Opinion: Is this the beginning of the end for net-zero banking?

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Opinion: Is this the beginning of the end for net-zero banking?

In recent years, big-bank AGMs have been ideological horror shows. This year the mood was serious and the agendas were all-business

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In 2023, Terence Corcoran wrote a column characterizing that year’s interminably long RBC annual general meeting (AGM) as a “radical horror show” and “an activist-driven political storm.” I’ve been to enough AGMs over the years to attest that his experience was typical. In recent years, they have been, for the most part, hyper-ideological affairs demonizing Canada’s oil and gas industry.

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