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Government butters up foreign reporters to beef up investment
The Conservative government is flying reporters to Canada and beefing up its presence on the international trade-show circuit, but Trade Minister Stockwell Day wants more bucks to stimulate flagging foreign investment.
Day is pushing his cabinet colleagues for a larger chunk of the $50 million the government sets aside annually in the budget under the Global [...]
Investing in Canada to get easier
The Conservative government plans to drop the barriers to foreign investment under $1 billion, a move critics say could lead to the hollowing out of Canadian business under increased foreign ownership.
The provision in the government’s budget bill makes good on an election promise by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to relax the rules on foreign investment, [...]
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