Commentary
What were the meaningful wins that came out of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit? And what benefit do these bring for the average Canadian? These are reasonable questions for Canadians to ask, having watched the fanfare of this summit from afar.
The summit was one of the hottest tickets Toronto has seen in years. A lot of prominent business people and other notables wanted access to the summit and couldn’t get it. The meetings and parties were behind both figurative and literal velvet ropes.
This at first glance appears to be a bit of a disconnect—to publicize so widely that you’re throwing a party but then let it be known that so few people are invited….