About Employee Ownership Canada

Our client, Employee Ownership Canada, is the national advocate for broad-based employee ownership. Known since the 1990s as ESOP Association Canada and now EOC following a 2023 merger, it is the central hub for employee ownership in Canada, representing a growing community of employee-owned businesses, service providers, and supporters. EOC exists to grow awareness, adoption, and support for ownership models that keep businesses locally rooted, preserve jobs, and share wealth more broadly with workers and communities.

Canada is in the middle of a major business succession wave, and recent legislative progress, including permanent tax treatment for Employee Ownership Trusts, has created real momentum for employee ownership. With that foundation now in place, EOC is ready to move from holding the ground to building for the long term: growing its membership, raising the national profile of the model, and putti...