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Interview: OSC CEO Grant Vingoe on Crypto in Canada, Part II
Description
Grant Vingoe is the CEO of the Ontario Securities Commission, Canada's largest securities regulator.
Grant explains Canada's approach to crypto and why he sees a careful, incremental approach as a strength.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:55 From 30 years in New York to running the OSC
5:49 How the CSA and Canada's provincial regulators fit together
9:01 The crypto contract
12:34 Grant's first exposure to crypto
16:09 The gamification of financial markets and prediction markets
21:22 Making crypto safer for Canadians, from ETFs onward
26:30 Stablecoins
29:52 The Stablecoin Act and federal regulators
35:02 The $30,000 purchase limit
38:18 How industry can better engage regulators
45:02 Canada's brain drain question
50:34 Modernizing the regulation of public companies
54:17 Permissionless finance
1:01:13 Accredited investor rules
Thank you to our other sponsors:
McCarthy Tétrault LLP, with which I am co-hosting a Crypto in Canada event on August 12, 2026 in Toronto: https://luma.com/89qnrnah
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP: https://www.osler.com/en/expertise/services/digital-assets-and-blockchain/
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP: https://www.cahill.com/practices/litigation-digital-assets-and-emerging-technology
Solana Policy Institute: https://www.solanapolicyinstitute.org/
Hyperliquid Policy Center: https://hyperliquidpolicy.org/
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