Ottawa to seek top court ruling on single securities regulator

Unlike the US, Canada doesn’t have a national securities regulator. Canadian constitution is somewhat equivocal in its division of powers between provinces and Ottawa. It sounds like a good idea for the federal government to refer its plans to the Supreme Court before spending money and influencing securities markets. Especially, since one province is not happy about these plans at all.

Les Whittington writes for the Toronto Star:

[Flaherty] has been supported by the province of Ontario and many other provinces. But the province of Quebec is against a single regulator, which it considers an infringement on its political autonomy under the constitution.