January 20, 2022 CSA

Toronto – The securities regulatory authorities in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec and Saskatchewan (the participating jurisdictions) today published the underlying data (xlsx - 26 KB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on January 17, 2022 used to prepare the seventh year review of women on boards and in executive officer positions (pdf - 724 KB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on November 4, 2021Review of Disclosure Regarding Women on Boards and in Executive Officer Positions..

This was the seventh annual review of disclosure related to women on boards and in executive officer positions conducted by the participating jurisdictions.

The data was compiled from public documents filed on SEDAR and includes the name, industry and year-end of the 599 non-venture issuers who were included in the review sample. These issuers had year-ends between December 31, 2020 and March 31, 2021, and filed information circulars or annual information forms by July 31, 2021.

Participating jurisdictions previously published the underlying data for issuers included in the past six annual reviews, set out in:

• CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 58-307 (pdf - 232 KB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on September 28, 2020Women on Boards and in Executive Officer Positions (2015)
• CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 58-308 (pdf - 232 KB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on September 25, 2020"CSA, Multilateral, Staff, Notice, 58-308, Review, Women, Boards, Executive, Officer, Positions, Compliance, Regulation, 58-101, Disclosure, Corporate, Governance, Practices" (2016)
• CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 58-309 (pdf - 360 KB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on October 5, 2017"CSA, Multilateral Staff Notice, 58-309, Staff Review, Women on Boards, in Executive Officer Positions, Compliance, Regulation, 58-101, Disclosure, Corporate Governance Practices" (2017)
• CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 58-310 (pdf - 816 KB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on September 27, 2018Women on boards (2018)
• CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 58-311 (pdf - 581 KB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on October 2, 2019Women on Boards and in Executive Officer Positions (2019)
• CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 58-312 (pdf - 1 MB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on March 10, 2021Report on Sixth Staff Review of Disclosure Regarding Women on Boards and in (2020)

Data for additional issuers that were not included in past review samples has also been published (xlsx - 95 KB)This link will open in a new windowUpdated on January 17, 2022 today:

• For the balance of 2020, the 104 non-venture issuers that either (i) had year ends between December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2020 and filed information circulars or annual information forms after November 30, 2020, or (ii) had year ends between April 1, 2020 and December 30, 2020.

The data is available on CSA member websites This link will open in a new window.

The CSA, the council of the securities regulators of Canada’s provinces and territories, co-ordinates and harmonizes regulation for the Canadian capital markets.

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Canadian Securities Administrators
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Ontario Securities Commission
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