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Federal Election 2025: Our Analysis
We Won (Barry Campbell) What Happened? In the years leading up to the current Federal election, there has been increasing concern about covert foreign election interference from China or Russia. As it turns out, the most malign influence on Canada’s 2025 election was overt and from our erstwhile ally to the south! In the lead…
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A New Liberal Leader. A Perilous Time. The Federal Election to Come.
With a new Liberal Leader in place and Parliament on the verge of resuming, a Federal election will soon be upon us. In that contest Liberals will want Canadians to forget the past ( “Liberal sins” Conservative call it) and focus on the challenges of these ” dark times”. Conservatives will want to make Canadians…
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(US) Buyers Beware: Canada’s New Economic Security Screen Will Keep out Predatory Acquisitions
While the USMCA or CUSMA (as Canadians prefer to call it) remains in force (or for however long it remains in force), acquisitions of Canadian assets by American entities are exempt from the requirement to pre-notify Investment Canada about the transaction. Over the last decade, Canada has moved to bolster its power to review and…
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“Country Risk” For Investors: It’s Not Canada. It’s the United States.
In this upside down and volatile world investors now inhabit, it is the United States which astonishingly is starting to fail most benchmarks in country risk and political risk assessments. These assessments are normally applied to investments from the so-called “developed” world into the “less developed world” to determine whether an investment requires a risk…
