Blanchard defends Carney’s ethics screen as a ‘rigorous process’

‘When Canadians hear that the prime minister has divested, I think what they expect is that there’s been a sale of those controlled assets,’ Conservative MP Michael Barrett told the committee.
During a two-hour ethics committee meeting on Nov. 20, Marc-André Blanchard, Prime Minister Mark Carney's chief of staff, was repeatedly questioned on how the prime minister's ethics screen is implemented.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s chief of staff is defending his boss’ decision not to sell his holdings in Brookfield Asset Management, even though the top public servant responsible for administering Carney’s conflict-of-interest system did so.

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