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Mike Nelson here.
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"The government's concern and discomfort for some time is that, very quickly, a series of large-scale controlling transactions by foreign state-owned companies could rapidly transform this industry from one that is essentially a free-market industry to one that is effectively under the control of a foreign government. And that is obviously not something that we think would be desirable," Harper said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/12/07/cnooc-nexen-takeover.html

There's been a lot of anti-Chinese racism brewing on social media about this in Canada.

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getfiscal posted:

"The government's concern and discomfort for some time is that, very quickly, a series of large-scale controlling transactions by foreign state-owned companies could rapidly transform this industry from one that is essentially a free-market industry to one that is effectively under the control of a foreign government. And that is obviously not something that we think would be desirable," Harper said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/12/07/cnooc-nexen-takeover.htmlThere's been a lot of anti-Chinese racism brewing on social media about this in Canada.



do it

global peoples war now

also implying the chinese government buying things isn't free market

#3
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the chinese are buying up australia's most productive farmland and both major parties have absolutely no problem with that lol
#4
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its really fucked up how arabs/the japanese/the chinese/??? totally bought all of the things, which makes them important and strong.
#5
Poronto
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they're still going to build the gateway pipeline though
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penitent
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what does the Mayor of Canada think of all this
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penitent
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hellooooooooooo! i am the fat Mayor of Canada! *pirouettes* the nasty chinese need to stop giving us money for our sand goo! *twirls moustache* canada for the canadans what is this i can't even
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foreign ownership of extractive resources always seems to work out really well for the host country — just look at history
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fuck buying farmland.
let's buy the shit out of some derivatives and mortgage backed securities