Trump Ignored It: Canada Owns $1.3 Trillion of America, From Chicago's Toll Road to Seattle's Power

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Every toll paid on the Chicago Skyway goes to three Canadian pension funds — CPP Investments, OMERS and Ontario Teachers' — who bought the concession for $2.8 billion in 2015 and hold it until the year 2104. Puget Sound Energy, Washington State's oldest utility, serving over a million electricity customers around Seattle, is roughly 90% owned by four Canadian pension funds. A slice of Oncor — the largest transmission company in Texas — belongs to Ontario's municipal workers. TD is one of America's largest banks by branches; Brookfield is one of Manhattan's biggest landlords; two Canadian railways run to the Gulf of Mexico. Statistics Canada puts the total stock of Canadian direct investment in the United States at C$1.29 trillion — nearly twice the C$684 billion Americans hold in Canada, and larger every single quarter since 2015. In this video: the Maple Eight pension giants, the toll roads and power grids they own, the trillion-dollar ledger that inverts the "Canada depends on Americ

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