The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has announced its agenda and panelists for its forthcoming roundtable on the proxy voting system.
The roundtable, which is slated for January 29, will focus on a couple of the major themes that emerged from the comment letters received on the consultation paper published by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) last year. Specifically, the meeting will feature a panel discussion on understanding and improving vote reconciliation; and, a panel that will examine issues around designing and implementing end-to-end vote confirmation.
The roundtable “will help inform next steps on this initiative”, the OSC says.
Both panels will hear the perspectives of issuers, investors, and other industry stakeholders. The OSC says that the panellists — which includes representatives from Computershare Canada, Broadridge, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Shorecrest Group Ltd., the Canadian Society of Corporate Secretaries, CIBC, Agrium Inc., Kingsdale Shareholder Services Inc., BlackRock, and TMX Group’s CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. — have been selected based on comment letters submitted to the CSA, and to reflect a diversity of views.