In December 2017, Ontario instituted a civil cause of action for employees who experience reprisals from their employers for providing information or assisting in certain other ways in regulatory or criminal investigations or proceedings involving contraventions of securities or commodity futures laws (whistleblowing). The identical amendments to s. 121.5 of Ontario’s Securities Act and s. 54.1 of the Commodity Futures Act are wide in scope and protect “whistleblowers” as follows: The new civil cause of…