Say what you want about Carney, but he seems to be better at evading those $100 fines than the last guy.
In a scathing statement this week, Democracy Watch urged Carney to fully divest his shares and stock options, arguing that Ottawa’s purported “screen” — which relies on Carney’s chosen staff to supposedly shield the prime minister from conflicted business decisions — actually “allows him to participate in, and hides his participation in, almost all decisions that affect his investments.”
“PM Carney’s so-called ‘blind’ trust isn’t blind at all,” the watchdog said. “He knows exactly what he put in, he chose his own trustee, can instruct them not to sell, and can receive updates at any time. On top of that, he owns stock options in Brookfield that he can’t sell for years, guaranteeing he stays tethered to these corporate interests.”
Democracy Watch cited the landmark 1987 Parker Commission on conflicts of interest, which concluded that top public officials must sell all investments outright and that blind trusts should be banned as ineffective “shams.”
Don’t expect anything but token interest in Canada’s most conflicted and fascist PM from the western world’s most conflicted news media. The Davos man is above that.
We don’t have law and order in Canada anymore. Instead we have blatant open corruption, the RCMP, the courts and the border guards are part of the corruption. We are being run by criminals in a corrupt regime and we can’t do a thing about it.
The link to “in a scathing statement” is NLA … I think it may be this:
https://democracywatch.ca/pm-carneys-ethics-screen-and-blind-trust-are-loophole-filled-unethical-smokescreens/
Some of the companies Marx Carnage is invested in are listed here, while “not financial advice” I’d say these companies aren’t going to tank as long as the PM maintains his interest lol…
Similar in mind to following Nancy Pelosi’s stock buys.
https://prciec-rpccie.parl.gc.ca/Lists/Declarations/Attachments/43657/Appendix%20Summary%20Statement%20-%20Annexe%20Declaration%20Sommaire.pdf
$100 fine for an ethics violation? that doesn’t pay for breakfast for 2 in Ottawa, OJ stating at $18 and it snowballs from there?
Maybe the problem isn’t that Marx is doing it, but that millions of Canadians are fine with it.
They voted for the Black-faced Retard three times and he was clearly corrupt.
#DominionDystopia
I’ve said multiple times, Trump keeps getting elected because the majority of Americans agree with him. The Liberals keep getting elected because the majority of Canadians agree with them.
Well no…the majority of Canadians don’t agree with the Liberals. Canada is horribly divided politically….and as a result will dissolve. There is absolutely nothing sacrosanct about the borders of a country….they do not last forever.
Well, I have to quibble with that statement. I don’t think they “agree with” the Liberals so much as they “defer to” the Liberals, and they’re not a “majority”, but they are a critical mass with which they can control the system as structured. But that said, your basic point is valid and important. The Liberals are mostly bogus, but to some extent they are a real force. It’s a mistake to overlook the real force and obsess on the bogus, even when that’s what we really object to.
Still won’t make a difference
“the landmark 1987 Parker Commission on conflicts of interest”
In 1987 the Conservatives were in power so that Commission report is no longer operational.
Tee hee.