Thousands protest in downtown Toronto in opposition to the Canada Investment Summit organized by Prime Minister Mark Carney. Photo courtesy the Council of Canadians.

This past September, Prime Minister Mark Carney put together a summit of financial capital with a plan to pay for his neoliberal agenda of military investment, fossil fuel growth, extractivism, and attacks on working people and unions. In response, a large coalition of left-wing, environmentalist, Indigenous, anti-war, anti-capitalist, feminist, and Palestine solidarity organizations and activists organized a weekend of educational sessions, protests, panels, and workshops, culminating in a large demonstration to challenge that agenda.

Initiated by the Council of Canadians, 8th Fire Rising, and World Beyond War, the “Many vs. the Money” counter-summit soon attracted over 50 other groups. I attended the sessions and the demonstration, in addition to leading a workshop.

This substantial gathering to protest Carney’s policies and discuss alternatives represented a small but important step in building understanding and collective resistance to the Liberals’ right-wing agenda. That agenda has also helped the government attract conservative voters, contributing to its relatively high approval rating (57 percent as of........

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