The research team behind the federal Wise Persons’ Committee will be presenting their findings in a conference at the end of the month.

The conference is being hosted by the University of Toronto’s Capital Markets Institute (CMI) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on January 30.

The WPC engaged the CMI to direct its’ research program. Doug Harris, director of the CMI, joined the staff of the WPC on a part-time basis to carry out this function.

The CMI is bringing together the researchers who prepared some of the key studies to present their findings and comment on the WPC’s recommendations.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Ralph Simmonds and Ray da Silva Rosa, The Impact of Federalising Securities Regulation in Australia: A View from the Periphery;
  • Poonam Puri, Local and Regional Interests in the Debate on Optimal Securities Regulatory Structure;
  • Douglas Cumming, Aditya Kaul and Vikas Mehrotra, Provincial Preferences in Private Equity and Fragmentation and the Canadian Stock Markets;
  • Mary Condon, The Use of Public Interest Enforcement Orders by Securities Regulators in Canada; and
  • Margaret Sanderson and Mark Neumann (Charles River Assoc.), Securities Enforcement in Canada: The Effect of Multiple Regulators.

The conference will conclude with a panel discussion featuring authors of the constitutional opinions published with the WPC’s report.

On Dec. 17, 2003, the WPC released its report calling for the creation of a single regulator built on a joint federal-provincial model. The research studies commissioned by the committee were published along with the report, and are available at www.wise-averties.ca.