Open letter: Confront Carney's CEO Summit
(Le français suit)

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 overwhelmingly 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.

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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

Tony McQuail, Regenerative Farmer and Environmental Activist, former NDP Leadership candidate

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, activist

Gary 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, Human being who deserves to live

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


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 Lettre ouverte : Opposez-vous au sommet des PDG organisé par Carney

Les 14 et 15 septembre prochains, Mark Carney accueillera ce qu’il décrit comme « les plus grands investisseurs du monde » lors d’une conférence à Toronto. Des capitalistes de premier plan, des institutions financières et des fonds d’investissement se réuniront à l’occasion du tout premier Sommet canadien de l’investissement. Présenté comme une stratégie visant à attirer les investissements, ce sommet aura pour effet d’accélérer l’exploitation de ressources nuisibles à l’environnement. Il contribuera également à ouvrir davantage le patrimoine public aux intérêts capitalistes. 

Ce sommet met en avant et consolidera le programme pro-entreprises, militariste et anti-écologique de Carney. À l’heure où le monde connaît des vagues de chaleur sans précédent, Carney promeut de nouvelles infrastructures liées aux énergies fossiles. Son Bureau des grands projets affaiblit la surveillance environnementale et bafoue les droits des peuples autochtones afin d’accélérer la mise en œuvre de projets énergétiques et d’exploitation de minéraux critiques. Son gouvernement sape également les restrictions imposées par Santé Canada sur les pesticides, au profit des entreprises.

Alors que l’insécurité liée aux perturbations climatiques s’accroît et que plus de 60 000 Canadiens dorment dans la rue chaque nuit, Carney a considérablement augmenté les dépenses militaires. Si cela représente une aubaine pour les fabricants d’armes, ce programme militariste constitue une menace pour la paix, les fonctionnaires et les programmes sociaux qui profitent de manière disproportionnée à la classe ouvrière et aux plus démunis. 

À une époque où les inégalités économiques atteignent leur plus haut niveau depuis des générations, Carney n’a pas tardé à réduire les impôts sur les plus-values, les géants de la tech et d’autres grandes entreprises. Chose incroyable, 86 familles milliardaires canadiennes contrôlent déjà plus de richesse que les 6,2 millions de familles les moins aisées du pays réunies. Un seul Canadien possède à lui seul environ 150 milliards de dollars de fortune, tandis que le monde compte désormais son premier « trillionnaire ».

Il faut s’opposer au programme de Carney, qui favorise la concentration des richesses.

Le Sommet canadien de l’investissement offre l’occasion aux mouvements écologistes, syndicaux, autochtones, de défense du logement, de paix et de justice sociale de s’unir pour s’opposer au programme pro-entreprises, militariste et anti-écologique du gouvernement.

Nous invitons les organisations et les individus issus de ces mouvements à se joindre à nous.

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