As Canadians recommitted to supporting the local economy in the face of a mounting trade war with the United States, social media users spread a video of Prime Minister Mark Carney supposedly promoting investment in a cryptocurrency tied to the country’s freshwater reserves. But the clip of Carney is manipulated — he never made such an endorsement — and experts said tying the coin to online attention makes the investment highly volatile.

“Canada will become richer than America by 2030 due to our freshwater and we are committing every dollar of it to the World Water Reserve,” Carney appears to say in an August 24, 2026 Facebook reel. “And the rest of the world can get in by visiting wwr.global.”

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