But the British investors who control the other two-thirds of the company are balking.

Even now, though, conservative British investors might have reservations about the deal.

For British investors, the decline has been 7 percent.

The controversy was enough to keep some British investors away as well.

British institutional investors generally have more influence over domestic companies than their American counterparts.

To this end British investors were the most prolific in offering such aid.

British investors are also worried by the lengthy wait for a payoff.

Canadian officials would not release their names, but the list was said to include a number of prominent British investors in the company.

And now a new group of relatively small British investors is on the prowl.

Those deals, however, were in large part distributed to the British retail investor and not to the international investment community.