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To: Q. who wrote (23499)	7/16/1999 5:21:00 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26163

Actually, Canada doesn't have any system at all - securities regs are a provincial/territorial affair, so we have twelve of them. A ridiculous setup - your federal SEC, for all its wellknown warts, is far superior imho. The Can SCs are coordinating their regs and co-operating with each other more now than they used to, though. Here are the three most important - bcse.gov.bc.ca osc.gov.on.ca cvmq.com Ontario has its regs online but BC doesn't ... don't know about Québec. There is a North American Securities Regulators Association - nasaa.org Here's one of its several pages that deal with cross-border issues - nasaa.org Complete list of Canadian SCs - nasaa.org US SCs - nasaa.org México - nasaa.org For research into Canadian companies and their principals, Canada Stockwatch can't be beat - stockwatch.com ... their database goes back a long ways, and is searchable in all the useful ways, like 'All Roles For [person]' - #reply-8078998 That BCSC order was beyond the usual, they don't always prohibit the ex-registered rep from becoming an officer or IR rep of a company. And yes, as the VSE has cleaned itself up a lot of the dubious paper machine stuff has moved to the otc-bb where they don't have to report. That's one thing about Canadian exchanges - they all require reporting on sedar, our equivalent [but not nearly as useful, for instance not searchable by keyword] of your edgar - sedar.com That's exchange policy, though, not SC policy. The SCs imho are pretty useless, reactive only and far too late after the fact. One way they could improve would be to set up a usable online database covering, among other things, insider trading posted within say five minutes of the trade, and a comprehensive searchable list of all disciplined parties cross-referenced to any companies with which those parties have been or are involved. ¡double zero!