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While many of us spent the summer relaxing with family (and trying not to choke on wildfire smoke), Canada’s corporate elite have been designing an all-out assault on workers, First Nations, migrants and the environment—and Mark Carney’s Liberals are getting ready to carry it out.
Quadrupling military spending and secretly sending arms to Israel. Slashing public services in what the Prime Minister himself is calling an “austerity” budget. Pushing pipelines and mines over the objections of Indigenous peoples. Clamping down on migrant rights, ordering striking workers back to the job and cozying up to Trump.
Is this really the kind of “nation building” Canadians thought they would get when they elected Mark Carney?
This webinar, featuring anti-poverty organizer John Clarke, peace activist Rachel Small, professor and researcher Shiri Pasternak and labour organizer Mostafa Henaway, will look at how Carney is fast-tracking a billionaires-first agenda that will only make the rich even richer – and how all of us can fight back.
What: National Webinar – “Billionaires VS. All of Us”
When: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
4pm PT / 5pm MT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET / 8pm AT / 8:30pm NT
Where: Zoom
John Clarke is a writer and retired organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).
Shiri Pasternak is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University whose research focuses on federal land claims policy in Canada. She is the co-founder and former research director at Yellowhead Institute, currently on a research leave from the Institute.
Rachel Small works as the Canada Organizer for World BEYOND War, a global grassroots organisation and network working to abolish war and the military industrial complex. She is a founding member of the Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition, and coordinates the Arms Embargo Now campaign.
Mostafa Henaway is a community organizer with Montreal’s Immigrant Workers Centre and a PhD candidate at Concordia University.
