SHAREHOLDER COMMUNICATIONS INFORMATION FORM (National Instrument 54-101) 

Based on your instructions, the securities in your account with us are held in registered form in the name of Independent Trading Group (ITG) Inc.’s clearing broker Fidelity Clearing Canada ULC, or the name of another person or entity who holds your securities on our behalf. The issuers of the securities in your account may not know the identity of the beneficial owner of these securities. We are required under securities law to obtain your instructions concerning various matters relating to your holding of securities in your account. 

Disclosure of Beneficial Ownership Information 

Securities law now permits reporting issuers and other persons and companies to send materials related to the affairs of the reporting issuer directly to beneficial owners of the reporting issuer’s securities if the beneficial owner does not object to having information about it disclosed to the reporting issuer or other persons and companies. Part 1 of the client response section contained in the account application form (“Client Response”) allows you to tell us if you OBJECT to the disclosure by us to the reporting issuer or other persons or companies of your beneficial ownership information, consisting of your name, address, electronic mail address, securities holdings and preferred language of communication. Securities legislation restricts the use of your beneficial ownership information to matters relating to the affairs of the reporting issuer. 

If you DO NOT OBJECT to the disclosure of your beneficial ownership information, please mark the first box in Part 1 of the Client Response. In those circumstances, you will not be charged with any costs associated with sending security holder materials to you. 

If you OBJECT to the disclosure of your beneficial ownership information by us, please mark the second box in Part 1 of the Client Response. If you do this, all materials to be delivered to you as a beneficial owner of securities will be delivered to you by us or on our behalf. Please note that in circumstances where you object to the disclosure of your beneficial ownership information by us, and the reporting issuer or other intermediary has not agreed to pay the mailing and/or handling costs for security holder materials, you may be required to pay a nominal charge for mailing and/or handling. Particulars of any nominal fees or charges that objecting clients may be required to pay in connection with the sending of securityholder materials will be posted on our website. 

RECEIVING SECURITYHOLDER MATERIALS 

For securities that you hold through your account, you have the right to receive proxy-related materials sent by reporting issuers to registered holders of their securities in connection with meetings of such securityholders. Among other things, this permits you to receive the necessary information to allow you to have your securities voted in accordance with your instructions at a securityholder meeting. In addition, reporting issuers may choose to send other securityholder materials to beneficial owners, although they are not obliged to do so. 

Securities law permits you to decline to receive securityholder materials. The three types of material that you may decline to receive are: 

(a) proxy-related materials, including annual reports and financial statements, that are sent in connection with a securityholder meeting; 

(b) annual reports and financial statements that are not part of proxy-related materials; and 

(c) materials that a reporting issuer or other person or company sends to securityholders that are not required by corporate or securities law to be sent to registered securityholders. 

Part 2 of the Client Response allows you to receive all materials sent to beneficial owners of securities or to decline to receive the three types of materials referred to above. 

If you want to receive ALL materials that are sent to beneficial owners of securities, please mark the first box on Part 2 of the Client Response. If you want to DECLINE to receive the three types of materials referred to above, please mark the second box in Part 2 of the Client Response. 

(Note: Even if you decline to receive the three types of materials referred to above, a reporting issuer or other person or company is entitled to deliver these materials to you, provided that the reporting issuer or other person or company pays all costs associated with the sending of these materials. These materials would be delivered to you through our intermediary if you have objected to the disclosure of your beneficial ownership information to reporting issuers.) 

PREFERRED LANGUAGE OF COMMUNICATION 

When you set up your account with us you select your preferred language of communication (English or French). Where available, securityholder materials will be sent to you in your preferred language of communication (English or French) selected by you. Should you wish to change your preferred language of communication, you may do so by contacting a Independent Direct customer service representative. Please remember that you will receive materials in your preferred language of communication if the materials are available in that language.