Carney asked about assets
After Carney’s speech, a reporter asked him if he’ll disclose the nature and value of the financial assets he put into a blind trust after winning the party leadership.
Carney called the framing of the question “odd,” and then explained why he felt that way.
“You don’t know. By definition you don’t know the assets because the trustees take over the responsibility,” he said. A trustee can buy or sell assets in the trust and the rules stipulate that Carney can’t know about those transactions.
Carney’s assets have been a point of attack from Poilievre, who accuses Carney of hiding “millions of dollars in interests that go against” the interests of Canada and Canadians.
The new PM said his assets were earned through employment as a public servant and in the private sector — and then took his own swipe at Poilievre.
“I would note as well that employment in the private sector is something that the leader of the Opposition has never experienced,” Carney said.
