Among comparisons presented are the share of recent financing of Canadian development, There have also been important underlying the distribution of ownership and control, the ratios changes in the international ownership and control of income remitted abroad, and the proportions of of Canadian industry, partly as a result of the Canadian manufacturing in establishments con- changing sources of fi [...] In the case of automobiles for example in loans and advances by the Canadian Government most of the production is in United States controlled most of which were extended in the early post-war plants but this Is exceptional. [...] Historical Outlines of Changes Most of the great growth in the amount of foreign ular during th: half century and the pri.icipal capital invested in Canada has occurred in the sources and kinds of investment have likewise Twentieth Century. [...] During the same chiefly concentrated in the latter part of the inter- period of rapid development United States invest- war period from 1930-39 with further significant ments increased at an even more rapid pace, but at withdrawals of capital in the case of British invest- the beginning of the War they still had a value of ments during the period of the Second World War. [...] The demands of the allied governments led to large The expansion in wheat production and railway current surpluses and the direction of development building were at the core of economic development changed with inflows of capital being largely con- in the period preceding the First World War.
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