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And it's timely that we were talking to someone from Toronto this morning, Jamie, because what is happening in Toronto right now as well is the Canada Investment Summit, where we have Carney flashing some very, very large projects to foreign investors.

I'm just quoting from the CBC right here.

About 167 projects are included in the prospectus, and this includes 11 conventional energy projects, 31 clean energy ones, glad we've got some of those on the table at least, 63 in mining and metals, 16 in marine and port infrastructure, 11 in power and utilities, 10 in digital technology, and 19 in advanced manufacturing and six transportation projects.

So, it is large, covers every corner of the country.

I think Avi has been doing a wonderful job of being very outspoken in the media about just the impacts of selling off so many of our resources and so much of our infrastructure to foreign investors and really really raising an alarm about that.

So I think we've been getting some good coverage amidst what is a bit of a bleak pitch for taking over Canada, economically speaking.

Well, it's interesting.

And then some of those projects that you mentioned there that are on the sales block today and tomorrow are energy projects that the prime minister and his government have recently dropped.

from impact assessment review, including pipelines and oil and gas projects.

This is as reported by IADU4 on iPolitics.ca, but the more technical Canada Energy Regulator will now solely review these projects despite concerns voiced during consultations this summer that the move would weaken scrutiny of cumulative effects, species at risk, climate change, and indigenous rights.

A liberal government source told iPolitics that the rush to implement that regulatory change before Parliament resumes is tied to the West Coast oil pipeline proposal backed by Alberta and Ottawa.

So more of the same, I guess, from this government, but certainly cause for much concern.

Environmental groups and anybody who's concerned about the climate.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And it's so interesting that, you know, of course, so many of those firms are going to be American as well, as we're in the middle of a trade war with the U.S. I've got Abby Lewis's direct words here quoted in that CBC article.

He's criticized the investment summit as a plan to, quote, save this country by selling it off, unquote.

Yeah.

I think that's actually quite a pithy description of what we're seeing.

That's not to say that none of those projects should proceed.

Where I'm deeply critical is who is benefiting from our resources, from our infrastructure projects.

I think if we're going to move ahead with some very tough choices about some very heavy development and investment, it should be Canadians that benefit.

I worry that that will not be the outcome of any of this.

Yeah.

And, you know, some of these projects were would have been previously subject to the Impact Assessment Agency, which was a government body that would evaluate, you know, broad environmental, social health and economic effects of the of them.