ironyman thanks; Before #WallStreetBets? There Was #SaveCanadianMining? Who Saved Canadian Small Cap 263 views•Feb 2, 2021
AGORACOM IR 3.29K subscribers On October 1st, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) issued a press release in which they stated:
"As outlined in joint whistleblower guidance published today, the OSC and IIROC have reason to believe that certain market participants may be engaged in abusive short selling practices."
and then announced this MASSIVE BOUNTY on predatory short sellers:
"Those who provide information to the OSC Whistleblower Program may be eligible for awards of up to $5 million for tips that lead to an OSC enforcement action."
What effect has this had on the smallcap markets?
Let's look at the TSX Venture Index
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On behalf of all small cap issuers, investors and service providers, we're grateful to the OSC and IIROC for stepping up and putting their foot down.
However, none of this would have happened if it were not for the efforts of "Save Canadian Mining", the lobbyist/advocacy group founded by Terry Lynch and backed by industry giants such as Eric Sprott, Sean Roosen, Keith Neumeyer and Rob McEwen and 3,000 + small cap investors who wrote the cheques necessary to hire the experts and analysts to help SCM make their case.
As such, if your Canadian small cap stock or stocks have appreciated nicely over the past 2 1/2 months without being hit by predatory short seller attacks, we should all be thanking SCM for their relentless and tireless work.
To this end, we were happy to interview Terry Lynch to find out if this 8 year nightmare is over and what final steps they are hoping to achieve with the Ontario Provincial Government, OSC, IIROC and CSA over the next 90 days to finally put an end to this.
ironyman thanks; Update on Save Canadian Mining - Terry Lynch, Founder of SCM (Feb 2021 VID Conference) 1,418 views•Feb 22, 2021
FTMINVEST 1.57K subscribers Terry Lynch, founder of the Save Canadian Mining movement, provides an update on the initiative at the February 2021 Virtual Investor Day (VID) Conference. The big news Terry shares is that recommendations from a major task force from the Ontario Securities Commission involve two significant changes: (a) Make it illegal to cover short sales in private placements, and (b) Impose and enforce new trade settlement rules to get rid of the 10-day grace period on failure to deliver - switch this to Trade Date + 2 + 4 day grace period with a hard buy-in requirement.
Save Canadian Mining Responds to Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) Consultation Paper on Activist Short Selling March 9, 2021 (Toronto) –
Today Save Canadian Mining is issuing a statement on the recently concluded consultation that the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) conducted on activist short selling and its potential impact on Canadian capital markets (CSA Consultation Paper 25-403 – Activist Short Selling).
“We are pleased to leverage the CSA’s recent consultation on activist short selling to draw wider attention to existing regulatory loopholes that have enabled predatory short selling to proliferate at the expense of junior issuers for many years,” said Terry Lynch, Founder and Executive Director of Save Canadian Mining. SCM’s formal response to the consultation was submitted last week.
SCM was launched in 2019 to advocate for the need of governments to exercise greater oversight in Canada’s capital market structure to protect the country’s junior mining industry. Since its launch, SCM has attracted support from the Ontario Mining Association, the Ontario Prospectors Association, and over 3,000 investors and junior mining companies from across Canada.
Recently SCM took part in the Ontario-based consultations headed up by the Ministry of Finance and its appointed Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce. SCM has publicly commended the task force on their final report and the report’s inclusion of recommendations that address predatory short selling.
“We are encouraged to see regulators becoming more interested in addressing structural problems in our capital markets as they relate to the enablement of unfair predatory short selling practices,” said Lynch. “Our submission to the CSA reflects our belief that, at minimum, regulators need reinstate the Tick Test – a 147-year-old regulation that was removed by IIROC in 2012 – and should move to eliminate the practice of “naked short selling” in Canada.”
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