If Canada ever wants to allow entertainment and sports prediction market trading, the country’s securities regulators are signalling someone else should have to police it.
The Canadian Securities Administrators says prediction market contracts based on sports and entertainment events should not be regulated within securities and derivatives legislation.
Prediction markets currently let customers make wagers of $1 or less on the outcome of real-world events like what will happen at the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate announcement or how many major Atlantic hurricanes there will be this year.
Wealthsimple and Interactive Brokers are the only Canadian platforms approved to offer prediction market trading, which is limited in Canada to economic, financial or climate matters.
In tandem with the Canadian Securities Administrators’ announcement, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization says it does not consider it appropriate to facilitate or approve applications by its dealer members to trade sports and entertainment contracts.
Together, they say the regulatory status of non-entertainment and sports event contracts are still being assessed.
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Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 27, 2026.
