Mark Carney finally comes clean…or does he?

We all got fooled by a flim-flam multimillionaire

By Lindsay Prescott

We now know that Prime Minister Carney isn’t at all like the rest of us. He owns millions of shares in at least 570 different companies in the oil, military, high tech and other industries. And 91 per cent of his shares are said to be invested in American companies, not Canadian.

Thus, we now know why he can’t keep his “elbows up” when dealing with President Trump. Maybe that’s why the roaring lion we saw during the election has become a lapdog pussycat.

Also, should we now ask if his shares in Amazon and Apple affected the decision to cancel a new Canadian Digital tax that would have affected them, among others. We know that he benefitted personally by that decision because his “blind trust” hasn’t sold those shares yet. Did he leave the Cabinet room when that decision was made?

This is a very important question for Canadians and especially for Liberal voters who were mesmerized into voting for someone they knew nothing about.

Also, during the election, Carney made it clear that Canada was on its way to a future with no oil, but we now know that he owns shares in Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum and Phillps 66, some of the biggest oil companies in the US. Is it just no oil for the rest of Canadians and not for Carney?

NDP voters especially, who flocked to Carney as an anti-oil messiah must now be wondering if they were duped by someone who says one thing and does something else.

And what about Carney’s ownership of military production firms Northrup Grumman and Booz Allen? Anti-war and pro Palestine NDPers wouldn’t have voted for him if they had known.  The NDP vote wouldn’t have dropped from over 3 million to 1.2 million and their number of seats from 24 to 7.

And what about Liberals in the mold of former Liberal leader Lester Pearson who won a Nobel Peace Prize and called Canada, “the Land of the Peacemaker”? Carney, who will make money from wars, might have kept many Liberal voters at home.

The results on election night would have been very different. The Conservatives might have had the most seats and a chance to form the government.

And then there’s Carney’s stocks in Pfizer and Moderna, who made billions selling Covid shots to governments around the world, including Canada.  While inquiries are taking place elsewhere, about the contents of secret contracts they signed with governments, Canada is silent.

Also, during the election, he praised Westinghouse Nuclear and Modulaire prefab housing, two companies he has shares in, that might benefit down the road from government decisions. But we didn’t know. He didn’t tell us

We all got fooled by a flim-flam multimillionaire who lives by different rules than the rest of us.

And now Pierre Poilievre is telling us, “I warned you.”  He’s calling for a new Canadian ethics law that has teeth. Not one that allows someone to be elected Prime Minister and then tell us months later about all his conflicts after he’s elected.

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Lindsay Prescott is a former Liberal who is now an independent.