What is next for FDI (Foreign Direct Investment)— Canada — Domestic and Abroad

Paul Young
4 min readApr 29, 2024

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Source — Stats Canada

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  1. Caribbean countries have seen considerable FDI from Canada — Barbados, Bahamas, and Cayman have been used by financial services sector as part of managing their assets — https://www.statista.com/statistics/462892/canada-direct-investments-abroad-by-country/
  2. Canada has lost over $220B since 2016 — https://financialpost.com/opinion/canada-lost-225-billion-foreign-investment-since-2016 . Canada NR resources sector plays a key role in terms of the economy. NR has been struggling for years under excessive regulation and taxes — What is next for Canada Natural Resources Sector — April 2024 — https://medium.com/@paulyoung_81567/what-is-next-for-canada-natural-resources-sector-april-2024-d6bdbe66394f
  3. Liberals focus has primarily on clean technology like EV, Green Hydrogen, energy storage, and agriculture. The problem is that Liberals have failed to address productivity and innovation gaps. The latest policy on capital gains will have a detrimental impact on the flow of capital. New Capital Gains and Secondary Property — https://medium.com/@paulyoung_81567/new-capital-gains-and-secondary-property-4c3f9ead8ded
  4. GDP growth has been slow. Growth has been led by the public sector and real estate. Trudeau policies did little to address goods-producing sector competitiveness — Blog — Productivity — Data and AI — Microsoft Canada — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-young-055632b_ai-could-boost-cdn-business-productivity-activity-7189523660712341504-WXvs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
  5. Capital is very fluid as such all levels of government need to work together on economic policies that will drive FDI, capital investment, R&D, improve productivity, and address the skills gap — https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-corporate-tax-and-business-competitiveness-canada-june-2019

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