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 @43d7c4ea Ok, I had to look it up. Brookfield Renewables, is owned by Brookfield Asset Management, which is owned by Brookfield Corporation, which appears to be divided amongst various large stock holders, such as banks and investment funds. So I guess it’s arguably mostly Canadian-ish, unless you want to go down the rabbit hole of who owns those banks and funds. It’s nearly impossible to determine who actually “owns” anything anymore, because it’s just shell corporations all the way down. 
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Good work; perhaps I should have said 'based in Canada'?... but the key thing for the post was non-domestic to the UK 
 @43d7c4ea The point  remains, that anything you think is “UK-based” would have a similar corporate structure. I am not a corporate oligarch myself, but I don’t imagine many of them identify very strongly with any nationality. Only capitalism. 
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There's a lot of analysis of #Corporations (albeit now some year old) that suggests actually MNC retain both the culture & to some extent ownership structure of their 'home' economy.... albeit within the limits of the overall global capitalist model - in other words they retain some national characteristics... while this may have shifted a bit in the years since the research I doubt it has completely evaporated... so it still makes sense to talk of a Canadian (based) MNC