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Photo by HYUNGCHEOL PARK /PostmediaOTTAWA — Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper will deliver the closing speech of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first Canada Investment Summit on Tuesday.Enjoy the latest local, national and international news.Exclusive articles by Conrad Black, Barbara Kay and others. Plus, special edition NP Platformed and First Reading newsletters and virtual events.Unlimited online access to National Post.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword.Support local journalism.Enjoy the latest local, national and international news.Exclusive articles by Conrad Black, Barbara Kay and others. 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As part of the pitch, the government has circulated a list of over 160 projects that are seeking investments ranging from $25 million to hundreds of millions of dollars.Harper’s participation is meant to send the message that attracting foreign capital to Canada is a cross-partisan exercise, said the source who requested anonymity to speak freely.Harper, who speaks to Carney regularly since the latter was elected prime minister last spring, is the chairman of the Alberta Investment Management Corp, the province’s pension plan that manages over $200 billion.Over one decade since leaving politics, Harper remains a venerated figure in many conservative circles. So, his participation in Carney’s flagship investment summit will be perceived by many as a tacit endorsement of the Liberal government’s strategy to attract foreign investment and shift Canada’s economic dependency away from the U.S.Harper’s speech is expected to be open to media, a rarity for the former prime minister who has delivered few open-access speeches since leaving politics.Pension investment bodies will feature heavily during Carney’s Investment Summit that will be held Monday and Tuesday. The prime minister will deliver the opening speech for the evening and Harper will close it.John Graham, the president and CEO of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, is also expected to deliver a keynote speech.Among the 250 invited guests from more than 25 nations expected to attend are BlackRock Inc. chairman Larry Fink, Barclays PLC chief executive C.S. Venkatakrishnan and senior managers of pension funds and sovereign wealth giants from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) to Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management.A full list of attendees to the invitation-only event has not yet been released. But a high-level program circulated by the government shows there will be panels on critical mineral, defence, energy and artificial intelligence and “frontier” technology projects.National Post, with files from Financial Post’s Barbara Shectercnardi@postmedia.comOur website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our politics newsletter, First Reading, here. Join the Conversation This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.