IGOPP in the Medias

Human beings are wonderful amnesiacs, an observation grounded in the history of traumatic events that faded gradually into oblivion. It may well be the same with the current pandemic. But more likely not. As the pandemic’s first phase comes to an end, we may experience greater control of citizens’ behaviour, including close monitoring of movements by means of instant communications and government-issued safe-conducts to gain access to any public event. Constitutionally protected freedoms may be infringed by a state/medical bureaucracy determined to protect us at all costs. Such coercive measures will be promoted, and may be accepted, as essential to avoiding a recurrence of some form of pandemic. (By Yvan Allaire and Mihaela Firsirotu.)

The hiring of Sabia, an anglophone from Ontario who previously ran BCE Inc., signalled a change in the weather, said Michel Magnan, an expert in corporate governance at Montreal’s Concordia University.

Michel Nadeau, executive director at the Institute for Governance of private and public organizations, joins BNN Bloomberg for his reaction to Bombardier exiting the A220 jet partnership and the future of the rail unit.

When Spruce Point Capital Management released a negative report on Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. in late 2019, it prompted Yvan Allaire, the executive chair of the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations, to fire back in the Financial Post

The consequences of short sellers’ actions can be dramatic. The near collapse of the financial system in 2008 owed a good deal to short-selling

I admit I didn’t understand how serious climate change was until recently, and I even joked about how Canada needs warmer weather. But with every day, the storms, fires, droughts and floods become worse.

The rebukes that we receive from critics like Yvan Allaire force us to maintain high standards in our research, which we release publicly for all market participants to judge. We anticipate such criticism and protect ourselves by ensuring that our analysis is iron-clad.

As Canada’s population ages, securities regulators across the country are eyeing rules to address “potential financial exploitation” of clients who may be vulnerable due to “diminished mental capacity.”

On Thursday, Louis Morisset, chief executive of Quebec’s the Autorité des marchés financier, and chair of the Canadian Securities Administrators, an umbrella group for all Canadian securities regulators, said the full ban “was motivated by important investor protection concerns.”

In response to my Dec. 13 column criticizing short sellers, Ben Axler of Spruce Point Capital (Dec. 17) trots out the worn-out argument that short-sellers only reveal the sordid truths hidden by corporations — that they are a sort of guardian angel of market efficiency, acting as a countervailing force to the fawning, relentlessly positive and often corrupted recommendations of sell-side analysts.