Poilievre wants Carney to cash out blind trust, says ethics screens insufficient
Poilievre wants Carney to cash out blind trust, says ethics screens insufficient
The Conservative leader contends that the prime minster could still benefit personally from decisions he is now making.
Just put the fries in the bag, Peter Polliver. Oh wait, your non-existent skill-set makes you ineligible for even that sort of job.
Poilievre just wants to get his name in the news media. Any excuse or frivolous point will do.
It is a blind trust fuckwit.... What is wrong with you... Just go away loser...
Ok but only if PeePee gets security clearance!
This is the most significant nit he can find to pick‽
Guy living in the government funded house for the leader of the official opposition, even though he is not the leader of the official opposition, suggests the PM isn't being ethical.
This isn't an endorsement for Pierre, but treating this as an controversy is misleading and ingenuine.
The leader of the opposition literally told Pierre to stay there. I watched this interview live when parliament resumed in May:
"Given that Mr. Poilievre hopes to be re-elected as a Member of Parliament in a few months and Prime Minister Carney promised to hold the byelection quickly, it would be more costly to taxpayers to move the family out and then right back into the residence," Scheer said in a statement to CBC News."
Given the treasure trove of criticisms to bring to light about Pierre Pollieve's policies, this obfuscates the importance of the real issues and makes people who oppose Pierre look foolish at best.
I get it. I also get that the reason this is an issue is because he lost a seat he held for 20 years and needs help from others to keep his job and house. He talks about personal responsibility and then asks for handouts when he loses. He talks about government elites and then uses his political status to get special treatment. It is an example of his hypocrisy.
And we want you to fuck off, PP.
And I want PP to fuck off, but sadly he doesn't seem like he's gonna stop suckling at the taxpayers' test anytime soon.
Why is this guy still around?
Carney was kind enough to let you squat in Stornoway, Pierre. Pretty ungrateful.
Polievre still doesn't understand how a blind trust works eh?
He understands it perfectly well, but he knows a large chunk of his base doesn't
I don't like that I agree with Poilievre here.
But it's unclear what the vesting schedule for Carney's Brookfield stock options is. Meaning that whoever is administering the 'blind' trust may not even have the ability to decide whether to exercise those options while Carney is in office.
I can't see how that's not a problem tbh
Edit: if you're gonna downvote this, then go ahead and tell everyone what a vesting schedule is, and what the vesting schedule for Carney's stock options is. I'll wait.
Fine by me. Most of the policies Carney proposed will support big companies and people with stocks.
If Carney sells his stocks and doesn't have investments he'll be like a significant proportion of Canadians.
Join us, rich boy.
(And Poilievre can sell his ten rental properties and donate his parliamentary pension to cats or something)
It’s a blind trust. Maybe they’ve already been sold. He doesn’t know. And because it’s in a blind trust, if he did want them sold he:
- Doesn’t get to tell the person managing what to do (buy or sell)
- Couldn’t be told by the manager whether they had been sold
This is as stupid as the excuses to not get a security clearance
The problem is, his stock options may not have vested, and Carney would be aware of the vesting schedule. It could be years before he (or whoever is managing the trust) could exercise those options and/or sell those shares.
In other words, the trust may not be 'blind' in practice.
This was the original criticism from reporters such as Rosie Barton, and many of Carney's supporters never bothered to try to understand the issue.