Announcement
24 Mar 2021
In March 2021, the government of Canada issued updated guidelines on foreign investment screening on national security grounds.
Source
Number of interventions
1
1 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
0 liberalising
Implementation date
24 Mar 2021
Revocation date:
No revocation date
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