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Canadian Securities Regulators Release Three-Year Business Plan
For Immediate Release CSA
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today released its Three-Year Business Plan for the period April 1, 2013 through to March 31, 2016.
“The Plan sets out, in a clear and comprehensive manner, the priorities the CSA has committed to pursue over the next three years,” said Bill Rice, Chair of the CSA and Chair and CEO of the Alberta Securities Commission. “The Plan itself is not static and over its life will be supplemented and influenced by capital market events and regulatory responses to these events.”
The Plan is designed to reflect CSA members’ commitment towards enhancement of the Canadian regulatory framework, with particular emphasis on the implementation of investor protection initiatives. The key CSA priorities include:
- retail investor protection;
- capital raising by small and medium sized enterprises and review of available prospectus exemptions;
- shareholder democracy and protection;
- market regulation; and
- enforcement effectiveness.
While the CSA will give priority to the Plan’s initiatives over the next three years, regulators are strongly committed to ongoing initiatives and will be ready to address any new issues and challenges that might arise in Canada’s evolving capital markets.
The CSA Three-Year Business Plan is on the CSA and various members’ websites.
The CSA, the council of the securities regulators of Canada’s provinces and territories, co ordinates and harmonizes regulation for the Canadian capital markets.
For more information:
Carolyn Shaw-Rimmington
Ontario Securities Commission
416-593-2361
Mark Dickey
Alberta Securities Commission
403-297-4481
Sylvain Théberge
Autorité des marchés financiers
514-940-2176
Richard Gilhooley
British Columbia Securities Commission
604-899-6713
Ainsley Cunningham
Manitoba Securities Commission
204-945-4733
Wendy Connors-Beckett
New Brunswick Securities Commission
506 643-7745
Tanya Wiltshire
Nova Scotia Securities Commission
902-424-8586
Daniela Machuca
Financial and Consumer Affairs
Authority of Saskatchewan
306-798-4160
Janice Callbeck
PEI Securities Office
Office of the Attorney General
902-368-6288
Doug Connolly
Financial Services Regulation Division of
Newfoundland and Labrador
709-729-4189
Rhonda Horte
Office of the Yukon Superintendent
of Securities
867-667-5466
Louis Arki
Nunavut Securities Office
867-975-6587
Donn MacDougall
Northwest Territories Securities Office
867-920-8984