On the second floor of the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, progressive economists, climate change experts and union representatives gathered for a meeting called the Elbows Up Economic Summit.

Overshadowed by the kick-off last week of the fall legislative session in the House of Commons just a ten minute walk away, the summit — on paper — was intended to chart a course to build a sovereign and sustainable economy. But in conversations in the hallways and speaker remarks from the stage, another theme emerged: a desperate fight for relevance as Prime Minister Mark Carney pursues a corporate-dominated, deregulatory agenda to build major projects, deepen trade with other countries and fend off economic aggression from the United States.

It’s a dynamic and tense moment for environmentalists watch

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