Canada-China investigative journalist for The Bureau Sam Cooper has uncovered evidence Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is influenced by an “elite network” of foreign entities.
Carney is the frontrunner of the leadership race, and is an apparent sweetheart of the Liberal party, including government-funded state media, the CBC. If he wins the March 9 vote, he will replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and waltz into the Prime Minister’s Office — despite never being elected as a politician in any capacity
Cooper, author of Wilful Blindness, says Carney is tangled up in “a constellation of global influencers deeply tied” to China’s trade and finance arms, particularly the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB),” and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Beside Carney in that tangled web is Trudeau, which Cooper calls an “undebatable” fact."
The two are “so thoroughly woven together through global forums like the WEF that they are indistinguishable,” said Cooper in an expose published on Substack.
“And while Carney seeks to distance himself from Trudeau’s unpopular record, his closest allies remain the same WEF-linked figures who helped shape Trudeau’s policies.”
Among those named in Cooper’s expose are former Canadian ambassador to China Dominic Barton, Trudeau campaign backers Mark Wiseman and Gerald Butts, former CBC Power & Politics host Evan Solomon and Jin Liqun of AIIB, who is reportedly a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operative and former Red Guard.
The common denominator among these figures is their stated goals: “consolidating financial power across borders to coordinate carbon-reduction policies and progressive social outcomes,” Cooper wrote.
Despite Canadians and people from other Western countries being concerned with issues like mass immigration, energy policy and housing affordability over climate change, Carney has been a global champion of the issue, and continues to push it in his campaign.
In 2020, Carney stepped down from the Bank of England to become the United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance.
Now, as LIberal leadership candidate — and frontrunner — Carney champions climate change activism and has embedded it into his energy policies with an “urgency” that demands “high-level solutions.”
“Ones driven by big private capital and partnerships with Chinese institutions like the AIIB,” says Cooper, linking the WEF, of which Carney is a well-known affiliate, to the financial arms of the CCP.
While head of the Bank of England over the course of 10 years, Carney “integrated climate risk into financial stability assessments, positioned himself as a leader in climate-focused central banking and materially deepened the UK’s financial ties with China,” wrote Cooper.
In 2013, Carney signed an agreement between the Bank of England and the People’s Bank of China that would allow banks in England to clear the Chinese currency, Renminbi.
“Helping the internationalization of the Renminbi is a global good, consistent with London’s historic role,” said Carney in a speech at the time.
Jin came into the picture after Carney partnered with Michael Bloomberg and co-founded net-zero initiative GFANZ. The AIIB is an institution owned by the CCP whose “green” infrastructure projects in Asia “matched Carney’s vision for climate finance at scale.” says Cooper.
“The world cannot address climate change without finance,” said Carney in 2022 during a speech announcing the initiative.
“Similarly, the global financial system cannot do its fair share without the leadership of the Asia-Pacific financial institutions. Our new APAC Network … will bring Asian finance to the heart of GFANZ to help solve this global challenge.”
“At a time when our world is facing unprecedented challenges, it is increasingly important to strengthen our linkages across borders, deepen our resolve, and resist the urge to turn inward. I am delighted to join GFANZ and contribute multilateral perspectives to explore the huge potential in net-zero transitions,” added Jin.
Carney and Jin in 2024 also announced a climate financing initiative in Brazil.
However, Canadian and former AIIB employee Bob Pickard, who fled China in 2023 in fear of his safety, told the CBC at the time it was all about making China “look good,” and indicated AIIB is not really concerned about “sustainability,” but rather was looking to infiltrate global initiatives with CCP influence.
“All we’re doing, with our membership in this bank, is making China look good as a country able to do multilateralism. We are effectively supporting the Chinese image campaign to show that they are ready to assume world leadership,” said Pickard.
Pickard told The Bureau in 2023 it gets worse.
“The president of the bank [Jin Liqun] and the president’s office knew that I had concerns about the Communist Party and the invisible power the CCP wielded in the bank,” said Pickard.
“President Jin himself [is] a former Red Guard. [A] troika of people in the president’s office called all the everyday operating shots.”
In addition to Carney’s ties to Beijing and the WEF, Carney is being put through the ringer back in Canada for lying about his involvement in moving Brookfield Asset Management to the US in the face of President Donald Trump’s tariff threat.
Carney after Tuesday night’s leadership debate told reporters he had no involvement in moving Brookfield to New York City.
Carney said he resigned from his role as chair of the company when he announced his candidacy to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader on January 16.
However, paperwork shows Carney orchestrated the move in late 2024 — days after Trump first threatened the tariffs.
“I'll just correct a few factual things,” said Carney on Tuesday.
“I was chair of Brookfield Asset Management. I ceased to be chair on [January] 15, when I announced for leadership.”
Carney added that’s when he “ceased to be chair” of Bloomberg, “ceased to be” United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action Finance, and “ceased to be a number of other things.”
“So I resigned all my positions because I am all in for Canada, all in for this leadership,” he said.
“Second, the formal decision of the board happened after I ceased to be on the board.”
Yet, the decision took place last year while Carney was on the board, as documents uncovered by the Tories indicate.
“I do not have a connection with Brookfield Asset Management. No longer have a role, obviously, as I resigned in the middle of January,” said Carney.
As Conservative Shadow Minister for Ethics and Accountable Government Michael Barrett pointed out in a press conference Wednesday morning, Mark Carney has repeatedly maintained Brookfield’s decision to move to the US was made after his resignation.
Yet, documents reviewed by the Western Standard state otherwise — including letters to shareholders signed by Carney himself. A note dated December 1, 2024 outlines the details of the move to New York and calls a shareholders’ meeting for January 27. The note was written by Carney.
The letter indicates Carney personally voted for the relocation to the US and encouraged shareholders to do the same.
An article from Global Newswire on October 31, 2024 confirmed Brookfield “has now changed its head office to New York.”