'What Is a Conflict of Interest, Anyway?' The Imagined Thoughts of Mark Carney’s Ethics Disclosures

Does Mark Carney really have 574 conflicts of interest?

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he followed all the rules about disclosing his financial assets — now held in a blind trust — but Pierre Poilievre and Opposition MPs say his holdings are rife with conflicts of interest. Andrew Chang explains why Carney's connections to companies like Brookfield Asset Management and Westinghouse may or may not pose a problem, and how much of what Carney and the opposition claim is actually true. Images provided b

'What is a conflict of interest, anyway?' The imagined thoughts of Mark Carney’s ethics disclosures

The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner has released the full details of Mark Carney’s asset disclosures, and they reveal a prime minister who  appears to be  more constrained by conflicts of interest  than any other. Carney’s years of helping to oversee the trillion-dollar portfolio of Brookfield Asset Management gave him an equity stake over dozens of companies whose fortunes are likely to be directly impacted by the policies of his g…