Hey, there, ted!  "Everybody I speak to gets riled up about this."  Well, you didn't speak to me--until you posted this inane comment.  Now, I'm plenty "riled up," too!  

What you're suggesting is that the Canadian government act in an autocratic way and take away the freedom of a company to act in its own best interests.  If the Canadian government wants it to act in ITS own interests, Canada can make a bid for it, too.  Turn it into a Crown Corp.  

This is a sale of a private Canadian company to a Chinese company; sure, it likely  works under different sovereign regs than Canadian companies work under.  THAT is why the Canadian government's gonna "let this one go" as Trump would say. See?  Pro-freedom, as you might put it.