First Asset Opportunity Fund - s. 1(10)

Decision

Headnote

Mutual Reliance Review System for Exemptive Relief Applications -- issuer deemed to have ceased to be a reporting issuer.

Applicable Ontario Statutory Provisions

Securities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.5, as am., s. 1(10).

March 12, 2008

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Box 25, Commerce Court West
199 Bay Street, Suite 2800
Toronto, Ontario
M5L 1A9

Attention: David Palumbo

Dear Sirs / Mesdames:

Re:
First Asset Opportunity Fund (the "Applicant") -- Application to cease to be a reporting issuer under the securities legislation of Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador (the "Jurisdictions")

The Applicant has applied to the local securities regulatory authority or regulator (the "Decision Maker") in each of the Jurisdictions for a decision under the securities legislation (the "Legislation") of the Jurisdictions that the Applicant be deemed to have ceased to be a reporting issuer in the Jurisdictions.

As the Applicant has represented to the Decision Maker that,

1. the outstanding securities of the Applicant, including debt securities, are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by less than 15 security holders in each of the jurisdictions in Canada and less than 51 security holders in total in Canada;

2. no securities of the Applicant are traded on a marketplace as defined in National Instrument 21-101 -- Marketplace Operation;

3. the Applicant is applying for relief to cease to be a reporting issuer in all of the jurisdictions in Canada in which it is currently a reporting issuer; and

4. the Applicant is not in default of any obligations under the Legislation as a reporting issuer,

each of the Decision Makers is satisfied that the test contained in the Legislation that provides the Decision Maker with the jurisdiction to make the decision has been met and orders that the Applicant is deemed to have ceased to be a reporting issuer.

"Vera Nunes"
Assistant Manager, Investment Funds Branch
Ontario Securities Commission