Carney to showcase Canada’s capital agenda at first-ever investment summit

Prime Minister Mark Carney will gather scores of deep-pocketed investors in Toronto next week in a bid to fix Canada’s “Achilles heel” — a persistent lack of business investment dragging down the economy. Hundreds of global and domestic investors with trillions of dollars in assets under management will descend on a downtown Toronto hotel on Sept. 14 and 15 for Canada’s first-ever national investment summit.Carney, cabinet members, premiers and other Canadian business leaders will be there with lists of major projects across the country.Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s got a list of 34 proposed projects she’ll be shopping to investors at the summit; Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe plans to pitch his provinces’ energy, critical mineral, defence and agriculture sectors.New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt said she will be pushing multiple projects including a port expansion, a data centre in Lorneville, and a rehabilitation project of a power plant known as the Mactaquac lifetime achievement project. Story continues below advertisement The investment event is being co-organized by the Prime Minister’s Office with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Public Sector Pension ...