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With a TV ad aired during the 2025 Super Bowl on February 9, digital brokerage Questrade has announced it will offer commission-free stock and exchange-traded fund (ETF) trades henceforward. That brings to three the number of 0% commission investment brokers available to Canadians, along with Wealthsimple Trade and National Bank Direct Brokerage.

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The change to 0% commision trades is in response to investors’ wants. Praneil Ladwa, Questrade’s journey leader, Grow my Wealth, explains the move in terms of customer expectations. 

“We’ve been getting customer feedback. We’ve been looking at what customers are asking for,” he says. “We took deliberate steps to introduce zero commissions when the time was right”—that is, without taking away features or capabilities that clients had come to expect.

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