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1. Trump’s TikTok move sends clear warning to Canadian companies

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 12, 2020 Last week, President Trump signed an executive order banning U.S. transactions with ByteDance, the parent company of the popular online video-sharing service TikTok, ostensibly because TikTok’s U.S. operating ...

2. Foreign investment in Canada—nothing to celebrate

   Canada’s share of inward FDI to the OECD in 2018 was 1.6 percentage points below its average annual share for 2012-2014. ...

3. Canadian Foreign Direct Investment: Recent Patterns and Interpretation

   Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a prominent feature of globalization. It occurs when an investor resident in one country acquires management control of an enterprise located in another country. FDI inflows improve the efficiency of the host ...

4. The Flight of Capital From Canada

   A host of economic measures indicate that Canada continues to underperform when it comes to business investment, which is crucial for improving living standards and generating prosperity, according to recent research published by the Fraser Institute, an ...

5. Foreign investors say Canada has a competitiveness problem

   Appeared in the National Post, September 7, 2018 Recently, many business managers and economists have publically expressed concern about a deteriorating environment for corporate investment in Canada. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has rejected ...

6. Tax rulings make U.S. less attractive for Canadian companies

   A recent ruling by the U.S. Treasury Department scuttled a proposed and very large merger between two drug companies—the U.S.-based Pfizer Corporation and the Dublin-based Allergan. The proposed merger was motivated in part by expected ...

7. Hillary and Trump target U.S. outward direct investment (could hurt Canada)

   As leading candidates for their party’s presidential nominations become more stridently populist in their campaign rhetoric, U.S. outward direct investment has become a focus of pre-election campaigning. For example, the most likely ...

8. An Economic Assessment of the Investment Canada Act

   Foreign acquisitions of Canadian companies above a certain size are subject to review under the Investment Canada Act. For non-cultural businesses, would-be foreign acquirers must demonstrate that their acquisitions will result in net benefits to Canada ...