• Carney names Dominic Barton as chair of Invest in Canada, replaces CEO

  Source: CBC Politics
  Date: 2026-08-31 22:37:00.0
  Tags: [National, Economy, Trade, Industry, Governance]

  Prime Minister Mark Carney's government overhauled the leadership of the federal foreign investment agency Invest in Canada, appointing former ambassador Dominic Barton as chair of the board of directors and Gurinder Grewal as chief executive officer. Grewal replaces outgoing CEO Laurel Broten, who submitted her resignation effective September 1, nearly four years into a five-year term with no public explanation provided. The leadership restructuring occurs two weeks before Carney's inaugural investment summit in Toronto, where federal officials and major domestic funds like the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Public Sector Pension Investment Board aim to pitch international investors on Canadian economic projects.

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• What went wrong with U.S. trade talks, according to Canada's chief negotiator

  Source: CBC Politics
  Date: 2026-08-28 21:00:00.0
  Tags: [National, Trade, Economy, Industry, Culture, Governance]

  Canada's chief U.S. trade negotiator Janice Charette disputed claims made by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer regarding the collapse of bilateral trade talks. Charette maintained that Canada consistently raised concerns regarding medium- and heavy-duty trucks—such as Ford's F-series pickups and General Motors' Silverado—throughout the week rather than introducing them as a last-minute tactic to kill the deal. Furthermore, Charette confirmed that U.S. negotiators repeatedly pushed to remove Canadian French-language discoverability rules on streaming platforms like Netflix and sought to restrict Canada's sovereignty in establishing future free trade agreements with third-party nations. In response to the breakdown in negotiations and U.S. President Donald Trump's implementation of 50 per cent tariffs, the federal government announced retaliatory tariffs matching $27.6 billion on comparable U.S. goods and rolled out a $7.5 billion support package for affected Canadian workers and businesses.

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