Carney and truth?

March 19, 2025

Liberal Leader Mark Carney keeps showing he has a problem with the truth.  Liberal supporters looking for a rescue, take note.  Carney had a questionable history at the Bank of England, and left before his term ended.  In his first little speech in front of Rideau Hall as Prime Minister, he falsely tried to present the Cabinet as new.  All were old Trudeau stalwarts who are accountable for the disastrous Trudeau economic legacy.

In an interview, Carney falsely claimed he helped balance the budget with Paul Martin, a claim that is simply not true.  He also told untruths during the Liberal leadership clubhouse TV chat.  His assertion that he helped Paul Martin balance the budget was the most egregious of these.  He said, “It was my privilege to work with Paul Martin when he balanced the books and kept the books balanced.”  The reality is that Mark Carney never worked with Paul Martin, and played no role in balancing the books under the direction of Jean Chretien with political help from the Reform Party, leading to the first fully balanced budget in 30 years.  Carney wasn’t working for the federal government at that time, as he was still with Goldman Sachs.  He never did work with Paul Martin, the finance minister, as he left Goldman Sachs to become a Deputy Governor at the Bank of Canada in 2003.  In 2004, he took a position as associate deputy minister of finance, but by then, Paul Martin was prime minister, and the budget had long been balanced.

As chair of Brookfield Asset Management, Carney was complicit in the decision to move the company's head office from Toronto to the U.S., taking Canadian jobs with it.  Despite his role in this decision, he falsely claimed that because the decision taken by the board last fall was only formalized in January, he had nothing to do with it.  This blatant attempt to avoid accountability is a slap in the face to the Canadian public.

To insult voter intelligence, he claimed he saved Canada’s economy during the 2008-09 financial crisis.  He only played a partial role at arm's length from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his great Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.  Carney’s part was made easy due to the fiscal, budgetary, and political decisions made by Harper and Flaherty.  Carney played the damnable act of "stolen valor."

Carney has been very evasive about his many ownership conflicts of interest, dismissing all media questions by boasting that he placed ownerships into a blind trust before the date required.  In recent interviews, he pretended amnesia about what went into the trust.  During a persistent media scrum, when not wanting to answer with truth and disclosure, he responded with churlish contempt to the questioner to avoid substance, like a child caught in a lie.

The Liberal pattern of deception and self-interest seems to be repeating itself.  It has become a cultural conclusion that former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin, when he was Finance Minister, cheated about his 'trust', and also shaped Canadian law to favour his companies.  This pattern of Liberal leadership behaviour should serve as a warning to all Canadians.

Carney recently held a fake signing ceremony to end the carbon tax, perhaps trying to mimic President Trump’s signing of his infamous executive orders.  In the presence of some of his cabinet ministers, Carney signed a meaningless document for media consumption.  The actual paperwork had to be accomplished later to process a real Order in Council that only becomes viable if the Governor General signs.  It seems the media knows more about the Prime Ministerial process than the actual Prime Minister.

Without any electoral legitimacy, Carney now represents Canada abroad as Prime Minister.  We can only hope that voters will soon end his maneuvers.

Carney has made claims about having done things he hasn’t done or exaggerated his role while also denying moving the Brookfield HQ when the record shows otherwise. The man who is Prime Minister is showing he has a problem with the truth, just like Justin Trudeau.