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Rudy Mezzetta The decision last week by the Capital Markets Authority Implementation Office (CMAIO) to “pause” its operations didn’t come as a surprise to many in the investment industry. “I am not surprised with this announcement it has been a long time coming,” said Rebecca Cowdery, a securities lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto. While a national regulator would be ideal, Cowdery said, the proposed cooperative regulator which never got buy-in from Quebec, Alberta or Manitoba was “too cumbersome” to be much of an improvement on the existing system. Last week, the CMAIO, which was established in 2015 to guide the launch of a national capital markets regulatory authority, put its operations on pause and laid off its staff. The organization said that it could resume its work in the future “when there is greater certainty around cooperative system launch timelines.” ....
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