{"id":190109,"date":"2026-08-31T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/190109\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:16:11","slug":"cp-newsalert-carney-names-dominic-barton-as-chair-of-invest-in-canada-replaces-ceo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/190109\/","title":{"rendered":"CP NewsAlert: Carney names Dominic Barton as chair of Invest in Canada, replaces CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/d2ce52c74089e08e55f5765125dbf866e7dceb2ac4f2fa5b11e090304c0fdf06\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefit_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fcp_finance_889%2Fda3f5f1009651143afbfc0c34f11b814.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"\" height=\"582\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1f8hkhu loader\"\/><\/a> Dominic Barton waits to appear as a witness at the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld &#8211; The Canadian Press           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney is overhauling the leadership of the federal agency responsible for attracting foreign investment just weeks before a high-profile summit aimed at doing just that.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Carney announced today that Dominic Barton, the former Canadian ambassador to China and a well-known name in corporate Canada, will chair the board of directors for Invest in Canada.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Gurinder Grewal, an investment fund manager with experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors, will become chief executive of the agency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Grewal replaces outgoing CEO Laurel Broten, a former Ontario cabinet minister.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for the federal investment agency, announced on social media today that he would accept Broten&#8217;s resignation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The shakeup at Invest in Canada comes two weeks before Carney&#8217;s inaugural investment summit in Toronto, where he&#8217;ll assemble foreign investors and the heads of major domestic funds to pitch them on Canadian projects.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 31, 2026.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Craig Lord, The Canadian Press  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominic Barton waits to appear as a witness at the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,351,735,59908,7185,59909,4617,111,989,59709],"class_list":["post-190109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-carney","tag-dominic-barton","tag-dominic-leblanc","tag-grewal","tag-invest","tag-mark-carney","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-the-canadian-press-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}