With more than $1 trillion locked in underperforming assets, Crown ownership is a hugely important issue for public policy debate There has long been a public policy battle over government’s role in running enterprises. Strangely, that battle was not settled in the 1980s and ’90s when many state-owned firms were ‘privatized,’ since Canadian governments still
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Baird Announces Initiatives to Enhance Prosperity Across Americas
on June 5th, 2014

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today announced Canadian support for five projects that will increase economic opportunity, improve security, strengthen institutions and foster lasting relationships throughout the hemisphere. Canadian federal departments, agencies and Crown corporations are engaged in more than 550 activities annually in the region in support of the Strategy for Engagement in the