(1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 88, no person or company shall solicit proxies from holders of its voting securities whose latest address as shown on the books of the reporting issuer is in Ontario unless,
(a) in the case of a solicitation by or on behalf of the management of a reporting issuer, an information circular, either as an appendix to or as a separate document accompanying the notice of the meeting, is sent to each such security holder of the reporting issuer whose proxy is solicited at the security holder’s latest address as shown on the books of the reporting issuer; or
(b) in the case of any other solicitation, the person or company making the solicitation, concurrently with or prior thereto, delivers or sends an information circular to each such security holder whose proxy is solicited.