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The Government of Canada proposes amendments to the Investment Canada Act relating to state-owned enterprises

  • Blaney McMurtry LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 16 2013

As previously reported, on December 7, 2012, the Government of Canada (the “Government”) approved the proposed acquisition of Progress Energy

Bennet Jones Spring 2013 economic outlook

  • Bennett Jones LLP
  • -
  • Canada, Global
  • -
  • May 14 2013

This Economic Outlook has a somewhat different structure from previous issues. The first section covers recent dynamics and short-term outlook for

Canada creates further uncertainty for investments by State-Owned Enterprises

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 7 2013

On April 29, 2013, the Government of Canada tabled its budget implementation bill, the Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, which includes proposed

CNOOCNexen and the future of SOE acquisitions

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 8 2012

Canada's Prime Minister sent a clear message today that the country remains open to foreign investment, including investment on a significant scale by state-owned enterprises in certain circumstances

Federal government announces targeted changes to the Investment Canada Act

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 1 2012

On April 26, 2012 the Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, introduced the budget implementation legislation, Bill C-38the Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Actwhich provides for significant amendments to federal legislation in line with the objectives set out in the government’s 2012 Budget Plan

The constitutionality of large fines for regulatory contraventions

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 8 2012

Over the past two decades, a growing number of Canadian regulatory bodies have been granted new powers to impose administrative monetary penalties, or AMPs, for contraventions of their respective regulatory regimes

The Investment Canada Act Canada’s waking giant?

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 9 2010

On November 3, 2010, the Canadian Minister of Industry (the Minister) surprised many industry experts and legal advisors when he announced that the BHP Billiton (BHP) bid to acquire Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (Potash) failed to satisfy the “net benefit to Canada” test pursuant to the Investment Canada Act (ICA

Canada to liberalize telecom sector foreign ownership restrictions

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 4 2010

In June 2008, the blue-ribbon Competition Policy Review Panel appointed by the federal government issued its report, Compete to Win, on how to raise Canada's standard of living through greater competition and productivity

Cabinet overturns CRTC’s Globalive decision

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 5 2010

On December 11, 2009, the Government of Canada announced that it had varied the decision of the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission (the "CRTC") regarding the ownership and control of Globalive Wireless Management Corp

State-owned buyers of Canadian businesses

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 28 2009

Pursuant to amendments made to the Investment Canada Act (the "Act") by Bill C-10, in force in March 2009, the pre-existing low $5 million threshold for Industry Canada review of foreign investments in the uranium sector has been substantially increased

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