RE:Takeover of IVNThat's a good question KITCHENSINK. I don't know the answer but it does show how ridiculous Canada has become. A Canadian company essentualliy trying to raise funds to finance an operation in South America and can't because the Canadian Government. I remind the board, one of the main reasons that Chinese entities play such a large part in IVN's development is because no one in North America would finance them. Even after it was clear that IVN had a world class discovery, very few brokerages covered them beause they had no vested interest.
The reality is, if a company wanted to, they could just redomicile to another jurisdiction to by pass Canada's anti business laws. Ovintiv ( formerly Encana) did it because they were done with the Canadian government's energy policies and they have significant assets in Canada. IVN only has an office in Canada.
I suppose its all speculation at this point, but I can see some corporate restructure coming down the pipes at some point. There has long been talk of a South Africian spinoff and RF alluded to what sounds like something outside normal operations in the fall. We shall see.