President-Donald Trump and Conrad Black are well acquainted with each other. As a faithful friend, Donald Trump attended the contentious and pivotal 2003 Hollinger shareholders’ meeting at the Metropolitan Club in New York and spoke in support of Conrad Black, while shareholders angrily challenged Hollinger’s underperformance and criticized Black’s related party transactions.

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The Globe and Mail, Report on Business, published this opinion piece by Garfield Emerson on February 10, 2016. It advocates that shareholders need the right to vote “against” the election of directors in uncontested elections, and to be granted meaningful “proxy access” to nominate individuals for election as directors.

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‘Majority voting policies” and “say on pay” non-binding votes are ineffective means for shareholders to express and voice their concerns on board decisions on executive compensation. To exert their relevant influence as owners, shareholders need the right to vote “Against” the election of directors, not simply to “Withhold” a vote, and to be granted more practical “proxy access” to nominate individuals for election as directors’.

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The social science theory of ‘broken windows’ is generally associated with an analysis of criminology and underlying contextual circumstances that influence criminal and disorderly behaviour.

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President Obama made his pitch for ‘middle-class economics’ in his January 20th State of the Union speech. Delivered before the Republican controlled Congress, his political message was addressed to the nation at large, with an eye to future historians of his presidency. President Obama declared that the shadow of the ‘Great Recession’ has been overpowered by the sunlight of economic recovery and heralded a bright future for the United States.

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