The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario is recruiting new members for its Stakeholder Advisory Committees ahead of one-year terms beginning fall 2026, including a newly consolidated Property and Casualty Insurance committee that merges what were previously separate Auto Insurance and non-auto P&C committees.
FSRA is also recruiting for its Life and Health Insurance, Mortgage Brokering, Credit Unions, Financial Advisors/Financial Planners, and Pensions committees. Applications are due October 5.
"As FSRA continues to grow as a principles-based regulator, we welcome new perspectives to help strengthen our work and better protect consumers," said Dexter John, FSRA's CEO. Eligible applicants must hold senior positions within their organizations or professions and demonstrate a commitment to serving the public interest above personal or professional interests.
The consolidation of the Auto Insurance and non-auto P&C committees into a single body follows directly from FSRA's establishment of a dedicated Property & Casualty division in January, which the regulator said was designed to enhance sector focus, coordination and accountability across market conduct and, eventually, prudential regulation of Ontario-incorporated insurers.
Jordan Solway, previously FSRA's executive vice president of legal and enforcement, was named acting EVP of the new P&C division at the time.
Folding the two advisory committees together now mirrors that same structural logic on the stakeholder-engagement side: a single P&C committee giving input across both auto and non-auto lines aligns advisory input with how FSRA has reorganized its own internal oversight, rather than maintaining separate consultation channels that no longer match the regulator's internal structure.
FSRA also shortened all upcoming committee terms from two years to one. That's a meaningful operational shift for a principles-based regulator that leans heavily on these committees for sector expertise: shorter terms mean more frequent turnover and a wider rotation of industry voices, but also less continuity for members working through multi-year regulatory initiatives, and more administrative overhead for FSRA in running recruitment cycles annually rather than biennially.
Combined with the P&C committee's newly consolidated scope, covering both a sector as broad-based as auto and other property and casualty lines, the shorter term suggests FSRA wants faster iteration and fresher perspectives on this committee specifically, even if it comes at some cost to institutional memory across renewal cycles.
Dexter John, who became FSRA's CEO in March 2025 after a career in corporate governance and shareholder advisory work rather than insurance regulation specifically, has continued to lean on these advisory structures as a channel for industry input under his leadership.
For P&C insurers and brokers in Ontario, this consolidated committee will be the primary venue for raising sector concerns directly with the regulator that now oversees market conduct across the entire P&C book, auto and non-auto alike, under one internal division.
Senior industry professionals interested in shaping that dialogue, particularly those with cross-line experience spanning both auto and general P&C, have a genuine opportunity here that didn't exist in the same combined form before this year.
