall have been given
by the
Relevant Creditor or the Borrower to the Loan Agent prior to the happening
of
such Event of Default or other event; or
(ii) such
payment would otherwise occur while any proceedings in respect of the
dissolution, arrangement, winding up, liquidation, reorganization, bankruptcy,
insolvency or receivership of the Relevant Obligor are pending; or
(b) prevent
the Relevant Obligor from applying to the retirement of any Inter-Company
Subordinated Debt, Excluded Assets or Excluded Securities the proceeds
of a
substantially concurrent issue of other Inter-Company Subordinated Debt
or of
shares of any class of the Relevant Obligor; or
(c) except
in circumstances to which clauses (a)(i) or (ii) are applicable, require
the
Relevant Creditor to pay to the Loan Agent or the Lenders, or to repay
to the
Relevant Obligor, any amount so paid.
11. (a) No
right of the Loan Agent or any Lender as regards the Senior Debt to enforce
subordination as provided herein shall at any time in any way be prejudiced
or
impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Relevant Obligor
or by
any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such Lender or the Loan
Agent,
or by any non compliance by the Relevant Obligor with the terms, provisions
or
covenants herein, regardless of any knowledge thereof which any Lender
or the
Loan Agent may have or be otherwise charged with.
3
(b) The
rights of the Loan Agent and the Lenders with respect hereto shall not
be
affected by any extension, renewal or modification of the terms, or the
granting
of any security in respect of, any Senior Debt or any exercise or non exercise
of any right, power or remedy with respect thereto.
(c) The
Relevant Creditor agrees not to exercise any offset or counterclaim or
similar
right in respect of the Inter Company Subordinated Debt except to the extent
payment of such Inter-Company Subordinated Debt is permitted and will not
assign
or otherwise dispose of any Inter-Company Subordinated Debt unless the
assignee
or acquiror, as the case may be, agrees to be bound by the terms
hereof.
12. The
provisions contained herein
(a) may
not be amended or modified in any respect, nor may any of the terms or
provisions hereof be waived, except by an instrument signed by the Relevant
Obligor, the Relevant Creditor and the Loan Agent acting on the instructions
of
the Required Lenders,
(b) shall
be binding upon each of the parties hereto and their respective successors
and
assigns and shall enure to the benefit of the Loan Agent, each and every
Lender
and their respective successors and assigns,
(c) shall
be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province
of
Ontario.
The
Relevant Creditor and the Relevant Obligor each irrevocably agree that
any
suits, actions or proceedings arising out of or in connection with the
provisions contained herein may be brought in any court in the Province
of
Ontario and submits and attorns to the non exclusive jurisdiction of each
such
court.
13. So
long as the Senior Debt remains outstanding, the Inter-Company Subordinated
Debt
shall be and remain unsecured.
4
SCHEDULE
H
EXISTING
L/Cs
[see
reference in Section 2.2]
L/Cs
issued by The Bank of Nova Scotia (see Schedule H, Part A)
|
CDN
|
$223,891.98
|
|
US
|
$0.00
|
||
L/Cs
issued by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (see Schedule H, Part
B)
|
CDN
|
$22,328,037.57
|
|
US
|
$1,304,536.48
|
||
L/Cs
issued by Royal Bank of Canada (see Schedule H, Part C)
|
CDN
|
$791,811.50
|
|
US
|
$699,572.25
|
||
L/Cs
issued by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (see Schedule H,
Part
D)
|
CDN
|
$100,000.00
|
|
US
|
$0.00
|
||
TOTAL
OUTSTANDING LETTERS OF CREDIT
|
CDN
|
$23,443,741.05
|
|
US
|
$2,004,108.73
|
Part
A –
L/Cs issued by The Bank of Nova Scotia
Issued
on behalf of:
|
Beneficiary
|
Type
|
Issuer
Bank
|
L/C
Number
|
$
|
Amount
|
Issue
Date
|
Expiry
Date
|
Renewal
|
Automatic
|
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc.
|
City
of Port Coquitlam
|
L/C
|
BNS
|
S18572/203742
|
Cdn
|
5,000.00
|
5-Feb-2004
|
4-Feb-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc. on behalf of Rogers Wireless Partnership and/or
Fido
Solutions Inc.
|
Regie
des alcools
|
L/C
|
BNS
|
S18572/205516
|
Cdn
|
60,000.00
|
1-Mar-2004
|
1-Mar-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc.
|
City
of Ottawa
|
L/C
|
BNS
|
S18572/228343
|
Cdn
|
29,454.36
|
27-Jul-2005
|
27-Jul-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc. on behalf of Fido Inc.
|
Ministry
of Finance, Ontario
|
L/G
|
BNS
|
S18572/228912
|
Cdn
|
32,931.31
|
10-Aug-2005
|
1-Aug-2008
|
Final
Expiry
Nov
01, 2008
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc. on behalf of Fido Solutions Inc.
|
Ministry
of Finance, Ontario
|
L/G
|
BNS
|
S18572/228937
|
Cdn
|
32,931.31
|
10-Aug-2005
|
1-Aug-2008
|
Final
Expiry
Nov
01, 2008
|
YES
|
Rogers
Wireless Inc. on behalf of Rogers Wireless Partnership
|
The
Regional Municipality of York
|
L/C
|
BNS
|
S18572/235593
|
Cdn
|
10,000.00
|
9-Jan-2006
|
8-Jan-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Wireless Inc. on behalf of Rogers Wireless Partnership
|
City
of Xxxxxxxx
|
L/C
|
BNS
|
S18572/236132
|
Cdn
|
25,000.00
|
20-Jan-2006
|
19-Jan-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Wireless Inc.
|
Corporation
of the City of Mississauga
|
L/C
|
BNS
|
S18572/238510
|
Cdn
|
5,000.00
|
16-Mar-2006
|
15-Mar-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc. on behalf of Rogers Wireless Partnership and/or
Fido
Solutions Inc.
|
Ministry
of Finance, Govt of Alberta
|
L/C
|
BNS
|
S18572/250566
|
Cdn
|
10,000.00
|
1-Dec-2006
|
1-Dec-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc.
|
Regional
Municipality of Niagara
|
L/G
|
BNS
|
S18572/72415
|
Cdn
|
12,500.00
|
25-Sep-1992
|
25-Sep-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Wireless Inc.
|
Mississauga
Hydro
|
L/G
|
BNS
|
S18572/72425
|
Cdn
|
1,075.00
|
10-Sep-1992
|
10-Sep-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Total
for Xxxxxx Wireless Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
CDN
|
$
223,891.98
|
Part
B – L/Cs issued by The Toronto Dominion Bank
Issued
on behalf of:
|
Beneficiary
|
Type
|
Issuer
Bank
|
L/C
Number
|
$
|
Amount
|
Issue
Date
|
Expiry
Date
|
Renewal
|
Automatic
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc.
|
Chubb
Insurance Company of Canada
|
L/C
|
TD
|
L1020984407719
|
Cdn
|
1,000,000.00
|
7-Jul-2003
|
8-Jul-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc.
|
Royal
Trust Corporation of Canada
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/11016
|
Cdn
|
3,070,000.00
|
1-Jan-2007
|
31-Dec-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of 1720300 Ontario Inc.
|
Minister
of Finance of Ontario
|
L/C
|
TD
|
84X7C7YWN
|
Cdn
|
4,716,042.30
|
24-Jan-2007
|
23-Jan-2008
|
Final
Expiry Date
April
14, 2010
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of 1465333 Ontario Inc.
|
Minister
of Finance of Ontario
|
L/C
|
TD
|
84X7C7ZQL
|
Cdn
|
36,367.81
|
24-Jan-2007
|
23-Jan-2008
|
Final
Expiry Date
April
14, 2010
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of 1465333 Ontario Inc.
|
Minister
of Finance of Ontario
|
L/C
|
TD
|
84X7C7ZV1
|
Cdn
|
1,060,441.49
|
24-Jan-2007
|
23-Jan-2008
|
Final
Expiry Date
April
14, 2010
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of 1465333 Ontario Inc.
|
Minister
of Finance of Ontario
|
L/C
|
TD
|
84X7C7ZZF
|
Cdn
|
467,603.72
|
24-Jan-2007
|
23-Jan-2008
|
Final
Expiry Date
April
14, 2010
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc.
|
CIBC
Mellon Trust Company on behalf of the fund for the Pension
Plan for
Employees of Xxxxxx Communications Inc. (RGRF7000002)
|
L/C
|
TD
|
C357CHH6P
|
Cdn
|
5,550,778.00
|
30-Jan-2007
|
31-Dec-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
Corp.
of the City of Toronto (North York)
|
L/C
|
TD
|
L1020984407720
|
Cdn
|
20,000.00
|
12-Mar-1997
|
21-Jan-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of Rogers Network Services
|
Candarel
Corporate Centre (Ottawa) Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
L1020984407723
|
Cdn
|
8,500.00
|
15-May-1996
|
14-May-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of 1728558 Ontario Inc.
|
Mininister
of Finance for Ontario
|
L/C
|
TD
|
BIL7GNC3Y
|
Cdn
|
174,927.93
|
20-Apr-2007
|
20-Apr-2008
|
Final
Expiry Date
June
30, 2010
|
YES
|
2
Issued
on behalf of:
|
Beneficiary
|
Type
|
Issuer
Bank
|
L/C
Number
|
$
|
Amount
|
Issue
Date
|
Expiry
Date
|
Renewal
|
Automatic
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of Toronto Blue Jays Baseball
Club and
Rogers Blue Jays Baseball Partnership
|
United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
|
L/C
|
TD
|
G-093870
|
US
|
50,000.00
|
4-Jan-2001
|
12-Dec-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc.
|
CIBC
Mellon Trust Company on behalf of the fund for the Rogers Defined
Benefit
Pension Plan (RGRF5000002)
|
L/C
|
TD
|
95J7K19VK
|
CDN
|
5,696,579
|
4
Jan-2001
|
12-Dec-2001
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Equals
4 Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
41,621.8
|
14-June-2007
|
19-Jul-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Craftworks
Garment Group Co. Ltd.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
130,010
|
14-June-2007
|
16-Jul-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Intex
Development Company Limited
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
65,100
|
14-June-2007
|
15-Jul-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
WP
Appliances
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
206,744.66
|
14-June-2007
|
5-Aug-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Tiger
J. Limited
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
134,404.64
|
19-June-2007
|
31-Jul-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Olympia
Limited, Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
81,188
|
19-June-2007
|
4-Sep-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
.
Tiger J. Limited
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
58,063
|
20-June-2007
|
22-Aug-2007
|
No
|
No
|
3
Issued
on behalf of:
|
Beneficiary
|
Type
|
Issuer
Bank
|
L/C
Number
|
$
|
Amount
|
Issue
Date
|
Expiry
Date
|
Renewal
|
Automatic
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Professional
Sales and Marketing Group Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
136,688.38
|
20-June-2007
|
10-Sep-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Highel,
Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
110,565
|
20-June-2007
|
14-Aug-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Xxxxxxxx
Worldwide Marketing, Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
30,450
|
20-June-2007
|
7-Jul-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Xxxxxxxx
Worldwide Marketing, Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
46,000
|
21-June-2007
|
30-Jul-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division
of
Xxxxxx Broadcasting Limited
|
Scafati
& Co
|
L/C
|
TD
|
US
|
133,701
|
21-June-2007
|
16-Sep-2007
|
No
|
No
|
|
Total
Cdn$ L/Cs for Xxxxxx Communications Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
CDN
|
$
21,801,240.25
|
|
|
|
|
Total
US$ L/Csfor Xxxxxx Communications Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
USD
|
$
1,224,536.48
|
|
|
|
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
360networks
inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10524
|
Cdn
|
30,947.32
|
12-Sep-2001
|
12-Sep-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
Carnet
Division, CCC
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10940
|
Cdn
|
20,000.00
|
26-May-2004
|
26-May-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
City
of Ottawa
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/8130
|
Cdn
|
50,000.00
|
14-May-1991
|
14-May-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
Corporation
of the Town of Strathroy
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/9077
|
Cdn
|
20,000.00
|
6-Sep-1995
|
7-Sep-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
County
of Xxxxx
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10806
|
Cdn
|
10,000.00
|
7-Jul-2003
|
7-Jul-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Cable Inc.
|
Enersource
Hydro Mississauga
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10672
|
Cdn
|
71,000.00
|
2-Aug-2002
|
2-Aug-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
4
Issued
on behalf of:
|
Beneficiary
|
Type
|
Issuer
Bank
|
L/C
Number
|
$
|
Amount
|
Issue
Date
|
Expiry
Date
|
Renewal
|
Automatic
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
Ottawa
Hydro Limited
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10849
|
Cdn
|
24,000.00
|
12-Nov-2003
|
12-Nov-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
Regional
Municipality of Waterloo
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10047
|
Cdn
|
15,000.00
|
24-Sep-1999
|
31-Dec-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
The
Corporation of the City of Cambridge
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10275
|
Cdn
|
15,000.00
|
22-Aug-2000
|
31-Aug-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
The
Corporation of the Town of Paris, Ontario
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/8494
|
Cdn
|
2,000.00
|
17-Jan-1994
|
17-Jan-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
The
Corporation of the Town of Richmond Hill
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10465
|
Cdn
|
25,000.00
|
10-Apr-2001
|
3-Apr-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.
|
Veridian
Connections Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/10682
|
Cdn
|
30,000.00
|
21-Aug-2002
|
21-Aug-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Cable Inc. (Cable 10 - Mississauga)
|
Canada
Post Corporation
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/7203
|
Cdn
|
1,000.00
|
25-Jun-1985
|
25-Jun-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Cable Inc. on behalf of Rogers Cable Ontario Limited
|
Corp
of the Town of Ajax
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/7817
|
Cdn
|
3,850.00
|
29-Jun-1989
|
29-Jun-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc. on behalf of Rogers Cable Ontario Limited
|
Corp
of the Town of Ajax
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/7993
|
Cdn
|
62,000.00
|
9-May-1989
|
9-May-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.(on behalf of RCCI)
|
Minister
of Finance, Govt of Alberta
|
L/C
|
TD
|
DVM79AQFX
|
Cdn
|
10,000.00
|
29-Nov-2006
|
29-Nov-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc.(on behalf of RCCI)
|
Regional
Municipality of Peel
|
L/C
|
TD
|
AWA785SQG
|
Cdn
|
5,000.00
|
6-Nov-2006
|
6-Nov-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Network Services, A division of Xxxxxx Cable Inc.
|
Ontario
Hydro
|
L/C
|
TD
|
1020/8449
|
Cdn
|
5,000.00
|
10-Nov-1993
|
10-Nov-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Cable Inc. on behalf of Rogers Business Solutions, a division
of
RCCI
|
Hydro-Quebec
|
L/C
|
TD
|
L1020925439423
1020/10195
|
Cdn
|
17,000.00
|
24-May-2000
|
24-May-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Cable Inc. on behalf of Rogers Business Solutions, a division
of
RCCI
|
Algonquin
College of Applied Arts and Technology
|
L/C
|
TD
|
L1020925439425 1020/11020
|
Cdn
|
60,000.00
|
20-Jan-2005
|
20-Jan-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Cable Inc. on behalf of Rogers Cable Communications Inc.
|
The
Corporation of the Town of Aurora
|
L/C
|
TD
|
GFS7IPMIC
|
Cdn
|
50,000
|
31-May-2007
|
31-May-2008
|
No
|
No
|
5
Issued
on behalf of:
|
Beneficiary
|
Type
|
Issuer
Bank
|
L/C
Number
|
$
|
Amount
|
Issue
Date
|
Expiry
Date
|
Renewal
|
Automatic
|
Rogers
Cable Inc. on behalf of Rogers Business Solutions, a division
of
RCCI
|
Verizon
Global Solutions Inc.
|
L/C
|
TD
|
G192813
|
US
|
80,000.00
|
4-Feb-2005
|
28-Feb-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Total
Cdn$ L/Cs for Xxxxxx Cable Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
CDN
|
$
526,797.32
|
||||
Total
US$ L/Cs for Rogers Cable Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
USD
|
$ 80,000.00
|
6
Part
C – L/Cs issued by Royal Bank of Canada
Issued
on behalf of:
|
Beneficiary
|
Type
|
Issuer
Bank
|
L/C
Number
|
$
|
Amount
|
Issue
Date
|
Expiry
Date
|
Renewal
|
Automatic
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of Xxxxxx Sportsnet Inc.
|
Carnet
Canada
|
L/C
|
RBC
|
P00000343053
|
Cdn
|
500,000.00
|
9-Dec-2005
|
8-Dec-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of OMNI-TV, A division of Xxxxxx Broadcasting
Limited
|
Carnet
Canada
|
L/C
|
RBC
|
P00000343052
|
Cdn
|
190,000.00
|
9-Dec-2005
|
8-Dec-2007
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of Rogers Stadium Limited Partnership
|
City
of Toronto
|
L/C
|
RBC
|
P00000347203
|
Cdn
|
101,811.50
|
16-Mar-2006
|
15-Mar-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Total
for Xxxxxx Media Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
CDN
|
$791,811.50
|
|
|
|
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division of Xxxxxx
Broadcasting Limited
|
Scafati
& Company
|
D
L/C
|
RBC
|
361686
|
US
|
103,600.00
|
30-Jan-2007
|
20-Jun-2007
|
No
|
No
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division of Xxxxxx
Broadcasting Limited
|
XX
Xxxxxxxxxxx
|
X
X/X
|
XXX
|
000000
|
XX
|
165,880.00
|
2-Mar-2007
|
1-Jun-2007
|
No
|
No
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division of Xxxxxx
Broadcasting Limited
|
Scafati
& Company
|
D
L/C
|
RBC
|
364504
|
US
|
31,216.25
|
12-Apr-2007
|
30-Jun-2007
|
No
|
No
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division of Xxxxxx
Broadcasting Limited
|
XX
XXXXXX
|
X
X/C
|
RBC
|
365075
|
US
|
79,228.00
|
26-Apr-2007
|
9-Aug-2007
|
No
|
No
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division of Xxxxxx
Broadcasting Limited
|
Coastal
Sales Associates, Inc.
|
D
L/C
|
RBC
|
365076
|
US
|
104,220.00
|
26-Apr-2007
|
16-Aug-2007
|
No
|
No
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division of Xxxxxx
Broadcasting Limited
|
Tiger
J. Ltd
|
D
L/C
|
RBC
|
365679
|
US
|
70,681.00
|
10-May-2007
|
5-Jul-2007
|
No
|
No
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division of Xxxxxx
Broadcasting Limited
|
Coastal
Sales Associates, Inc.
|
D
L/C
|
RBC
|
365743
|
US
|
20,625.00
|
11-May-2007
|
16-Aug-2007
|
No
|
No
|
Xxxxxx
Media Inc. on behalf of The Shopping Channel, a division of Xxxxxx
Broadcasting Limited
|
Sterling,
Inc.
|
D
L/C
|
RBC
|
366190
|
US
|
124,122.00
|
23-May-2007
|
4-Aug-2007
|
No
|
No
|
Total
for Xxxxxx Media Inc. (Documentary L/C)
|
|
|
|
|
USD
|
$699,572.25
|
7
Part
D – L/Cs issued by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Issued
on behalf of:
|
Beneficiary
|
Type
|
Issuer
Bank
|
L/C
Number
|
$
|
Amount
|
Issue
Date
|
Expiry
Date
|
Renewal
|
Automatic
|
Rogers
Publishing Limited
|
Regie
des Alcools, des Courses et des jeux du Quebec
|
L/C
|
CIBC
|
T371125
|
Cdn
|
90,000.00
|
15-Mar-1996
|
3-Jan-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Rogers
Broadcasting Limited
|
Minister
of Finance and Corporate Relations (BC)
|
L/C
|
CIBC
|
T390033
|
Cdn
|
5,000.00
|
1-Apr-1998
|
4-Apr-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
The
Shopping Channel A division of Rogers Broadcasting Limited
|
The
Corporation of the City of Mississauga
|
L/C
|
CIBC
|
SBGT722437
|
Cdn
|
5,000.00
|
3-Apr-2002
|
25-May-2008
|
Annual
|
YES
|
Total
for Xxxxxx Media Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
CDN
|
$
100,000.00
|
8
SCHEDULE
I
FORM
OF GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
[see
reference in Section 2.7]
THE
TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, as loan agent under the Credit Agreement
(as
hereinafter defined) (the “Agent”)
|
FOR
VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, the undersigned (herein referred to as the
“Guarantor”) hereby unconditionally guarantees due payment
and
performance to the Agent, for and on behalf of the lenders under the Credit
Agreement, forthwith after demand, of all the Obligations of Xxxxxx
Communications Inc. (the “Borrower”) under that certain credit
agreement dated June 29, 2007, among the Borrower, the lenders named
therein and the Agent, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated,
varied or otherwise changed or replaced from time to time (the “Credit
Agreement”). Terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used
herein have the meanings attributed to such terms in the Credit
Agreement.
The
Guarantor agrees that, without obtaining the consent of or giving notice
to the
Guarantor, the Agent may discontinue, reduce or increase the Credit, or
otherwise vary the Credit Agreement, grant extensions of time or other
indulgences, take and give up securities, grant releases and discharges and
otherwise deal with the Borrower and other parties as the Agent may see fit
and
may apply all monies received from the Borrower or others or from securities
upon such part of the Borrower’s liability as the Agent may think best without
prejudice to or in any way limiting or lessening the liability of the Guarantor
under this Agreement.
This
Agreement shall be a continuing guarantee of all the Obligations and shall
apply
to any ultimate balance due or remaining unpaid to the Lenders. This
Agreement shall not be considered as wholly or partially satisfied by the
payment or liquidation at any time of any sum of money which may at any time
be
or become owing or due or remain unpaid to the Lenders.
This
Agreement shall not be discharged or otherwise affected by any change in
the
name, objects, businesses, assets, capital structure or constitution of the
Borrower or the Guarantor, or by any merger or amalgamation of the Borrower
or
the Guarantor with any Person or Persons, except as otherwise provided in
this
Agreement or in the Credit Agreement. In the case of the Borrower
being amalgamated with another corporation, this Agreement shall apply to
the
liabilities of the resulting corporation, and the term “Borrower” shall include
each such resulting corporation.
All
monies, advances, renewals and credits in fact borrowed or obtained by the
Borrower under the Credit Agreement shall be deemed to form part of the
liabilities hereby guaranteed notwithstanding any limitation of status or
of
power of the Borrower or of the directors or agents thereof or that the Borrower
may not be a legal entity or any irregularity, defect or informality in the
borrowing or obtaining of such monies, advances, renewals or
credits.
The
obligations of the Guarantor hereunder are and shall be absolute and
unconditional and any moneys or amounts expressed to be owing or payable
by the
Guarantor hereunder which may not be recoverable from the Guarantor on the
basis
of a guarantee or as surety shall be recoverable from the Guarantor as a
primary
obligor and principal debtor in respect thereof.
The
Agent
shall not be bound to exhaust its recourse against the Borrower or other
parties
before being entitled to demand payment from or performance by the Guarantor
and
enforce its rights under this Agreement.
Any
account settled or stated by or between the Agent and the Borrower in relation
to the Credit Agreement shall be accepted by the Guarantor as conclusive
evidence that the balance or amount thereby appearing due by the Borrower
to the
Agent is so due.
The
Guarantor shall make payment to the Agent of the amount of the liability
of the
Guarantor forthwith after demand therefor is made in writing during the
continuance of any Event of Default and such demand shall be conclusively
deemed
to have been effectually made when delivered in accordance with the notice
provisions set out herein and the liability of the Guarantor shall bear interest
from the date of such demand at 2% per annum in excess of the Prime Rate,
such
interest to be calculated monthly based on the number of days elapsed and
to be
deemed payable on the first Business Day of a month in respect of the
immediately preceding month or upon demand, whichever is the
earlier.
All
amounts payable by the Guarantor under this Agreement shall be paid without
set-off or counterclaim and without any deduction or withholding whatsoever
unless and to the extent that the Guarantor shall be prohibited by law from
doing so, in which case the Guarantor shall, only to the extent such a similar
requirement is imposed on the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement,
pay to
the Agent such additional amount as shall be necessary to ensure that the
Agent
receives the full amount it would have received if no such deduction or
withholding had been made.
This
Agreement is in addition to and without prejudice to any securities of any
kind
(including, without limitation, guarantees and postponement agreements whether
or not in the same form as this instrument) now or hereafter held by the
Agent.
The
Guarantor hereby represents, warrants and covenants as follows:
(a)
|
it
is a valid and subsisting [corporation/partnership] under the laws
of its
jurisdiction of organization;
|
(b)
|
the
Guarantor has the power, legal right and [corporate] authority
to enter
into this Agreement and to do all acts and things as are required
or
contemplated hereunder to be done, observed and performed by
it;
|
(c)
|
the
Guarantor has taken all necessary [corporate/partnership] action
to
authorize the creation, execution, delivery and performance of
this
Agreement; and
|
2
(d)
|
this
Agreement has been validly authorized, executed and delivered and
constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Guarantor
enforceable against it in accordance with its
terms.
|
The
Borrower may permanently terminate this Agreement, without the consent of
the
Agent, upon the earliest to occur of the following events: (a) the Guarantor
ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of the
Credit
Agreement; (b) the Credit Agreement is secured and such security is accepted
by
the Agent (unless the Borrower and the Agent agree that the Guarantee is
to
continue in addition to the security) and, to the extent the Guarantor has
secured debt, the Credit Agreement is secured equally and ratably with (or
prior
to) such secured Debt of the Guarantor; (c) the Guarantor does not, or after
giving effect to the termination of this Agreement and the discharge, release,
repayment or termination, as applicable, of any other Debt concurrently
therewith, will not, directly or indirectly, have any Debt; (d) after giving
effect to the termination of this Agreement, the Borrower would be in compliance
with clause (ii) of Section 6.5.3 of the Credit Agreement; and (e) any other
event under the Credit Agreement that would permit the Borrower to terminate
this Agreement. In order to effect the termination of this Agreement
pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent an officers’
certificate stating that the conditions specified in this paragraph have
been
satisfied.
There
are
no representations, collateral agreements or conditions with respect to this
Agreement or affecting the Guarantor’s liability other than as contained
herein.
All
notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing
and
shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified
or
registered mail or sent by telecopier to the following addresses or telecopier
numbers specified below:
To
the
Guarantor:
n
000
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx,
XX X0X 0X0
Attention:
Vice President, Treasurer
Fax
No.: 416.935.3598
With
a
copy to the Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Fax
No.: 416.935.3548
To
the
Agent:
The
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Loan
Syndications – Agency
Royal
Trust Tower
00
Xxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
XX X0X 0X0
Attention: Vice
President, Loan Syndications - Agency
Fax
No.: 000.000.0000
3
Notices
sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered
mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by
telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if
not
given on a Business Day between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. local time where
the
recipient is located, shall be deemed to have been given at 9:00 a.m. on
the
next Business Day for the recipient).
This
Agreement is made in favour of the Agent in its capacity as loan agent under
the
Credit Agreement. In the event of a new agent being appointed under
the Credit Agreement, such new agent shall thereupon become and be the agent
hereunder, but nevertheless, the Agent shall forthwith assign and transfer
over
to the new agent hereunder this Agreement. The provisions of this
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto
and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby.
This
Agreement is a contract made under, and shall for all purposes be governed
by
and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Province of Ontario and
the
laws of Canada applicable in Ontario. The Guarantor irrevocably and
unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive
jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario, and any appellate
court
from any of those courts, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating
to this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and
each
of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims
in
respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such
court.
DATED
this n day of n,
20n.
n {insert
name of Guarantor}
|
|
Per:
|
|
Name:
|
|
Title:
|
|
Per:
|
|
Name:
|
|
Title:
|
|