To: russwinter who wrote (11209 ) 5/20/2003 4:13:38 PM From: marcos Respond to There is plenty of regulatory protection in the g.w.n. ... 43-101 and all that, it's stiff and it's good ... plenty of exchange standards as well - the bay street bozos have not slackened listing standards, it's just their money-grubbing in things like hiding that excellent market depth of the cdnx ... fantastically stupid though that was, it does not reflect on quality of companies listed yet .... should it matter all that much that US houses fail to treat canuck issues as competently as they do the 'domestic' ones - i don't think so ..... if it's any consolation, canuck houses are not that great on either side of the line, lol .... i think it's purely a matter of supply and demand - new money has not yet entered the sector in sufficient quantity to sop up the demand for it as project financing .... not a nationalistic thing at all, rather an industry thing .... it's possible there is an overall pervasive xenophobia growing in the US during this time of neocon rule, maybe that's a factor, sure .... but not to great extent imho, folks are not that stupid at core .... basically it is a matter of the supply of new equity overtaking the demand for the paper, imho, and at some point that will change .... 365 didn't change it, maybe 375 will .... lol, the better answer is 'i dunno' .... but it's not a thing of nations - i mean how can the economics of a play be improved merely by moving its listing south of a line? ... doesn't make sense .... cheers
