[activeStick]

I'm sorry you have to go through this. It's not fun or fair to have to deal with not receiving a pay cheque because of no fault of your own. I don't know the details around your questions and hopefully a lawyer in this realm chimes in with accurate info, but I have experience this before as an employee when I worked for Nortel and they went bankrupt. The good news is I received payment from the courts eventually. The bad news is, it took a lot of time (my last year working there was 2007, I think) and I received my last payment 2 years ago, 2020. I also am not sure if your situation and mine are the same, similar or completely different, but I thought I'd at least give you my experience in a situation where the company I worked for went bankrupt.

Edit to add: I didn't have to initiate anything on my own throughout the process. I was contacted by the firm handling it (E&Y) and then they would correspond with me throughout those years. Now that I'm typing this response out, I feel like I remember my case being different because I had moved addresses many times during those years and they had to "track me down" and finally found me to be able to issue me all my payments (I moved cities and provinces a few times). So, that might be why my payments were still happening so late?