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Recent decisions of the Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia securities commissions on applications to set aside shareholder rights plans or "poison pills" adopted in response to a hostile take-over bid have called into question whether Canadian securities regulators now hold a consistent view as to when it will be appropriate for a commission to intervene to remove a shareholder rights plan as an obstacle to individual shareholders deciding for themselves whether to tender their shares to the bid
