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Clarity of the Investment Canada Act with Regards to State Owned Enterprises

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Flanagan, Tom
Author
She, Kay
Accessioned
2016-09-29T18:31:17Z
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2013-09
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Abstract
In April 2013, the Canadian government passed amendments to the Investment Canada Act (ICA), which, for the first time, explicitly treated foreign State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) within legislation. The ICA amendments were intended to provide clarity and signal future direction of foreign SOE investment in Canada. A clear investment framework for SOEs is critical to attract the capital needed to encourage investment, economic growth and employment opportunities in Canada. Weaknesses in the clarity of the ICA will unnecessarily drive foreign SOE investment away with ramifications for Canada’s relations with those foreign countries. Much of the academic literature on foreign direct investments uses nonrestrictiveness as a measure of success to evaluate foreign investment rules. However, this paper focuses on one specific portion of foreign investment rules – SOE provisions. An evaluation of SOE provisions must first understand that the country in question has made a political decision to be restrictive to SOE investors by installing SOE provisions. Therefore, the measure of success for good legislation related to SOEs is not restrictiveness. Rather, clarity is the measure of success for good legislation related to SOEs. A comparative legislative analysis between Canada and Australia’s foreign investment rules reveals some weaknesses of the ICA amendments in providing a clear investment framework for SOEs. In order to begin addressing these issues of clarity, this paper recommends putting a percentage threshold or guidelines around the definition of SOE, striking the retroactivity provisions within the ICA, and providing reasoning as to why oil sands will only be acquired by SOEs on an “exceptional basis” only. This would help create certainty for SOE investors that the deals they strategically and deliberately craft in accordance with legislation will receive approval.
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Citation
She, Kay. (2013). Clarity of the Investment Canada Act with Regards to State Owned Enterprises ( Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
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The School of Public Policy
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Faculty of Graduate Studies
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University of Calgary
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/30040
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http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51626
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