The federal government will not be forcing Chinese state-investors to sell their substantial amounts of shares three of Canada’s largest mining companies, says Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Reuters reports.
Wilkinson made the comments during an interview with the news agency on March 7 at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto.
The minister said during the interview that retrospectively addressing foreign investments would have a negative impact.
“If you start looking backwards at investments, it will create all kinds of uncertainty about whether an investment is ever really an investment,”he said.
The Epoch Times contacted Natural Resources Canada for confirmation of Wilkinson’s comments, but did not hear back by press time….