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Canadian securities regulation is managed through the laws and agencies established by Canada's 10 provincial and 3 territorial governments. Each province and territory has a securities commission or equivalent authority with its own provincial or territorial legislation.
Canadian securities regulation is unique in that the field is solely regulated by provincial and territorial governments. While those governments have worked to harmonize many of their policies, there is still enough variation that securities issuers must reconcile in order to have their securities trade among residents in each of the jurisdictions involved.
In 2010, a draft Canadian Securities Act was published, [4] on which a reference question was posed to the Supreme Court of Canada on its constitutionality. In Reference re Securities Act, the Court ruled that the proposed Act overreached genuine national concerns, and thus intruded too far into the provincial power over property and civil rights.
The OSC administers the Ontario Securities Act and the Commodity Futures Act and with about 500 employees, [4] is the largest securities regulator in Canada and has the Toronto Stock Exchange within its jurisdiction.
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA; French: Autorités canadiennes en valeurs mobilières, ACVM) is an umbrella organization of Canada's provincial and territorial securities regulators whose objective is to improve, coordinate, and harmonize regulation of the Canadian capital markets.
The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) is the securities commission responsible for administering and enforcing securities legislation in the Canadian province of Alberta. [ 1 ] The Alberta Securities Act RSA 2000 , a revision of the original Act that came into effect on January 1, 2002, is the statute that establishes Alberta's securities ...
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The Keeping the Promise for a Strong Economy Act (Budget Measures), 2002, also known as Bill 198, was an Ontario legislative bill effective April 7, 2003, [1] which provides for regulation of securities issued in the province of Ontario. The legislation encompasses many areas.