Canada -XBRL Annual Conference 2009

The XBRL Canada Annual Conference was held on November 5, 2009 in Toronto, Canada. The presenters included Paul Cherry, Chair of the IASB Standards Advisory Council, who spoke about the IASB and Convergence, David Blaszkowsky of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) who explained The Roll-out of Interactive Data Reporting for US-listed Public Companies, and Andrew Lowe of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) who discussed XBRL and the CSA. The conference provided regulatory filers and potential filers with an up-to-date status report and concrete help in getting organized for the adoption of IFRS and XBRL. (The presentations are available at the XBRL Canada website.)