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Canada's Prime Minister is being asked to sell his investments because parliament can't figure out if he's governing Canada or protecting his own financial interests in China.
On April 25, 2026, Canada's Standing Committee on Ethics tabled a 79-page report recommending that Prime Minister Mark Carney, and all future prime ministers, be required to fully divest their investments within 60 days of taking office. The central finding is blunt: blind trusts, the arrangement Carney currently uses to hold his substantial stake in Brookfield Corporation, the global investment giant he helped lead before entering politics, are not sufficient to prevent conflicts of interest at the highest level of government.
The China dimension of this story is what makes it serious beyond standard political ethics debates. Testimony before the committee revealed that while Carney served as an economic advisor to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he traveled to Beijing in October 2024 and met with Beijing Mayor Yin Yong, a senior Chinese Communist Party official, on the sidelines of a financial forum. The CCP's own official readout of that meeting stated that Carney highlighted Brookfield's "keen interest in seizing development opportunities in China" and deepening cooperation in green finance, infrastructure investment, and fund management.
Six weeks after that meeting, Brookfield secured a $276 million loan from the Bank of China, collateralized against Brookfield's Shanghai real estate holdings, which had fallen sharply in value. Carney announced his candidacy for Liberal Party leadership roughly three months later.
The committee also heard testimony that Brookfield operates investment funds worth approximately $25 billion registered in Bermuda, and uses subsidiaries in tax havens and trust structures across multiple jurisdictions. When asked directly whether those same structures could shield a public office holder's financial interests from scrutiny under Canada's ethics laws, an independent tax accountability researcher testified with one word: "Absolutely."
The Conflict of Interest Commissioner confirmed that Carney's assets can continue to grow in value while he leads Canada, and that decisions he makes as Prime Minister affecting companies in his blind trust could directly benefit him financially. Neither administrator of his ethics screen knows the specific assets inside the fund tied to his bonus pay, potentially worth tens of millions of dollars.
Carney signed a strategic partnership with Beijing in January 2026, positioning China as Canada's key economic alternative in a shifting global order. He did this while holding undisclosed financial interests in a company that had just secured a nine-figure Chinese state bank loan and whose senior leadership had been explicitly encouraged by a CCP official to "seize opportunities" in China.
Parliament's ethics watchdog is now asking whether Canada's Prime Minister is making decisions for Canadians or for Brookfield. The fact that the question cannot currently be answered with certainty is itself the answer.
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Sam Cooper@scoopercooper
Parliament's Ethics Committee Calls on Carney to Sell Brookfield Stakes, Citing Reporting From The Bureau on His China Business Ties and CCP Official Meetings thebureau.news/p/parliaments-…
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