Use relevant duty, reporting and operating evidence with accurate examples of decisions. Distinguish collaboration from real authority.
Reconcile titles and responsibilities
A chart can provide context but should match actual work. Avoid attributing the entire team’s production to one person while claiming only management.
Payroll registers and employment agreements, the current organisational chart, the premises lease and photographs, signed customer contracts and invoices, bank statements, tax filings, and internal reports showing decisions made during the year. The signed joint-venture or operating agreement with its governance provisions, the U.S. entity's formation documents and ownership register, board or manager appointments, and bank-account signing authority. Before anything else, the petition file needs the share purchase agreement, the updated share register or stock ledger showing the Canadian company as owner, and evidence that the U.S. plant is trading: payroll records, customer invoices, a lease or deed. A role that has lost subordinates may have gained responsibility for an essential function, a budget, a supplier programme or a production line, and that is a different claim supported by different documents: approval limits, budget ownership, contracts signed, decisions recorded.