The US continues to dominate foreign investment in Canada, controlling 53.0% of foreign-held assets, followed by the UK (11.1%) and Japan (8.0%). In total, entities from 93 countries held stakes in Canadian corporations, though eight nations accounted for 87.4% of foreign-controlled assets.<\/p>\n
Regionally, enterprises from the Americas held 54.6% of foreign assets in Canada, with Europe and Asia trailing at 27.7% and 16.0%, respectively. Growth patterns diverged: American-controlled firms advanced 3.9%, European slower at 3.3%, while Asian-controlled firms posted an 11.2% gain, marking their strongest year since 2016.<\/p>\n
Sector by sector, foreign influence is most pronounced in wholesale trade (48.6%), manufacturing (44.4%), oil and gas extraction (33.0%), and mining and quarrying (31.9%). Within finance, non-depository credit intermediation had the highest foreign stake at 44.0%.<\/p>\n
From 2014 to 2023, U.S. control within Canada held steady, especially in goods, manufacturing, and financial sectors, with varying degrees across industries. In manufacturing, U.S.-controlled assets climbed from $237.4 billion to $333.8 billion. Wholesale saw US-linked assets nearly double, reaching $195.7 billion and representing 59% of that industry\u2019s foreign assets.<\/p>\n
In the financial domain, depository credit intermediation rose from $55.7 billion in 2014 to $99.5 billion in 2023, while other investment and securities businesses increased from $73.5 billion to $139.4 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US continues to dominate foreign investment in Canada, controlling 53.0% of foreign-held assets, followed by the UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,94017,94018,22783,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-187284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-assets","11":"tag-corporate-canada","12":"tag-foreign-investors","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}