"Again a few numbers...and something else...
The Canadians don't like companies with a billion or more pieces of paper - DIO will be advised / required to do a reconstruction of at least 1 for 10 - always a losing proposition."
That's not necessarily so. Cf Admiralty Resources. Their American shares represent a consolidation of 40:1, but when ADY listed in the US it wasn't required to do a corresponding consolidation of its Australian shares.