Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian indices.

Bank of Nova Scotia has closed a prospectus offering of common shares. As a result, the relative weight of Bank of Nova Scotia will increase in the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Capped Financials, the S&P/TSX 60, Equity 60 and 60 Capped, the S&P/TSX MegaCap, the S&P/TSX Equity Income, and the S&P/TSX Composite Dividend indices, to reflect this share issuance. There will be no weight changes effective in the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats, the S&P/TSX 60 130/30 Strategy, the S&P/TSX Equal Weight Diversified Banks, the S&P/TSX 60 Equal Weight or the S&P/TSX Composite Equal Weight indices. These changes will be effective after close on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.

Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.