Juno News CONFRONTS Mark Carney in Calgary
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Summary
Mark Carney is about to become the next Prime Minister of Canada, and he's running away from basic questions from the media. Why did he lie about moving Brookfield's headquarters to New York? Why are you using police resources to help yourself get elected, Mark?
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Mr. Carney, why did you lie about moving Brookfield's headquarters to New York?
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Why are you using police resources to help yourself get elected, Mark?
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Pian Bextie here for Juno News outside of Mark Carney's event, which lasted two hours.
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He dipped into Calgary just so that he could dip into the wallets of Calgarians,
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Liberal donors who are willing to help fund his campaign and really his coronation, I suppose,
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to become not just Liberal leader but Prime Minister of this country.
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And it shows. The RCMP are doing their level best to protect Mark Carney from answering any questions at all.
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He says he holds scrums with the media, but really, it's just the mainstream media
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and any media that they know will not ask prickly questions or media that will just talk about themselves and make no sense.
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Sir, my question is or my concern is I'm just concerned about the Team Canada.
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I love Canada. I have dual national, Pakistan and Canada.
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But the thing is, the way the things are going, I'm deeply concerned and observing and I appreciate Mr.
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Justin Trudeau dealing is very well and Mr. Duckford dealing is handling very well.
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So, sir, what's your different, what would be different, your strategy compared to the existing leader of Liberal?
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How are you going to handle after March 3rd the same?
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I knew if I wanted to ask some questions, I had to get creative.
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So I ended up waiting between two cars here at the Mark Carney event, squatted down for two hours,
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I knew Mark Carney was going to be protected by the police,
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but I didn't realize how handsy they would get when I got close to the future king of this country.
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Mr. Carney, why did you lie about moving Brookfield's headquarters to New York?
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How can Canadians trust you to stand up for this country when you lied about such simple things?
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Why are you using police resources to help yourself get elected, Mark?
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Mark Carney, again, running away from basic questions.
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Why did he lie about where the headquarters of Brookfield were?
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Why will he not become accountable to Canadians and tell us where his investments are?
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This isn't normally what we expect in a free country.
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Donald Trump, in the United States, for comparison, has had radical access to his Oval Office.
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Because the people deserve answers from the people that are in power.
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Mark Carney, who is just about to become the most powerful person in this country, thinks otherwise.
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Before he's even in power, he is using the tools of the state
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to protect himself from any sorts of accountability.
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Now, this kind of accountability isn't just answering questions from journalists like me.
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The accountability we need to see from Mark Carney is a detailed explanation of where his investments are,
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what boards he sits on, and where his conflicts of interest may lie.
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Mark Carney is bending the rules, not quite breaking them,
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but he's taking advantage of them to make sure that Canadians know as little as possible
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about this world banker before he is installed in the halls of power.
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It's a disgrace, and it's not how Canada should operate.