paper issued by 'qualifying' firms

qualifying issuer

non-offering prospectus

non-offering prospectus [ propspectus without distribution ]

Multiple Issuer Near Term Securities

issuer of subordinated indebtedness

In order to remove this barrier to the smooth functioning of the Union post-trading market and to allow issuers to opt for the most efficient way of managing their securities, issuers should have the right to choose any CSD established in the Union for recording their securities and receiving any relevant CSD services.

(i) defining accounting principles and auditing standards acceptable to the Commission, (ii) financial reporting requirements for the preparation and dissemination of future-oriented financial information and pro forma financial statements, (iii) standards of independence and other qualifications for auditors, (iv) requirements respecting a change in auditors by a reporting issuer or a registrant, (v) requirements respecting a change in the financial year of an issuer or in an issuer's status as a reporting issuer under this Act, and (vi) defining auditing standards for attesting to and reporting on a reporting issuer's internal controls ...[+++];

For surveillance of market activities on days like today, securities commissions in Ontario and Quebec have people looking after major swings in important issuers' prices of shares.

Both Paul Martin and I tried very hard to get the Canadian banks into that level of the second run, to be a major part of those Canadian issues.