Summary
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) recently published its
Statement of Priorities for 2017-2018, which is intended to
identify priority areas on which the OSC will focus during the
current fiscal year (April 1 – March 31). In that context,
the Statement of Priorities may offer stakeholders some insight
into areas – new and continuing from past years – of
particular current interest to the OSC. This year’s Statement
of Priorities confirms that the OSC is continuing to pursue a
number of initiatives that have to date received mixed reaction
from various market participants.
Priorities for 2017-2018
The specific priorities for 2017-2018 are influenced by a number
of broader issues identified by the OSC as impacting capital
markets, including changing investor demographics, the growing
importance of investor education given the increasingly complex and
diverse investment product mix, increasing globalization of capital
markets and the effect of recent
