Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is caught in a lie yet again, this time about his alleged resignation from multiple different international board positions.
“I have resigned all of my positions. I have resigned all of my positions, full stop,” said Carney when he announced his candidacy on January 16. He repeated the claim after this week’s English-language leaders debate on Tuesday.
“I’m all in,” said Carney on his leadership bid. If he wins the March 9 Liberal racism he will become by default Canada's next prime minister in place of Justin Trudeau.
Under Canadian law, it is a conflict of interest for a sitting politician — especially a party leader or head of state — to sit on a board.
Yet, six weeks and counting after his candidacy announcement, Carney has maintained at least five of his globalist board positions, according to the National Post.
The outlet followed up with each of the nearly two dozen organizations linked to the Liberal frontrunner, and found a troubling trend: Carney was lying.
Carney maintains board positions, in some cases as chair or president, of the Group of Thirty, Chatham House, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), Blavatnik School of Government and Harvard University.
Carney appears on the website as chair of the international Group of Thirty, and a spokesperson on Friday confirmed Carney still maintains the role.
Carney is also listed on the Chatham House website as president of the board.
“We can indeed confirm that Mr. Carney is a current President at Chatham House,” Kirsten Rousseau, press officer at The Royal Institute of International Affairs, told the Post this week.
He is also still listed as a board member of PIIE, with VP Maggie Chai confirming as much.
“To be frank with you, we simply haven’t been in contact with Mark Carney in the last few months to discuss his role as member of the Peterson Institute’s Board,” Chai told the Post.
“The Peterson Institute’s usual practice is when a Board member runs for a political office, they resign. If they win for public service, they can also choose to go on leave,” she added.
Carney is also still a member of the international advisory board at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, as confirmed by the school’s spokesperson.
The list continues. Carney has also maintained his position on Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. The school told the Post Carney told them he plans to remain on the bord until March 9 — presumably in anticipation of winning the leadership race and becoming prime minister.
Carney on January 16, and also after the debate this week, vehemently protested the notion he would be involved with any conflicts of interest.
“It’s very simple,” said Carney, stating he’d resigned from Brookfield Asset Management, Bloomberg and Stripe that same day.
“I am no longer on the board of any of my commercial activities,” he added.
“I have resigned all of my positions. I have resigned all of my positions, full stop.”
On Tuesday night when pressed by reporters, he reaffirmed his statements, and even built on these claims.
“I ceased to be a number of other things,” he said, adding that includes United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Change.
Carney “did not resign” from the UN role, said UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. His contract expired at the end of 2024 and was not renewed.
“I resigned all of my positions because I’m all in for Canada, all in for this leadership, all in during this time of crisis to build our great country,” claimed Carney this week.
Speaking of Oxford, Carney’s lying doesn’t end there. He has previously bragged about helping former Finance Minister Paul Martin balance the federal budget in 1998, according to the Toronto Sun.
The problem is, Carney wasn’t even in Canada at the time. He was studying economics at Oxford.
“He became a federal bureaucrat in 2004, several years later, so that timeline doesn’t add up,” said Conservative MP Michael Barrett at a press conference Friday.
Carney has not commented on being caught in any of these lies, however his office did issue a statement on the latter.
“He was referring to his work in government while Paul Martin was prime minister and kept on balancing the books,” read a vague emailed statement to the Sun.
