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Tories rile auto firms with call for mandatory fuel efficiency

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Bob Mills, the Conservatives' environment critic from the Tory government, stated that the party would push Canada's auto industry and the provinces, which enforce many of Canada's environmental regulations, to cut national fuel consumption 25% by 2010. That would be done by requiring automakers to produce more efficient cars, a goal that the industry prefers to achieve voluntarily.

Motor vehicles and car bodies, Government domestic functions, Automobile industry, Environmental policy, Energy efficiency, Conservative Party of Canada

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Chinese bid prompts MPs to eye revising investment act

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The Investment Canada Act was updated in light of the pending takeover of mining giant Noranda Inc. by a state-owned Chinese company, China Minmetals Corp. The two companies had exclusive negotiations regarding a proposal from Minmetals to acquire 100 per cent of Noranda.

China, Acquisitions & mergers, PRIMARY METAL INDUSTRIES, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Company acquisition/merger, Acquisitions and mergers, Metal industries, Noranda Inc., Metal industry, Amendments (Parliamentary practice)

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MPs mull not signing bank report

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Liberal MPs may not back a new report on bank mergers.

Bank mergers, Legislators

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