More works needs to be done before investors can celebrate the creation of a single regulator
The country’s fragile recovery extends into 2014
Stephen Gordon explains
There’s no good reason to believe a single regulator is better than two, or three, or ten
Why the Court’s adherence to a 19th-century precedent is too rigid and cautious
Paul Wells on why Maurice Duplessis’s old saw about the Supreme Court being like the Tower of Pisa no longer applies
The court doesn’t doubt that valid reasons for national securities regulation exist. But that’s not the point.
Flaherty could lose key ally in constitutional battle with provinces
The maverick backbencher manages the neat trick of stating his opposition to the government’s plans for a national securities regulator, while preemptively blaming the Quebec government if such a thing is allowed to proceed by the Supreme Court.
ANDREW COYNE on the Speech from the Throne
Oh, that national securities regulator? Seems it depends which “nation” you’re talking about. La Presse reports (via Norm Spector):
Must-reads: Jeffrey Simpson on Michael Ignatieff.