Canada's Prime Minister is being asked to sell his investments

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.

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.

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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.

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