RE:MarginsI have participated in Fidelity's 'Fully Paid Lending Program' for years. There are 2 ways that Fidelity can loan your shares to shorts -
1) You fill out the paper work and agree to lend your shares to Fidelity. Fidelity then loans the shares to shorts and shares the interest with you.
2) You have a margin account and have a margin debit. A margin debit results from using margin to buy shares. Due to the margin debit you no longer own 100% of the shares held in your account and those shares are available to Fidelity to loan to shorts and you will not recieve any interest. Fidelity can do this without notification to you because they own a portion of the shares due to your margin debit.
There are only a few shares shorted.
NVO as of Oct 15, 2017 - 243,785
NSRPF as of Sept 29. 2017 - 271,677
https://infoventure.tsx.com/TSXVenture/TSXVentureHttpController?GetPage=SecuritySummary&SECURITY_ID=229441&MARKET_ID=CDNX&SEC_SYM_SID=1&HC_FLAG1=on
https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/NSRPF/short-sales
I own NSRPF shares and have not loaned them out.