Invest in Canada’s chief executive resigns weeks before investment summit

OTTAWA — The top bureaucrat in charge of attracting foreign investment to Canada has quit weeks before a high-profile summit aimed at doing exactly that.

Laurel Broten, a former Ontario cabinet minister, is set to resign as chief executive officer of Invest in Canada as of Tuesday.

Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for the federal investment agency, announced on social media today he is accepting her resignation.

Over the course of nearly a decade in Ontario politics, Broten served in a variety of cabinet positions under former Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty.