Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin prepares to chair the Senate national security and defence committee in Ottawa on Feb. 25, 2013.Chris Wattie/Reuters
Senator Pamela Wallin's use of a Toronto address in corporate filings is not necessarily evidence that she was flouting Senate rules that say her primary residence must be in the province she represents.
Ms. Wallin declared her residence as Toronto in some filings when she was a board member at Gluskin Sheff & Associates. She resigned from Gluskin Sheff recently and many stories on her departure have noted the residence issue as it relates to the Senate rules.
Under Ontario securities law, companies declare "name, province or state, and country of residence of each director" in various filings. But there is no requirement that it be a primary residence, according to Ontario Securities Commission guidelines.
So under securities law, Ms. Wallin could pick any residence as the one to highlight in securities filings.
(Boyd Erman is a Globe and Mail Reporter & Streetwise Columnist.)
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