Posted Thursday 15th January 2009 20:46 GMT
Canada has no "Chapter 11"
"The company said yesterday that its US and Canadian businesses were seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection."
Not to put too fine a point on it, but "Chapter 11" is purely an instrument of the USA. Canadian bankruptcy applies quite a different process. Having never been bankrupt in either of those sovereign nations I can't clearly describe those differences. But I do know they are different.