Confront Carney’s CEO Summit
Sid Shniad
Rabble.ca July 28, 2026
Confront Carney’s CEO Summit
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Blackstone, Singapore’s GIC and other major investment firms are expected to participate in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s September summit in Toronto
On September 14–15, Mark Carney will host what he describes as “the world’s largest investors” at a conference in Toronto. Leading capitalists, financial institutions and investment funds will gather for the first-ever Canada Investment Summit. Presented as a strategy to attract investment, the summit will accelerate the extraction of ecologically damaging resources. It will also further open public property to capitalist interests.
The summit showcases and will consolidate Carney’s pro-corporate, militarist and anti-ecological agenda. At a time of unprecedented global heat waves, Carney is advancing new fossil fuel infrastructure. His Major Projects Office weakens environmental oversight and tramples on Indigenous rights in order to fast-track energy and critical minerals projects. His government is also undermining Health Canada restrictions on pesticides in the interests of corporate profit.
As insecurity from climate disruption grows and more than 60,000 Canadians sleep on the streets each night, Carney has dramatically increased military spending. While this is a windfall for arms companies, the militarist agenda is a threat to peace, public service workers and social programs that disproportionately benefit the working class and poor.
At a time of the greatest economic inequality in generations, Carney moved quickly to cut taxes on capital gains, big tech and other large enterprises. Incredibly, 86 Canadian billionaire families already control more wealth than the country’s 6.2 million least wealthy families combined. One Canadian alone possesses roughly $150 billion in wealth, while the world has now produced its first trillionaire.
Carney’s wealth-concentrating agenda must be resisted.
The Canada Investment Summit provides an opportunity for environmental, labour, Indigenous, housing, peace and social justice movements to come together in opposition to the government’s pro-corporate, militarist and anti-ecological agenda.
We invite organizations and individuals across these movements to join us. Sign up here.
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INITIATING SIGNATORIES
David Suzuki, award-winning scientist, broadcaster, and environmental activist
Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd and peace activist
Yann Martel, award winning Author, Life of Pi
Ellen Gabriel, documentary Filmmaker, Indigenous Human Rights and environmental Activist
Cory Doctorow, award winning author, activist, journalist
Clayton Thomas-Müller, Cree author, filmmaker, organizer, and Indigenous land and environmental justice defender
Russ Diabo, Kahnawake Mohawk, First Nations Policy Analyst and Spokesperson for the Truth Before Reconciliation Education & Advocacy Network
Judy Rebick, author, journalist, and founding publisher of rabble.ca
El Jones, associate Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University, Politics and Cultural Studies, and former Poet Laureate of Halifax
Sid Ryan, former President of the Ontario Federation of Labour and former President of CUPE Ontario
Mike Palecek, former President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Rinaldo Walcott, professor at the University of Toronto, author and public intellectual
Dimitri Lascaris, lawyer, journalist, and activist
Jord Samolesky, co-founder and drummer of Propagandhi
Alex Tyrrell, Leader of the Green Party of Quebec
Rabbi David Mivasair, Rabbi
Yves Engler, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Tamara Lorincz, PhD, member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-Canada), and peace and climate justice activist
Ian Angus, author, Editor of Climate & Capitalism, and founding member of the Global Ecosocialist Network
Khaled Loutfi Mouammar, Author, former president, Canadian Arab Federation
Amy Miller, filmmaker, Wide Open Exposure Productions
Sakura Saunders, mining justice organizer, writer, and activist
William Carroll, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Victoria
Kevin Gould, Associate Professor, Concordia University
Pierre Jasmin, Artistes pour la Paix
Grahame Russell, Co-Director, Rights Action
Matthew Remski, Author
Chun He, Palestine Impact Collective
Gerry Lacroix, SCAN (Seniors for Climate Action Now)
Bianca Mugyenyi, Author and Activist
Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Writer, Filmmaker
Lanyan Chen, Professor, Social Welfare and Social Development, Nipissing University
Eric Shragge, retired Associate Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, and co-founder of the Immigrant Workers Centre
Kendrah Eff, Ontarians Against Corruption
Tim Gordienko, Association of United Ukrainian Canadians
Tyler Shipley, Professor, Humber Polytechnic
Teaghan Young, activist
Henry Smaller, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, York University
Marie-France Arismendi, Latin American Canadian Solidarity Association
Pierre LeBlanc, activist
Hannah Uzelac, activistGary Engler, Unifor Local 2000, retired.
Cymry Gomery, Montreal for a World BEYOND War
Leslie Chandler, activist
Ron Batt, activist
Cathy Carpenter, activist
Danielle Sheahan, Danielle Sheahan Psychotherapy
Natalie Lebel, Being Human Psychotherapy & Consulting Services
Sharon Boyd, activist
Mohamed Hasan, activist
Mary Ellen Davis, documentary filmmaker and Part-time Faculty, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University
Murray Lumley, activist
Alex Lanouette, activist
Adam Rupik, activist
Jill Glessing, CUPE, World BEYOND War, Davenport4Palestine
Karen Young, activist
Andrew Glencross, activist
Alison Beckett, activist
Diane Frolick, activist
Jasmine Peardon, Coordinator, Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed, CREW Union
Zachary Ruiter, Journalist
Brydon Gombay, Activist
Gerald Rowe, Montreal Elders for Environmental Justice
Shaun Lovejoy, Professor, McGill University
Larry Neufeld, activist
Marta Hernández, activist
Nadia Alexan, Artistes pour la Paix
Gregory Gillis, activist
Niovi Patsicakis, activist
Laura Jones, activist
Nicole Gombay, Concerned citizen & Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Université de Montréal
Klaire Gain, Professor, King’s University College
Rhyd Whitham, Theatre Artist, PhD Student, York University
John Wunderlich, activist
Emma Valihora, activist
Dónal Gill, Professor of Political Science, Dawson College
Anna Gollen, activist
Claudia Chaufan, activist
Thomas Kemple, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Celeste Trianon, activist
Smadar Carmon, Build the Boycott
Caitriona Cantillon, activist
Graeme Jokic, filmmaker
Barry Weisleder, Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed, Socialist Action, and Red Review magazine
Sora Gibbons, Actor, Arts Educator & Musician
Gord Doctorow, NDP
Jacqui Gingras, Professor of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
James Deutsch, MD, PhD, FRCPC, physician and academic, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Fargo Moayed, Metro Vancouver for Palestine, Kritical Kanadian
Ed Durocher, Founder and guitarist, Apollo Suns
Brendan Devlin, Independent scholar and organizer
Marko Velimir Kobak, Popular Front of Canada
Grace Dulmage, activist
Emilie Petrin, activist
Daniel Salée, Professor, Political Science, Concordia University
Mariam Furre, Coordinator at Carleton Public Interest Research Group
Tayif Ahmed, activist
Sebastian Tansil, Secretary, Kensington Market Community Land Trust
Natalie Braun, York University
Meng Zhao, activist
Cléo Clamen, Journalist, Activist
Elliot Goodell Ugalde, PhD Candidate and Lecturer, Queen’s University | PSAC 901 Vice President
Stephen Gnanasihamany, Educator at Concordia University, Union organizer with Concordia Research and Education Workers (CREW) Union
Rosie Zhao, activist
Arnold August, Author, Journalist
Akrum Matuk, P.Eng
Douglas Williams, activist
Nathan Colquhoun, former Sarnia City Councillor
Ryan Dumont, Union Organizer and student, Concordia University
Hans Modlich, activist
Jag Ghankas, activist
Charles Gao, activist
Mason Mattu, activist and law student
Andrea Travas, activist
Solstice Gallotta, activist
You-Ju Choi, Teamsters Rail, Edmonton District Labour Council
Beau Shaw, New Democratic Party of Canada
Seamus Fleming, activist
Skadi Green, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Muhammad Abdulsalam, Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Lainie Sherry, activist
Amanda Peace, activist
Maia Mudric, Touch Grass Club
Beth Schreiner, activist
Dave Jules-Amilcar, activist
Jacob Holloway, lawyer
Dorothy Hodgins, Indigenous Rights Researcher at Reciprocity Research Inc.
Teale Phelps Bondaroff, Chair and co-founder, AccessBC Campaign
Candice Bodnaruk, writer, activist
Dave Perks, activist
Jennine Fayad, student activist
Nora Yaghi, concerned human
Nate Oberst, Popular Front of Canada
Isabel Smith, activist
Garrett Halas, Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Tarek Abdel Aziz, Songwriter, Founder of the band OP-ED
Tanya Cheal, activist
Cody Bondarchuk, activist
Luna McCormick, activist
Megan Donnelly, activist
Ashwin Shantha, Journal of International Solidarity
Cody Ateah, activist
Tina Oh, activist
Daniel McClelland, Peace Alliance Winnipeg
Damien Haogak, Indigenous Activist
Larry Haiven, activist
Laura Penner, Edmonton West NDP VP/ McClung Secretary for NDP
Ruth Urlacher, activist
Kim Madden, activist
Jane Yearwood, activist
Mauro Meden, activist
Steve Chalastra, activist
Krystyle Sutherland, activist
Andy Brunet, Independent photojournalist
Nicholas Beck, activist
Dominic Lucas, activist
Justin Cyr, Communist Party of Canada
Mathew Belloni, Ottawa Peace Council
Hélène Gaonac’h, Scientifique, pacifiste
Bruce Katz, Palestinian and Jewish Unity / Palestiniens et Juifs unis (PAJU)
Nicholas Libitka, Communist Party of Canada
Susan Wortman, Retired Psychotherapist
Tricia Robinson, Illustrator & Labour Organizer
Justin Carlson, activist
Ji Won Jung, NDP