It looks like they've been quite the global football.

By 1995, the company was owned by Norwegian conglomerate Orkla. That year, Orkla sold a 50% stake in Helly Hansen to Resource Group International, which merged with Aker in 1996.

In 1997, Investcorp bought Aker's stake and most of Orkla's stake, resulting in its 70% ownership of Helly Hansen, which was valued at $160 million at the time.

In October 2006, Investcorp sold its shares in Helly Hansen to Altor Equity Partners, a private equity firm.

In 2012, Altor sold a 75% stake in Helly Hansen to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

In 2015, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan increased its position, acquiring Altor's remaining stock in the business. In May 2018, Ontario Teachers sold the company to Canadian Tire for CA$985 million.

Ultimately, they're probably better off avoiding poking the bear, and simply working to freeze the US out of the international scene moving forward.

This is good for unions and other above-board groups, but I can't help but wonder how this affects the various "dark money" lobby groups that have unclear ownership, but have been buying political ads across the country.

or is it just like regulation about what can be transported across provincial lines?

That's a big part of it - this is a decent explainer.

Except that Trump-style government will have negative knock-on effects on the Canadian status quo, and people will inevitably blame the current administration for that...

There's coffee in that cash grab.

To me, this is the crux of it:

Dr. Jitender Sareen is part of a group of eight university psychiatry chairs who wrote to federal ministers and urged the committee not to expand MAID to include mental illness.

Sareen said practice standards to guide psychiatrists and clinicians are inadequate, and Canada is lagging behind other countries in mental health and addictions funding.

"Offering death when the person has not had the opportunity to get better, with or without treatment, is, in our opinion, not acceptable," said Sareen, a professor and head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba.

If mental health supports in this country were anything close to adequate, it would be a different conversation.

There's precedent...

...because they saved Prodigy?

I would be astonished if anyone's talking about this by the time the next election rolls around.

The fact that it was originally written for a theatrical film probably helps.

It's the hot new trend - Warner and Disney have each done the same thing.