摘要：]apanese direct investment in Canada has grown at unprecedented rates over the last few years. By 31 March 1990, ]apanese direct investment in Canada had surpassed $4.5 billion, doubling the level set only three years earlier (Ministry for International Trade and Industry 1990). Moreover, since the mid-1980s the traditional concentration of direct investment in the resource sector has given way to a much broader portfolio of activities involving investments in automobile assembly, auto parts production, technology, computers, and pharmaceuticals (Mark 1990). One of the most significant developments believed to be affecting opportunities for ]apanese companies is the Canada-US. Free Trade Agreement (FTA). By the end of the 1980s, the FTA was perceived as not only facilitating the transborder fIow of ]apanese goods but also providing an opportunity for Canada to attract even greater shares of ]apan's foreign direct investment (Fon-see, for example, Hampson (1988: 9) and remarks by Lambert (1989).
