By World BEYOND War, August 2, 2026
Behind Canadians’ backs, our federal and provincial governments are planning to auction off what’s left of our public infrastructure and natural resources to foreign investors, U.S. asset managers, and other financial representatives of the global 1%.
Prime Minister Carney is hosting a “Canada Investment Summit” on September 14-15, 2026, where CEOs and executives from 100 of the world’s largest foreign investors – including BlackRock, Blackstone, J.P. Morgan, sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia and UAE – are gathering in Toronto at the invitation of the federal government.
On the menu? Airports. Toll highways. Water and power plants. Housing. Indigenous lands. Oil and mineral deposits. Tax breaks. Military contracts. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “investment summit” is in fact a privatization summit.
In response, a broad coalition of organizations is hosting a “Many versus the Money” counter-summit and protest.
Convened by the Council of Canadians, 8th Fire Rising and World BEYOND War, the “Many versus the Money” counter-summit will bring together organizers, researchers and front-line activists from various movements (labour, Indigenous, tenants, climate, anti-war, migrant rights, Palestine solidarity, and others) for a conference and day-long teach-in.
Keynote panels at the conference will feature Naomi Klein, Keeanga Yahmatta Taylor, along with Indigenous land defenders, movement organizers, labour activists, and other special guests.
The “Many versus the Money” summit will be held in Toronto on the evening of Saturday, September 12, and all day on Sunday, September 13 at OCAD University (100 McCaul Street). Then we’ll confront Carney’s summit when it starts the next day on Monday.
Panels at the counter-summit will look at the financial players behind the privatization drive; the role these corporate elites play in the worsening crises working-class people face; critical analysis of Carney’s broader corporate agenda of war, extractivism and austerity; how the many can organize to defeat the money; and what an alternative “peoples’ investment” agenda would look like.
Our movement summit will build momentum for protests against the privatization summit on Monday, September 14, as well as upcoming mobilizations like the March for Migrant Justice (September 20) and the Grassy Narrows River Run (September 23).
Spots are very limited – register here. More info here.
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