Attracting capital isn't a crime — Canada does need investment — but Mark Carney's safe harbour pitch reads like a private sale by another name. Promising C$1tn and opening the doors to the world's biggest financiers without clear, binding public safeguards is reckless: these firms answer to shareholders, not to communities, workers, or our climate commitments. Privatizing airport operations risks higher fees, worse working conditions and weaker public oversight; unions are right to be alarmed. Worse still is the mix of projects on offer — more mining, defence and fossil‑fuel infrastructure — which contradicts any serious plan to meet our emissions targets and respect Indigenous land rights. If Ottawa wants foreign capital, make it conditional: enforce climate-aligned investment rules, guaranteed union rights and living wages, Indigenous consent and real community benefits, strict transparency and full parliamentary scrutiny. And stop holding crucial policy talks behind closed doors with billionaires. We can build a resilient, diversified economy, but it must be democratic, green and fair — not just a shopping trip for global finance.
