(The Walrus, Toronto, 19 December 2017) Export Development Canada lends foreign buyers billions of taxpayer dollars. Critics say it's knowingly banking some of the world's worst regimes. EDC has perfected the art of lending billions of taxpayer dollars to scandal-ridden foreign buyers. In May...
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(Washington Post, Washington, 28 September 2017) The Commerce Department signaled its intent to impose a 219 percent tariff on Canadian-made jetliners, claiming aircraft maker Bombardier has been unfairly propped up by the Canadian government... But critics of the decision say Boeing itself...
more(Globe & Mail, Johannesburg, 3 August 2017) The Canadian government's export agency gave $41-million (U.S.) in financing to help Bombardier Inc. sell a luxury jet to the controversial tycoons at the heart of a South African scandal over alleged high-level corruption, leaked e-mails show....
more(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 21 September 2016) In 2015 Netsweeper Inc. of Waterloo Ontario, with support from Export Development Canada, sold Internet filtering technology to the government of Bahrain — a country criticized internationally for widespread suppression of human rights defenders...
more(Above Ground, Ottawa, 14 June 2017) Our latest correspondence with Export Development Canada (EDC) about the impacts in Colombia of two oil...
more(Business Wire, Mumbai, 2 April 2017) Export Development Canada today announced its new and first global branch outside of Canada, in Singapore. “EDC’s new branch can process transactions in real time for Indian companies, eliminating the previous 12 hour delay to connect back to our financing...
more(Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila, 24 April 2017) As offers of development funding from China and Japan pour in, Canada also wants a bigger piece of the Philippine growth story as its export credit agency Export Development Canada (EDC) seeks more opportunities to fund infrastructure projects...
more(Above Ground, Ottawa, 15 February 2017) Last year an Ontario-based company, with support from Export Development Canada, sold Internet filtering technology to the government of Bahrain — a country criticized internationally for widespread suppression of human rights defenders through...
more(Business Journal, Budapest, 12 December 2016) The Hungarian Export-Import Bank (EXIM) and export credit agency Export Development Canada (EDC) will jointly finance a project to build eight mobile power plants using General Electric (GE) technology for Indonesiaʼs state-owned electricity...
more(Macauhub, Macau, 29 September 2016) Canada’s export credit agency will finance the purchase by Angola of 100 locomotives from US group General Electric, according to an authorization granted by presidential order. The order authorizes the state to borrow US$429.5 million from the Canadian...
more(The Telegraph, London, 17 September 2016) Canada is setting up an export agency office in the UK in an attempt to boost trade links with one of its biggest trading partners after the EU referendum. In the latest indication of the desire of non-EU countries to do more business with the UK,...
more(Compressor Tech News, Waukesha, WI, 26 August 2016) GE has started constructing its multimodal manufacturing facility in Welland, Ontario, Canada. The facility, a US$165 million investment in its first phase, will manufacture GE Power’s reciprocating gas engines, as well as components for...
more(Above Ground, Ottawa, 11 January 2016) Thomas L. Friedman's "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century" suggests that a level playing field has emerged in the world of global commerce, affording competitors equal opportunity. But this analysis ignores government intrusion...
more(Bloomberg, Ottawa, 4 November 2015) Tata Group, the Indian owner of assets including Jaguar Land Rover and the Tetley Tea brand, will receive as much as $500 million a year in financing from Canada’s government-owned export development bank. EDC will underwrite loans to the Tata Sons...
more(Creamer Media, Johannesburg, 29 October 2015) Canada’s official trade finance agency, Export Development Canada (EDC), has formally established permanent offices in Johannesburg, from where it aims to facilitate $10-billion-worth of business between sub-Saharan African and Canadian companies...
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