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Mark Carney
Prime Minister, Canada
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LIVE: Canada has what the world wants. • EN DIRECT : Le Canada possède ce que le monde recherche.

📅 Sep 13, 2026 Mark Carney 15 MIN 98861 VIEWS 26 SEGMENTS · 3 SPEAKERS

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Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, addressed investors at the Royal Ontario Museum ahead of a global investment summit. He thanked organizers Deb Arita and John Graham, and praised the museum's founder, banker Sir Edmund Walker, as a model of partnership. Carney said Canadians are united and buying Canadian, with the federal government and provinces working with Indigenous groups as partners and owners in projects. He noted that in the last week, several unnamed companies announced plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in Canada. He highlighted a 47-day trade deal with the U.S. and the relaunch of Invest in Canada under CEO Guillaume Grievesdahl and board chair Dominic Barton. Carney said the world's largest investors, managing over $120 trillion in assets, will attend the summit. He emphasized a new national consensus on building more, trading more, and creating sustainable prosperity, with trust as Canada's greatest strength.

Key takeaways

  1. Carney said companies announced plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in Canada in the last week.
  2. Carney cited a 47-day timeline for a trade deal with the U.S.
  3. Carney said investors managing over $120 trillion in assets will attend the summit.
  4. Carney announced Invest in Canada is relaunching under CEO Guillaume Grievesdahl and board chair Dominic Barton.
  5. Carney said the federal government and provinces are working with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis as partners and owners in projects.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
47 days timeframe for a trade deal with the U.S. timeline 8:31
120 trillion dollars assets under management of investors attending the summit metric 11:52

Chapters

  1. 0:00Thanks and museum history
  2. 5:43Canadian unity and buying Canadian
  3. 6:33Government and Indigenous partnerships
  4. 7:23Recent capital investment announcements
  5. 8:31Trade deal with the U.S
  6. 8:41Relaunch of Invest in Canada
  7. 9:21Economic transformation and solidarity
  8. 10:54New national consensus
  9. 11:52Upcoming investor summit
  10. 12:34Canada's strengths and closing
Deb Arita 0:08 ↗
A town poor Canada. Prime Minister, Ambassador Wiseman, John, colleagues and friends, thank you for coming tonight.
This week, Canada is hosting an unprecedented gathering of global investors responsible for managing over a hundred trillion dollars of capital. But before those conversations begin, we wanted to gather the people in this room together.
The summit has attracted international attention, but Canada has never been — our story has never been written by others. It's been written by Canadians who've built companies, who've invested capital, and who've turned ideas into opportunities.
That's why tonight matters. Over the past year, many of us have spoken about Canada's potential. We've spoken about our competitive advantages, our resources, our innovation economy, and our sophisticated financial institutions.
But as global investors, we know that potential alone is not enough. As John says, capital flows like water. It rushes to where opportunities are clear, where there are good risk-adjusted returns, and where ambition can be translated into execution.
When we began organizing this summit, John, Mark Wiseman, and I drew heavily on our experiences at other international summits, and we intentionally designed this summit in concentric circles with a focused nucleus around international investors. And we are absolutely thrilled by the broader ecosystem that has developed around that focus nucleus.
The summit is not a single day for a select few. It's a week-long event of activities starting tonight. And your opportunity as Canadian leaders is to leverage this moment to make new connections, to turn curiosity into interest, and to make this week the catalyst for future action.
On a personal note, when I left Toronto, where I was born and raised, to work in investment banking, I was struck by the power of optimism, by the ability to achieve when one starts not only with a can-do, but even a can-win attitude. And that's what we have here today in Canada. I'm very proud of that. And I'm looking forward to being inspired by all of you and what you do with this week. Working together, I believe we can win.
Speaking of commitment and inspiration. Prime Minister, thank you for joining us. The floor is yours.

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Carney, M. (2026, September 13). LIVE: Canada has what the world wants. • EN DIRECT : Le Canada possède ce que le monde recherche. [Interview transcript]. Mark Carney. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2958869/

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Mark Carney. "LIVE: Canada has what the world wants. • EN DIRECT : Le Canada possède ce que le monde recherche.." Mark Carney, 13 Sep. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2958869/.

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@misc{carney2026_2958869,
  author       = {Mark Carney},
  title        = {LIVE: Canada has what the world wants. • EN DIRECT : Le Canada possède ce que le monde recherche.},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Mark Carney. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {sep},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2958869/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}