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Opinion: How employee ownership can help secure Canadian sovereignty

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In 2024 , about 400 companies in the U.K. were sold to their workers using a structure called an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) Instead of being sold to outside investors or closed, those companies remain domestically owned, keeping jobs in communities and flowing future profits to workers.

Michael Ras , Jon Shell and Michael Ras : We need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians .

They say Canada ’s tax and trust laws have made these kinds of transactions difficult.

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71

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semi-formal

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English

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52

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