Daniel Foch

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1,195 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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The Canadian Investor · Real Estate M&A, Sticky Inflation, and Canada’s $25B Gamble · 2 May 2026 podcast

But the reality is, even it has an independent board and CEO, it's not truly independent.

Because at the end of the day, the shareholder is the federal government.

And if they have a project that is dear to their heart, even though the corporation...

does not necessarily see it as the best project, they'll essentially get a directive from the federal government to make it work.

So there's definitely going to be some...

some incentive at times coming from politicians.

That's something to keep in mind.

And especially if this fund goes beyond the current liberal government.

So whether the conservative come into power, then, you know, people are quick to jump at the liberals, but you always have to think beyond the current term, right?

What could happen?

And the conservatives could have much different priorities and keep this fund open and some of the investments and then make some new one.

But then you,

You also get into the issue in terms of returns, especially because there is a retail component to it, which they did not provide a whole lot of detail.

But a lot of these investments will be illiquid.

It could take years until we know the actual returns they provided.

The government could take some losses.

They could make some massive gains, too.

They could be taking outsized risks here because they're prioritizing certain sectors that are important in their view to the Canadian economy.

It also could

prioritize certain sectors at the detriment of others we've seen the liberals do that in their 10 years or so where they prioritize green renewable energy at the detriment of other sector like traditional energy or conventional energy so there are all these questions that come into mind of course the risk of corruption mismanagement inefficiencies misappropriation these are all risks that could happen when you have something that's politically driven and of course

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