In the course of a non-committal response as to whether there is an acquisition of control of a public company when its shareholders exchange most of their shares for shares of a Newco, CRA responded:
[S.] 256(6.1) … is the legislative response to … Parthenon Investments … . Briefly, one of the purposes of subsection 256(6.1) is to take into account, for the purpose of the application of the law, the simultaneous control of a corporation at different levels.