January 28, 2020
I am a shareholder in several companies and have been proud to use that process to help these companies improve their practices to make them more ethical and sustainable. This should be a right for all shareholders, not just the wealthiest. This proposed rule change would make that process much more difficult if not impossible for investors like myself. I feel like this change is discriminatory to small investors, and I cant see any need for it other than to discriminate. It will also make it more difficult for me to use an agent to represent me in this process, which I have done in the past. I am proud that I have been able to use my resources in this way, and believe we all should have a voice, no matter what the size of our shareholdings. Please remove this rule.