Growth capital for Canadian companies should be high on our economic agenda

Mark Carney plans to invite the world’s largest investors to a summit in Toronto in September to 'advance Canada’s nation-building projects.' But we need to be more than a branch-plant economy.

Prime Minister Mark Carney. While Canada is fairly good at taking new ideas and launching start-ups, we fail dismally in financing the growth of companies to build future prosperity, and we need to change that, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 27, 2026

TORONTO—Prime Minster Mark Carney plans to invite the world’s largest investors to a summit in Toronto this September to “advanc...

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