Commentary
Ottawa is working overtime to attract foreign investment while Canadian investors put billions of dollars into foreign securities. If Canada cannot give its homegrown investors good reasons to put their money to work here, why should it expect foreign investors to do so?
In 2025, Canadian investors bought $133.8 billion of foreign securities, the most since 2021, with most of that investment going into U.S. corporate securities. Foreign investors, meanwhile, bought $116.4 billion of Canadian securities. That does not mean investment is fleeing Canada. Foreign direct investment remained strong, with more money flowing into Canadian businesses from abroad than Canadian businesses invested overseas….