Western Standard - Protesters are STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS as Carney hosts $1-trillion investor gala

00:00:00.000 You should be brutalizing them! 1.00

00:00:06.000 You should be killing them! 1.00

00:00:12.000 Not gay people, not black people, not Palestinian people! 1.00

00:00:30.000 Prime Minister Mark Carney's first Canada Investment Summit is in Toronto tonight. 0.97

00:00:41.300 A closed-door pitch for $1 trillion from BlackRock, Blackstone, pension funds and sovereign wealth.

00:00:48.020 Premier Doug Ford is in the room selling 15 Ontario projects, none of which he's made publicly available yet.

00:00:53.940 So here we are at Nathan Phillips Square, downtown Toronto, for the many versus money protests

00:00:58.480 that are happening now in response to that gala,

00:01:00.980 they say Canada is being auctioned off.

00:01:03.320 So we're here to ask people what they actually want stopped

00:01:05.760 and what they think that should be put in its place.

00:01:08.280 Let's find out.

00:01:09.880 Mark Carney said that Canada needs a trillion dollars

00:01:12.360 because of the ongoing trade war with the United States.

00:01:14.720 And so we're just wondering what people think

00:01:16.020 is a better solution than private money

00:01:18.100 or how Canada can get out of this situation

00:01:20.860 without kind of auctioning off

00:01:22.140 some of the projects they have going on.

00:01:23.480 Well, let's be clear.

00:01:24.680 Carney is not a political representative in our eyes.

00:01:28.040 He's a part of a class of people that are in the business of making a lot of money 0.93

00:01:33.680 off the backs of Indigenous peoples, off the backs of labour. 0.78

00:01:38.260 As far as we're concerned, the projects that he is involved in, 0.98

00:01:41.580 from mining down to oil and gas and AI,

00:01:45.060 these are not the types of industries that we want to see proliferate.

00:01:51.160 I would just add that the militarisation of Canada is extremely dangerous.

00:01:55.020 Basically, Kearney is putting a target on Canada.

00:01:57.480 The war against Iran has shown the obsolescence of all the American military technology.

00:02:05.660 This is going to bankrupt Canada.

00:02:07.680 The people of Canada, Carney talks about Canadian sacrificing and austerity,

00:02:13.380 but not for the billionaire class that he's welcomed here to Toronto. 0.99

00:02:16.620 These people are parasites that are causing immense suffering globally. 1.00

00:02:21.540 The fact that Canada continues to support a live stream genocide going on for now four years is absolutely disgusting. 1.00

00:02:30.920 The Canadian people, by and large, see this.

00:02:33.900 The global community sees this.

00:02:36.760 And again, history is going to record them.

00:02:39.280 What they've done in terms of burning the planet, it's going to record the fact that Trudeau, Kearney, 0.68

00:02:46.280 all the major political class of Canada have supported genocide in Gaza, in Lebanon, and now against Iran.

00:02:54.760 And against Cuba, by the way.

00:02:56.880 Would you say that also applies to the 100-year commitment they made with Ukraine just recently? 0.71

00:03:01.800 Absolutely. A 100-year deal for Ukraine?

00:03:06.820 Again, it's an obscenity.

00:03:08.020 $25 billion plus that Canada has poured into this war, which is, by the way, a NATO proxy war.

00:03:14.280 NATO provoked this war, and this is why our media, for the most part, mainstream corporate media, constantly say the unprovoked war.

00:03:24.280 This is propaganda number one, which we are being drilled with every single day by the CBC and by our own government.

00:03:32.280 So I think people really need to wake up. We need to resist what our government is doing.

00:03:39.280 projects that they're pitching to investors are going to be like energy oil critical minerals

00:03:44.560 that kind of thing would you say that your biggest issue is with where this where the money's coming

00:03:48.800 from or with the projects themselves i think it's both i think it's both i think we need to be

00:03:54.880 um very mindful of our environment and the destruction of the environment that many of

00:03:59.120 these projects will bring and i think we also need to um not privatize many of the things that we

00:04:06.960 canadians uh are find very important like health care education and that sort of thing if perhaps

00:04:12.960 for example one of these projects were to lead to the opening of like a new nuclear plant or a new

00:04:17.600 mine or something like that and it created a whole bunch of jobs for canadians would you consider

00:04:21.600 that a win or still a loss i think we can find jobs elsewhere i think there's lots of green

00:04:26.400 energy projects that can find jobs there's jobs in health care there's jobs in education there's

00:04:30.560 jobs in sustainable projects that we should look to it's called a wealth tax ever heard of it just

00:04:35.600 need to charge the richest families in Canada, make them pay their fair share, just a straightforward

00:04:41.480 wealth tax, not income tax, and raise as much as you need. You take 3% from them, 4%, whatever

00:04:47.460 he needs to get the money he thinks he needs. We have a climate catastrophe unfolding right

00:04:52.320 here in Canada, more forest fires every year. Half the people who were evacuated were indigenous

00:04:58.360 people, so we're treating them horribly. The last thing in the world we should be doing 0.98

00:05:02.500 is building more fossil fuel infrastructure.

00:05:04.580 The UN says it.

00:05:05.700 COP says it.

00:05:06.360 Everyone who knows it is in the know says

00:05:08.080 there is no room for any more climate infrastructure.

00:05:10.600 So what does he not understand?

00:05:11.600 He used to be a climate finance guy from the UN.

00:05:15.380 Carney was one of the climate finance ambassadors. 0.97

00:05:18.280 He knows exactly what the fuck we should be doing. 0.93

00:05:20.380 He's not doing it. 0.97

00:05:21.820 So if they're going to build pipelines

00:05:23.640 and carbon capture and LNG,

00:05:25.840 why isn't he getting the billionaires to pay for that?

00:05:28.100 You know why?

00:05:29.260 They would never take such risks of stranded assets.

00:05:34.060 They're not buying into the pipeline.

00:05:35.660 Carney's got to find money for that.

00:05:37.100 He's got to find money for LNG.

00:05:39.100 And carbon capture is actually just fraud.

00:05:42.180 It's not the real deal.

00:05:44.100 So he's doing the wrong things.

00:05:46.380 What we need is we have an affordability crisis.

00:05:48.460 I remember he said he got in because Canada was not for sale.

00:05:52.520 That was one of his main buy-ins.

00:05:53.780 Canada not for sale.

00:05:54.500 And a year and a half later, he's having a fire sale on Canada.

00:05:57.900 How's it going to help to have private airports?

00:05:59.840 They'll just raise rates to make profit, reduce service,

00:06:03.360 do everything they need to get 20% return on their money.

00:06:06.760 And it's a monopoly.

00:06:07.800 There's no other airport to go to.

00:06:09.840 There's only two, one in Ottawa, one in Montreal, one in Vancouver, two here.

00:06:14.540 They privatize them, they'll just raise...

00:06:16.440 So Canada needs more than anything.

00:06:18.700 It's an affordability crisis that we're dealing with.

00:06:21.780 It'll stop.

00:06:23.020 And we have a climate crisis.

00:06:24.420 is we need to be building out wind, solar, and battery, and grid.

00:06:29.180 And Mr. Carney also knows that.

00:06:30.620 He's a very smart guy, and he's betrayed us.

00:06:33.360 He lied to us. 1.00

00:06:34.680 He lied to us to get all these people to vote for him to keep Polyev out. 1.00

00:06:38.040 Polyev's probably a little worse. 0.93

00:06:39.940 And now he's betrayed us.

00:06:41.640 Within a year, he's completely betrayed us.

00:06:43.840 It's just, it's stunning.

00:06:45.840 Carney is a banker.

00:06:47.520 He's always been a banker. 0.99

00:06:48.680 So he's never going to cater to the working class.

00:06:51.100 He's going to cater to the capitalist class.

00:06:53.160 and I already don't believe that we'd have a working democracy in this country. 0.86

00:06:58.260 At the end of the day, the billionaires do know that the planet's absolutely f***ed

00:07:01.880 and they don't care about extracting more and more because they have bunkers.

00:07:05.560 I'm really f***ing scared. I want to go there and I want to make them scared

00:07:08.940 because I don't have hope for the future. I don't have children.

00:07:12.960 I have wanted to have children. I have stopped myself from having children

00:07:16.420 because I'm really f***ing scared.

00:07:18.360 The concern we have is with the people that Carney is inviting here.

00:07:23.660 We're not against investment in jobs.

00:07:24.960 We want to see jobs.

00:07:25.800 We want to see investment in Canada.

00:07:27.360 But he's inviting billionaires, CEOs, people like the head of BlackRock,

00:07:32.500 the exact companies that have caused the climate crises, 0.67

00:07:36.400 that have been funding the genocide in Gaza.

00:07:39.900 So if there's a good project and good jobs, that's great.

00:07:42.560 But that's not the people he's invited.

00:07:43.880 He's invited people who want to build AI data centers that have no jobs.

00:07:46.780 He's wanting to expand LNG pipeline, but it's going to be built, or sorry, LNG plant, but it's going to be built in Korea and floated over here.

00:07:57.640 There are no jobs there for Canadians. It's just an extraction of our resources, and there's no actual investment in Canada.

00:08:04.060 That's the problem.

00:08:05.120 I'm really concerned by Ford's sucking up and talking about data centers as a good investment in Canada.

00:08:11.600 We've seen what that causes in the U.S., skyrocketing hydro or electricity rates and tons of noise for communities around it, increased use of burning of fossil fuels.

00:08:23.600 We've already seen under Ford that we're going from 92 percent clean energy to down to like 70 percent clean energy because he hasn't properly invested in our electrical grid.

00:08:34.300 The idea of bringing in all these new AI data centers that are going to provide almost no jobs

00:08:39.960 and are, again, just sitting here making noise, causing pollution,

00:08:44.020 and basically just making tech companies from the U.S. more wealthy.

00:08:48.900 That's the problem.

00:08:50.000 It's not actual investment in Canada.

00:08:52.280 It is allowing tech companies and Americans to come and extract what we have here.

00:08:58.300 That's our concern.

00:08:59.220 We definitely need to keep paying our taxes.

00:09:02.920 Everybody needs to pay their taxes.

00:09:05.160 You've got so many people in Canada that are so rich that don't pay their taxes.

00:09:09.760 Corporate tax, it doesn't exist.

00:09:12.200 That needs to come back.

00:09:13.120 The corporations need to pay their share, and the polluters need to pay and stop polluting.

00:09:18.760 So you think the biggest problem with our funding issues is that people are skirting their taxes and not paying enough?

00:09:23.120 Not people, it's corporations.

00:09:25.020 Corporations are scamming the system, and we, the ordinary taxpayer, are paying our fair share.

00:09:30.580 They're not paying their fair share.

00:09:32.080 They need to step up and do the right thing.

00:09:35.080 Kearney, Kearney, hear our police.

00:09:40.080 Your investment's killing me.

00:09:44.080 Kearney, Kearney, let's discuss.

00:09:49.080 Your investment's killing us.

00:10:02.080 not for sale not for profit that seems to be the sentiment the crowd is expressing today

00:10:17.840 a big problem with the foreign investors that are coming into canada and this group says that

00:10:23.440 Canada is being sold out.

00:10:38.720 Protests have come to a halt next to a police barricade

00:10:42.240 and they've all started chanting. I've seen many different groups here, many different flags.

00:10:45.760 You should be brutalizing them! 1.00

00:10:53.760 You should be killing them! 1.00

00:10:59.760 Not Native people, not Black people, not Palestinian people! 1.00

00:11:08.760 We don't want you here! 1.00

00:11:15.760 We don't want you here!

00:11:18.760 We don't want you here!

00:11:21.760 Well there you have it. Many groups have come together for this event.

00:11:24.760 There's been hundreds of people out here, perhaps even a thousand.

00:11:27.760 I've seen all sorts of different flags.

00:11:29.760 We've seen Iranian flags, of course Palestinian flags,

00:11:32.760 Antifa flags, lots of environmentalist groups

00:11:35.760 and indigenous groups as well.

00:11:37.760 It seems they've come together under the unified cause of trying to prevent not only the foreign investments into Canada,

00:11:46.600 but also the projects themselves that have been put on the table for investment.

00:11:50.440 The biggest issues that I heard people talk about were environmental issues,

00:11:56.100 what the extraction of our resources is going to do to the natural environment and also to Indigenous groups specifically.

00:12:03.700 Be sure to follow the Western Standard to get more on-the-ground coverage like this.

00:12:06.900 I'm Jeff Knight, signing out.

Western Standard - September 15, 2026

Protesters are STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS as Carney hosts $1-trillion investor gala

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