Protests are planned for the prime minister’s high-stakes summit aimed at attracting new investment to Canada, with organizers saying Mark Carney is keeping company with business leaders they say are exacerbating global crises.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has an unprecedented opportunity to build up the economy as global investors descend in Toronto for a high-stakes summit, and teased that a number of deals have already been signed.
Hundreds of executives and global asset managers are arriving in Toronto for Canada’s first-ever investment summit to get a look at major projects in various stages of development.
Speaking Sunday evening at the Royal Ontario Museum, Carney told Canadian business leaders and politicians that the world is looking at Canada different, and that Canada should do the same.
“We have what the world wants: the energy, the resources, the talent, the technology and the capital,” Carney said.
“And our greatest strength is something that cannot be found on any balance sheet: trust,” he said, in an apparent jab at U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Among those in attendance were Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and Canada’s chief trade commissioner, Sara Wilshaw.
The summit is a key part of Carney’s plan for stimulating $1 trillion in investment in Canada over the next five years.
Carney said while those in the room may not always agree, nor do they need to, they all align on where Canada is going.
“There is a new consensus from Iqaluit to Victoria to Quebec City and St. Johns: Canada is taking control of our future,” he said. “We will build more, we will trade more with each other and the world, and we will create more sustainable prosperity here at home.”
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said invitees come from Kuwait, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, Qatar, Norway, Japan and Australia.
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“This is about building relationships, opening doors and making the case that Ontario is one of the most investable places anywhere in the world,” Ford said in a media statement.
He said 15 major projects in Ontario are up for offer, including energy production and transmission, critical minerals and mining, AI and advanced manufacturing.
“We are building an economy that can compete with anyone, anywhere. That’s going to be my message throughout the Canada Investment Summit,” Ford said.
“Ontario has what the world needs and we’re going to make sure the world knows it.”
While Ford and Carney pitched the summit as an opportunity for investments in Canada, civil society groups say they’re keeping company with business leaders that are exacerbating global crises.
Demonstrators, including labour unions, Indigenous leaders and climate and housing advocates, will mobilize Monday carrying a banner reading “The Many vs. The Money,” and plan “direct intervention” with attendees.
Organizers say they reject Carney’s plan to put Canada’s economic future in the hands of CEOs, and that they worry about the future of public services, pipelines and arms manufacturing.
— With files from Craig Lord and Alessia Passafiume in Ottawa
Ok Mark. Quit lying.
Which state-paid journalist has the guts to ask Carney about all of his 91% AMERICAN investments? How about all his conflicts of interest, or pumping up his Brookfield Global Transition Funds using OUR TAX MONEY, or the new carbon pricing & higher carbon taxes coming in 2027 that we didn’t vote for? Which “journalist” has the balls to ask about why his company is the BIGGEST TAX CHEAT IN CANADIAN HISTORY, or why he continues to LIE about CHINA, and his LIES on NOT trying to get a deal with the US, and who will ask Carney why he’s intentionally filling Canada with dirty, 3rd world criminal, unvetted immigrants, giving them more and treating them better than the true CANADIANS who actually pay for it all??? Who has the balls to do it??? Right. NONE OF YOU DO. You should. R ashamed to call yourselves journalists, because you certainly AREN’T!!!! Your credibility is now garbage.
environmentalist and activists
Do a google search and see what he stands for words that come out his own mouth. He’s just taken over for Justin’s goal
Why are so many anti Carney?
Who would you prefer to lead us?
Maybe Mr. Trump?
Elbows up, be part of the team.
The problem here is that what Carney and his Liberal friends say continues to veer further and further from reality and truth.
But his far left supporters and the media continue to lap it all up.
In the news today, more holes have appeared in the good ship Canada, the captain and crew, reporting from the only lifeboat, that all is well and the ship is settling on a even keel.
Buying Canadian debt isn’t the kind of capital investment Canada needs. You are an abject failure mr PM
Thank you Carney! 1trillion is a good plan to defend Canada. If US doesn’t want Canada for anything and going to kill all Canada manufacture jobs, automotive workers, then we sell all the resources in Canada to the rest of the world! We build our own ships, trains, cars, trucks, pipes to carry all these resources everyone view Canada as a good world citizen. And arm all the able men and women with tools made in Canada using Canada steels. There will be a price to pay for environment impact for the mining, road, trees to cut, but this is our survivor strategy. Now is time to roll up the sleeves and get to the floor and farm to work. The money from foreigners are the wages we can earn.
environmentalist and activists, please let doers to make more money first to allow you collect money and disperse. Canada is in danger at this moment, manufacturers especially. Workers and farmers are met with tariffs and factory closures already. If daddy is not making money, what is left for mommy to feed the family?
The LPC will end up bowing to the purple-haired crowd. Don’t hold your breath, nothing will get built anytime soon.
So Ford says, “…15 major projects in Ontario are up for offer, including energy production and transmission, critical minerals and mining…”. Comical as his pizza buddy, Carney, and his Major Projects Office has NOT given FINAL APPROVAL to any major project since its inception over 1 year ago! Lightning fast approval said Carney… LOL!
OMG ! What breath of fresh air to hear someone who is intelligent, articulate and visionary. After the drooling Neanderthal south of the border , Carney has made Canada the envy of the civilized world. 🙏🙏🇨🇦🇨🇦
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What deals, what has been signed with whom for what? what investments? LIES.
“And our greatest strength is something that cannot be found on any balance sheet: trust,” — Carney we only trust you to screw up this nation worse than you were advising Trudeau to do. Piss off mate.
If Canada doesn’t start doing business soon there won’t be any money for public services you stupid left wing jerk offs
You can tell how concerned Carney’s detractors are by the strength of their opposition to his actions.
They really don’t like this Investment Summit.
It must not be Carney doing more ‘nothing’.
All these leaders are traitors and don’t give a damn about their citizens. Carney is a puppet to the Chinese communist party. Canadian leaders are imbeciles and a bunch of cry babies acting like their panties are in a knot. The federal and provincial leaders are handing over our land to aboriginals and they are slaves to aboriginals demanding more land and money, claiming cities should be owned by them. Why are we forced to listen to the bullcrap land acknowledgement. Our free speech is being taken away . I saw a video of a cop at a ladies door asking her to go to the police station to talk about her posts. Why aren’t the aboriginals force to dig up the FAKE grave site, they were given a huge amount of money to relocate the fake graves and after taking the money they refused to dig up the fake graves.
Shocked they didn’t say right wing protesters
Your not all there
Anonymous your not all there
Carnheehaw hired Suzuki to be his economic adviser
It’s all bullshat, he’ll be telling you same story month, year from now, you libs are so friggin stupid, why ? Did your grandma kick you in the head?
Don Sukkau
Thank you.
Carneys biggest investment is in Ukraine $26 billion dollars of disappearing money ,washing back into his and families bank accounts, and a 100 year contract so his offspring will be set for life
Are protesters completely clueless? Where do think money comes from the feed their social programs and standard of living?
Whose this guy working for?
My question to the protesters is what do you propose to build our economy? Investors don’t own the projects, but trust the investments to be sound and profitable with good returns while our government use the capital to build the projects. A economic powerful country might have stronger voice in stopping wars and dealing with climate changes on international stage. This is a democratic country where the majority elects our leader to guide the country out of crises and toward a stronger economy. Unless those choose to protest have better ideas, please stop making disruptive noises. It’s your right, I understand but when you don’t have a country, what that right gives you?
So funny 😂, libbys at carnholes feet like mangy street dog waiting for a treat
Oh ya big talking Carny! Major projects this and major projects that. Yap yap and more yap and guess what. No major projects started. Embarrassing and really just an outright lie to the Canadian public.
Sold Canada to China did he?
Well if Carney says it and global reports it must be true. Better get me one of them orange t-shirts too then sign up for MAID
Idiots! And I call anyone that protests bringing investment to Canada just that!
The only ones complaining are the ones living off government handouts. Cut them off so they can learn how an economy works.
Billions of canadain tax money to zelinsky and his courpt govenerment again!! Fist carney telles Canadians to brace for hard times ahead. Then the 4ft jew shows up with empty bags to be filled .liberals need to go !! Canadians need to end this s*** show
Global changing the headline again because people pointed out uncomfortable facts
They then wonder why trust in legacy media is at an all time low
So… Just people who don’t understand what an investment is or how that effects our economy? Cool. They’re not bringing foreign workers with them. They don’t even own the things they are investing in. They simply earn a dividend from it. This is a very good thing for our economy.
@Anonymous 630pm. It is a democratic right to protest. You said the protesters should be “bulldozed into Lake America.” Why? Because they disagree with you? I don’t agree with everything they will be protesting about, but that’s their right. Do you want to be like the US which is sliding even lower on world democracy indices? We aren’t a dictatorship.
Ahh yes, the “we hate everything” crowd and NDP voters coming out the protest the fact that government doesn’t fund the economy with fairy dust and unicorn farts.
Toronto police should do the entire country a favour and bulldoze these fools into Lake America.
0Proof has zero proof of course
Preferring instead to be a pathetic little troll
So how do people expect to gain investment in Canada without engaging business leaders?
Carney does not invest in Canada only the U.S.
More word salad from Mark Carnage!!!
The negative AI Bots are strong with these commentators..
Our own PM won’t even invest in Canada which doesn’t exactly send a message of confidence
Worried about public services? That is who running the operation. Negotiations on wages or we will embarrass you and your friends. The hint is ( putting out fires).
So after the Canadian government has done nothing to invest and make Canada strong because of all the regulations , environmental impact studies that hold back every project and carbon tax which is costing everyone more and does nothing to improve green house gases we are going to have a “Summit” that will bring in foreign investment and again forget any homegrown talent!
Also do not forget about all of the Canadian provincial trade barriers that have done nothing to improve Canada’s economy and have held it back because of protectionism of each and every province fighting each other instead of building Canada as they should all have been.
I Blame this on all levels of government Federal, provincial and municipal plus all Canadian political parties!
Canadians need to start standing up to all governments and demand better!