“Special” Treatment: State-Owned Enterprises Under Canada’s Foreign Investment and Competition Laws

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Sandy Walker, Mar 26, 2014

Canada, like the United Kingdom and the United States, has witnessed a sharp decline in state ownership in the past few decades. However, investment by foreign state investors in Canada in recent years-in effect a foreign “nationalization”-has represented an interesting and significant deviation from this trend, particularly in the natural resources sector. Such investment has not gone unnoti