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The company said Tuesday that it filed an application for a judicial review with the Federal Court in Vancouver on Dec. 5, which seeks to set aside the order for TikTok to wind-up and cease its business in Canada.
The Canadian federal government last month announced it was of TikTok Technology Canada Inc. after a national security review of its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd.
The government is not blocking access to the TikTok app, which will continue to be available to Canadians. TikTok said it has 14 million users in Canada, which is about a third of the population. It has offices in Toronto and Vancouver.
The wildly popular platform is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company that moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020, but is under increasing pressure in the West. ItB次元官网网址檚 facing a possible and intensifying scrutiny in Europe over issues including allegedly coordinated by Moscow.
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The review was carried out through the Investment Canada Act, which allows the government to investigate foreign investment with potential to harm national security.
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