Understanding Canada's performance on the OECD's FDI regulatory restrictiveness index

Over the years, Canada has consistently ranked poorly relative to its peers on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) foreign direct investment (FDI) regulatory restrictiveness index, a metric used to capture countries’ openness to FDI. The most recent data for 2020 shows that Canada’s index is over three times higher than the average of its G7 peers.