The prolonged, outstanding solution to incorporation by advisors with Investment Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) now Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) is a good reminder of the impacts of Canada’s fragmented market and regulatory systems. It is also an opportunity to look ahead in our encouragement of entrepreneurialism, healthy competition, transparency in rule making and the resulting harmonized regulation.

See CFFiM’s most recent recommendations to CIRO and to the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) here and here, respectively.