Carney goes back when she is questioned about financial assets

On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carley rejected the journalist’s questions about his financial participation during a press conference.

Carryy announced last week that he had put his financial assets in a blind trust to protect himself from any conflicts of interest.

But this did not prevent the conservatives from asking the new Prime Minister to publicly reveal his financial participations, suggesting that Canada could be in an election campaign before Carney’s activities are publicly disclosed.

Blind trust means that Carney’s financial activities are managed by a trustee that has the legal authority to manage them, but to which it is forbidden to seek his contribution. Carney would not know what’s in his Blind Trust portfolio, but he would know what those goods were before they were disinved.

Based on the current ethical rules of the government intended to protect against conflicts of interest, Carley had 60 days to reveal its assets to the ethical commissioner after sworn and another 60 days before such information became public.

Asked on Monday if he revealed what financial participations had before being put in blind trust, Carley said they had passed the expectations of the current rules and to be held according to a different standard.

“I am respecting the rules of the ethical commissioner, passing through the processes and all those necessary things,” he said, before going around to emphasize that the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre refused to obtain his security authorization.

When he is pressed by journalists for his activities, Carley rejected and said the questions are based on an assumption of “bad will”.

“Your line of questions is trying to invent new rules. I am respecting the rules that Parliament has established and … I will continue to respect those rules,” he said.

On Sunday, the conservative ethical critic Michael Barrett wrote an open letter to Carney, inviting to reveal his goods.

“The Canadians deserve to know that their prime minister is making decisions in the national interest and ensure that they are free from any influential corporate influence,” wrote Barrett.

Before entering politics, Carley was part of the Board of Directors of some prominent companies, non -profit and philanthropic organizations, including one of the largest Canadian companies, Brookfield Asset Management (BAM).

According to the company’s registers, in April 2024, Carley held about 41,000 deferred share units (DSU), which can be collected for the ordinary Bam shares at a later time. The stock is currently exchanged at approximately $ 82 per action, which means, on paper, the DSU ones could be worth more than $ 3 million.

Carney has also kept 303,049 Stock Options since last year, which in turn can be liquidated the next decade.

The company evaluated these options at $ 1.7 million USA starting from April last April, but could be worth much more than that later.