While I agree that the SEC has an influence, I must add that in my opinion most of those
who abandoned, or limited their trading in the US markets, are due to the US economy and the prospect that it does not show enough signs of improvement.
I do not invest in anything connected with US dollar, expecting it to stay the same or
slide even further.
Carrying over to Ontario, the local economy is tied to manufacturing exports to US.
Much of same applies to Canadian mining.
Ontario government is running deficits so money is not available to provide adequate
monitoring by OSC so cash for OSC in near future or even providing needed infrastructures
in Ontario is very limited.