Peter MacKay: Mark Carney must ignore Trump’s baiting and get back to the table
The euphoria has subsided and the Canada Investment Summit promotional materials packed away, but there has been scarce little time yet to total up the actual investments it produced.
The book of potential projects and the number of potential investors was impressive.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper remarked that he wished he had come up with the idea.
His presence reminds us what a balanced budget, Canadian energy superpower ambition and affordability and serious statesmanlike leadership can accomplish.
He also drew attention to the size of the challenges that still exist.
How we live up to the promise to cut through the infamous sea of red tape, anti development legislation and Gordian knots tied by bureaucrats was missing from the rhetoric and receptions in Toronto last week.
Also absent was the truth about the lost decade and the narrative reversal on pipeline and critical mineral projects, which had "no business" case just a short time ago.
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