Mark Carney’s investment summit advanced a right-wing corporate agenda—from airport privatization to tax breaks to environmental deregulation—while dressing it up as patriotic defiance.
Martin Lukacs joins Desmond Cole to break down what happened at the summit, as well as on the streets outside.
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I am not sure why at the end of your video about Carney’s summit, you took a swipe at the group Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed which played a major role in organizing, supplying, and getting people to come out to the successful rally at Nathan Phillips Square. Given how much work and planning they did, they don’t deserve to be smeared for wanting to take credit for its success. To deny them that just encourages rivalry between groups.
The rally and march confronting Carney’s CEO summit were such an encouraging show of outrage and solidarity among such a wide variety of progressive and leftist groups! Great coverage here by the Breach otherwise, but I don’t understand why you felt the need at the end to throw Capitalism Can’t Be Fixed under the bus for “claiming” to have organized it.
CCBF worked on this event for many months, starting to plan a Carnival Against Capitalism in May, after learning about the summit. We put thousands of posters and stickers up all over Toronto and handed out hundreds of leaflets. Educated people with online presentations about what was really at stake at this summit. We hosted art builds that produced so many of the images captured by the media and other groups documenting the event
As other groups started wanting to be part of the proceedings, we welcomed them and agreed wholeheartedly that they should each frame it according to their own terms. We knew “capitalism can’t be fixed” didn’t match everyone’s stance and were 100% cool with that.
Other groups volunteered to take on some of the logistics, and we were happy to give up some control in order to concentrate more energy on other aspects. And as other groups’ plans changed, we pivoted as quickly as possible to accommodate them, all in the name of solidarity, greater numbers, and broader public engagement.
I know the folks at the Breach don’t like Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi (though I can never quite figure out why there’s so much hostility toward them), but denying the incredible amount of volunteer work and fundraised money that went into this from a lot of people across the country who just want to see the public stand up to our wealth-hoarding, extractivist, human rights–denying ruling class seems mean and uncalled for.