Category: Foreign Investment

Take a Stand Against the TMX “Merger”

  I find it difficult to understand why the Liberals, among many others, let the likes of Jack Mintz,, The National Post, and the other far-right wing sell-outs, get away with their persistent misleading propaganda about how Canadian Direct Investment Abroad is so much greater than foreign direct investment in Canada. I doubt that there [...]

Friday February 11th, 2011 in Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Liberal Party of Canada, Right-Wing Think Tanks | 8 Comments »

RIP Keith Davey

  I’ve asked Jillian to attached Diane Francis’s January 15 Financial Post column about foreign investment. Remarkable, to say the least.  Francis for decades has been on the other side.  This about face is most unexpected but appreciated nonetheless. I never thought I’d suggest people read a Diane Francis column. Maybe I’m getting old. Maybe [...]

Wednesday January 19th, 2011 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, US Politics | Comments Off

EU Free Trade? / Decline of Big Oil / Dismal Social Spending

  Don Martin, in the National Post, writes “there’s a very high possibility that Canada would have dissolved in the 1970s or at least faced very serious disruption had Trudeau not been prime minister.” Surprising comment from a surprising source.  “After his death, polls christened Mr. Trudeau the best prime minister in history, with a [...]

Monday December 20th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Free Trade, Oil, Poverty, Social Spending | Comments Off

A Serious Error of Omission

  Most Canadians are unaware that Investment Canada only screens foreign takeovers of companies valued at $250 million or more.  As my previous posting on the number of takeovers pointed out, the figure of 1,600 takeovers in the last quarter century, used by both Eric Reguly and Barry McKenna in their articles in the Globe, [...]

Tuesday December 7th, 2010 in Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Right-Wing Think Tanks | Comments Off

Foreign “Investment” Deception

A letter in the Globe put it very well: “Being “open for business” without conditions is the badge of the banana republic.” Bravo!!!!! *     *     *     *     * The anti-Canadian deceivers (you know who they are) always refer to “foreign investment” but never to foreign ownership or foreign control. They either don’t understand the real [...]

Friday November 12th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Lobbyists, Right-Wing Think Tanks, US Politics, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Health Care, Our Branch-Plant Economy, Permanent War and More…

  With the addition of Gwyn Morgan, the Globe has another right-wing columnist.  His latest about health care made me look twice to make sure it wasn’t written by a Tea Party member.  What the paper needs, instead, is more thoughtful and knowledgeable writers like Lawrence Martin. *     *    *     *     * If you know [...]

Tuesday September 14th, 2010 in Foreign Investment, Health Care, Military Spending, Productivity, US Politics | 2 Comments »

Some Facts on the State of Canada, Canada Day 2010.

  Here is how it works, as I’ve explained before:  (1) We sell an important Canadian company (try Stelco for example) to non-Canadians. (2) They make a bunch of big promises about how they will expand employment, increase investment and production in this country. (3) Instead, soon after, they begin to shut everything down (so [...]

Thursday July 1st, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Corporations, Foreign Aid, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, OECD Comparisons, Social Spending, The Economy | 1 Comment »

Who is the Canadian International Council? / Canada’s Shameful Income Disparity

  While we have a great many fine journalists in this country, we unfortunately have a great many pure duds as well. Take the matter of the much trumpeted Open Canada report by the so-called Canadian International Council.   No one seems to have noticed the obvious – that these  guys are the same people [...]

Sunday June 13th, 2010 in Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Income Disparity, Integration, Lobbyists, Media, Right-Wing Think Tanks | 1 Comment »

O Canada – All is not well.

  If you have access to HBO, there is an excellent drama that they  have recently shown twice and will be certain to show again soon. It is set in Russia, a mystery-drama based on true events, called CitizenX, one of the best dramas I have seen on TV. Warning, it concerns a serial killer [...]

Sunday May 16th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Oil, The Economy | Comments Off

Obama’s Nuclear Backpeddling/More Harper Embarrassment

  Alas, it turns out that Obama’s recent moves re nuclear weapons were more modest than many of us had at first believed. For a very good analysis, go to consortiumnews.com and see the article by ex CIA official Melvin A. Goodman.  It’s very well done and definitely worth reading. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/042010c.html *     *     *     *     [...]

Sunday April 25th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Nuclear Weapons, Oil, Poverty, US Politics | 1 Comment »