13 Days Before Carney’s Big Summit, She Quit. Then Things Got STRANGE

Mark Carney's Canada Investment Summit is being promoted as the beginning of a $1-trillion investment boom — but what happened behind the scenes raises some remarkable questions.Less than two weeks before the summit, Invest in Canada CEO Laurel Broten left more than a year before her term was scheduled to end. At the same time, questions were emerging about the agency's board governance and about how Ottawa's summit partnership with CPP Investments and PSP Investments actually works.Then there are the investment numbers themselves.Canada recorded $96.8 billion in foreign direct investment inflows in 2025 — but $43.6 billion came through mergers and acquisitions. That's legitimate foreign investment, but buying an existing Canadian asset isn't necessarily the same thing as building new productive capacity.So what exactly does Ottawa mean when it talks about record investment?And with Mark Carney now targeting $1 trillion in investment over five years, Canadians deserve to know how the numbers are calculated, how the summit is governed and who is making the decisions.Today on Tap the Maple, Bakes goes behind Canada's investment headlines and asks the question that matters:Don't show us the headline. Show us the ledger.#cdnpoli #canada #canadian #liberal #conservative #markcarney #investment #investmentsummit #canadianinvestmet #investment #capital #capitalinvestment #canadianpolitics #canadapolitics #canadiannews #canadanews #politics #news #canadaeconomy #tapthemaple #bakesonthings #canadavlogs #canadavlog #podcast