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In a WhatsApp group named Build Canada, some of the country’s most prominent technology leaders, including Shopify executives Tobi Lütke, Daniel Debow and Kaz Nejatian, as well as investor John Ruffolo, are developing a vision for where they think the country should go next.
Brookfield would invest billions of Canadian pension funds’ dollars in housing, physical and digital infrastructure, renewable energy and privatized public assets, it told fund managers in pitch materials obtained by The Logic. The $50-billion Maple Fund, as Brookfield calls it, would be the “largest-ever private pool of capital dedicated to investing in the Canadian economy,” reads one document, dated August...
News that investment giant Brookfield is in talks with Canadian pensions to create a $50-billion government-backed fund drew fierce criticism on Wednesday from the opposition in Ottawa. Reactions were more mixed from supporters of the broad goal of putting trillions of dollars of Canadians’ pensions savings to work within Canada. While some voiced enthusiastic support, others were skeptical that Brookfield’s...
Toronto-based investment giant Brookfield is in discussions to raise a new $50-billion fund, and is seeking backing from some of Canada’s largest pension funds and the federal government, The Logic has learned.
Former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz said he will not push the country’s pensions to rethink their mandates, as he leads Ottawa’s effort to entice more investment in Canada. “We want to find some practical, actionable ideas that can be done without too much process,” he said in an interview with The Logic Thursday, on the sidelines of Ivey...
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday made a renewed case for the Liberal government’s changes to a key tax provision, after meeting with several prominent tech leaders amid backlash to the measure.