Notice of Settlement Hearing

NOTICE is hereby given that a hearing will be held before a hearing panel of the Central Regional Council (“Hearing Panel”) of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (“MFDA”) in the hearing room at the offices of the MFDA, 121 King Street West, Suite 1000, Toronto, Ontario on February 27, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern), or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, to consider whether, pursuant to section 24.4 of By-law No. 1 of the MFDA, the Hearing Panel should accept the settlement agreement (“Settlement Agreement”) entered into between Staff of the MFDA and Stephen Christopher Gilbert Cragg (the “Respondent”).

The subject matter of the proposed Settlement Agreement concerns matters for which the Respondent may be disciplined as an Approved Person of the MFDA, pursuant to ss. 20 and 24.1.1 of By-law No. 1 of the MFDA.

PARTICULARS

1. The proposed Settlement Agreement concerns allegations that the Respondent:
   1. commencing no later than August 23, 2005, engaged in personal financial dealings with client LW that gave rise to a conflict or potential conflict of interest with the client which the Respondent failed to disclose to the Member or otherwise address by the exercise of responsible business judgment influenced only by the best interests of the client, contrary to the Member’s policies and procedures and MFDA Rules 1.4, 2.5.1, 1.1.2 and 2.1.1;
   2. in November 2017, made false and misleading statements to the Member during the course of an investigation by the Member into his conduct, contrary to MFDA Rule 2.1.1; and
   3. in November 2017, in response to a supervisory inquiry, submitted a document to the Member relating to his personal financial dealings with a client, upon which the Respondent signed the client’s signature, contrary to MFDA Rule 2.1.1.
2. MFDA settlement hearings are typically held in the absence of the public pursuant to section 20.5 of MFDA By-law No. 1 and Rule 15.2(2) of the MFDA Rules of Procedure.