CPP Investments CEO John Graham delivers remarks at the Canada Investment Summit
TORONTO, Sept. 15, 2026 /CNW/ — On Tuesday, September 15, 2026, John Graham, President & CEO of Canda Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), delivered the following remarks at the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, Ontario.
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Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to echo the Prime Minister and thank all of you for joining us at the Canada Investment Summit. It is great to see so many partners and friends in the room.
Like many of you, I have attended several investment summits around the world. They are a good opportunity for a host to showcase an economy’s dynamism, its opportunity set, and the message of being “open for business.” But until today, I had never attended one in Canada.
Seeing the energy and enthusiasm here in this room, I would say that today is exactly the right day for the event.
Over the past couple of years, my conversations about Canada with global investors has changed. Sure, investors respect the country, but hadn’t seriously considered deploying capital at scale. But lately, the question I get is: what are we missing in Canada?
Investors are curious about Canada. This Summit’s practical job is to convert that curiosity into interest, and that interest into real action. I am confident we can do just that.
The central question on everyone’s mind: why should a global investor allocate more capital to Canada than before? My answer to that: Canada has not fundamentally changed overnight. But the investment case has.
The world’s priorities have shifted. Canada’s relative strategic value has increased, and Canada is responding with renewed ambition, urgency and partnership.
For decades, capital allocation was optimized around efficiency: global supply chains, low interest rates, abundant liquidity, and lowest-cost production. That is no longer the whole equation.
As investors reassess risk and opportunity, they place a much higher premium on resilience, secure supply chains, reliable energy, trusted partners, policy predictability, and geopolitical alignment. These are no longer nice-to-haves. They are a must have. And, they are Canadian strengths.
At CPP Investments, we invest in more than 50 countries and weigh Canadian opportunities against those everywhere in the world. Our mandate is to maximize long-term returns without undue risk for more than 22 million Canadians. We are not required to invest in Canada. We invest here when an opportunity earns its place on a risk return basis.
We ask the same questions of any investment destination.
