Canadian goods and services can be sold in the international market either through crossborder exports or through foreign affiliates. Cross-border exports involve Canadian companies producing the goods and services in Canada and exporting them to the foreign markets. Sales through foreign...

The paper's main objective is to provide a concise synthesis of a wide array of data and research on multinationals originating in Statistics Canada, focusing on both historical and current studies. Chapter 2 discusses the macroeconomic contribution of foreign multinationals, focusing on two...

This paper examines two potential benefits of foreign-controlled plants in the Canadian manufacturing sector: the superior performance of foreign-controlled plants and their productivity spillovers to domestic plants. The paper finds that foreign-controlled plants are more productive, more...