A Toronto-based construction firm, Aecon is involved in a number of so-called “critical infrastructure” sectors: transportation, energy, telecommunications, that sort of thing. So the government was surely right to refer the takeover for national security review earlier this year, and right again, having been advised against it, to nix it. On national security grounds, that is. The same risk had sections of the business community bleating that the Aecon deal be allowed to proceed, legitimate security concerns or no. National security is the proverbial deal-breaker.

Source: National Post May 26, 2018 00:20 UTC