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OSC Strategic Plan

The OSC’s Strategic Plan sets out how the OSC will approach its work over the next six years (2024-2030) to achieve the best outcomes for Ontario investors and capital markets participants. It outlines six strategic goals essential to achieving our vision of working together to make Ontario’s capital markets inviting, thriving and secure. Our strategic direction emphasizes cooperation and partnership to achieve regulatory excellence, promote market innovation, and enhance investor confidence, building upon the OSC's ongoing modernization efforts.

Vision: Working together to make Ontario’s capital markets inviting, thriving and secure.

Mandate: To provide protection to investors from unfair, improper or fraudulent practices, to foster fair, efficient and competitive capital markets and confidence in the capital markets, to foster capital formation, and to contribute to the stability of the financial system and the reduction of systemic risk.

Read the OSC Strategic Plan 2024-2030
OSC Strategic Goals 2024-2030
Goal 1

Quickly deliver effective regulatory actions in anticipation of emerging trends

Our efforts in this area will be guided toward the following outcomes:​

  1. Emerging trends in capital markets are regularly identified and analyzed
  2. Timely decisions are made on appropriate regulatory responses to new developments in the market
  3. Regulatory certainty fosters prudent innovation in Ontario
  4. Investor losses related to underappreciated risks involving new trends are minimized
Goal 2

Enhance the experience of individual investors

Our efforts in this area will be guided toward the following outcomes:​

  1. Investors are positioned to make better life-cycle investment decisions
  2. A robust investor redress system is in place
  3. Investors and advisors have a better understanding of financial and securities markets
  4. Regulatory and structural barriers to efficient investing are minimized
  5. Investor harm is reduced
Goal 3

Dynamically right-size regulation informed by changing needs, risks and practices in Ontario and globally

Our efforts in this area will be guided toward the following outcomes:​

  1. The Ontario market is more attractive to diverse groups of businesses and investors
  2. Regulatory actions are effectively assessed for appropriateness and effectiveness
  3. Undue burden for market participants is reduced
  4. The OSC plays a leading international role influencing the global regulatory agenda and outcomes to align with the needs of Ontario’s capital markets
  5. The OSC responds more effectively to international and cross-border developments that impact the capital markets
  6. Regulatory responsibilities are optimally allocated between the OSC and other regulators, including CIRO
Goal 4

Implement a tougher and more visible response to capital markets misconduct

Our efforts in this area will be guided toward the following outcomes:​

  1. Serious financial crimes are prosecuted vigorously
  2. The number of impactful administrative proceedings is increased
  3. The OSC’s reputation as an effective enforcer is enhanced, including on novel or sophisticated files
  4. Improved regulatory compliance and deterrence of misconduct in both private and public markets
  5. The OSC’s collection rate is increased
Goal 5

Foster conditions for capital formation and innovation in both public and private markets

Our efforts in this area will be guided toward the following outcomes:​

  1. Businesses in Ontario are enabled to raise more capital to meet their needs for growth
  2. The business environment in Ontario is even more attractive for firms and investors
  3. Financing availability is improved at all stages of business growth across the private and public markets
  4. Investment opportunities are expanded for a wide range of investors
  5. A strong finance ecosystem is developed for select growth business sectors (e.g. green industry)
  6. Confidence in the Canadian market ecosystem is a global competitive advantage
Goal 6

Strengthen OSC’s position as a trusted and influential voice in Canadian capital market

Our efforts in this area will be guided toward the following outcomes:​

  1. The OSC is viewed as an authoritative source of information on risks and best practices in capital markets
  2. The OSC influences opinions, behaviours, and policies within its regulatory purview and across the financial regulatory spectrum
  3. Increased compliance through enhanced awareness of OSC rules and other regulatory requirements
  4. Investors, advisors, and market participants demonstrate knowledge and understanding of risks and opportunities in capital markets