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Guest column: Employee ownership 'essential idea' to help secure Canadian sovereignty

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In 2024 , about 400 companies in the United Kingdom were sold to their workers using an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) That represented about eight per cent of all private company sales in the UK last year .

Canada faces the risk of a significant sell-off of privately owned companies to Americans .

Friesens is one of the few Canadian employee-owned companies.

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