You have to get AST to either issue a certificate for the plan shares (or portion thereof) or preferably issue you a DRS (Direct Registry Share) statement. You can accomplish this on the AST website through the investor sign in or by snail mailing a letter in to AST requesting a certificate or DRS shares ensure you reference your AST account number etc. in your letter. Once you receive the DRS statement or share certificate you can then take that to your discount broker to deposit to your account. Avoid ScotiaItrade and Questrade as they will charge you to deposit the DRS shares/certificate into your account. RBC Direct Investing, National Bank Direct Brokerage, CIBC Investor's Edge do not have any fees to deposit your certificate/DRS shares. As for the other discount brokerages (BMO, TD, HSBC,Qtrade etc.) I don't know so check their websites/ask questions to clarify. Perhaps your shares are already certificated or in DRS if this is the case ignore my first sentence.