By Alessia Passafiume Prime Minister Mark Carney’s high-stakes pitch for foreign investment is also attracting protests by Indigenous leaders and civil society groups opposed to his agenda. Hundreds of executives and global asset managers descended on Toronto on Monday for Canada’s first-ever national investment summit. Carney has set an ambitious goal of attracting $1 trillion in new investment over the next five years. Demonstrators, including representatives of labour unions, Indigenous leaders and climate and housing advocates, plan to mobilize against the event and protest outside the summit’s opening gala. Protest organizers say they reject the idea of leaving Canada’s economic future in the hands of CEOs and worry about the future of public services, pipelines and arms manufacturing. Speaking in Toronto on Monday, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks said Carney has…
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