The government has been criticized for failin
g to appreciate the potential chilling effect of significantly changing our foreign investment rules several times in the past ye
ar as it was making controversial decisions. The government has actually denied that there has been a decline in merger and ac
quisition activity, although we saw that in the first quarter of this year, as we saw reported this week in the Globe and Mail. or they
...[+++]'re saying that it's due to global economic conditions.On a critiqué le gouvernement pour ne pas avoir saisi l'éventuel effet paralysant de plusieurs modifications de nos règles concernant l'investissement étranger, ces dernières années, alors qu'il prenait ces décisions controversées.