Mark Carney was not happy with the CBC's Rosemary Barton when she pressed him on potential conflicts of interest stemming from his decades in the private sector.
The prime minister accused her of acting with "ill will" and "trying to invent new rules."
"[As someone] who spent most of his life in the private sector, there's no possible conflict of interest in your assets?" Barton asked. "That's very difficult to believe."
Carney responded by asking her to "look inside yourself."
"You start from a prior of conflict and ill will," he said. "I have served in the private sector, I have stood up for Canada, I have left my roles in the private sector at a time of crisis for our country."
Carney claimed he was "complying with the rules that parliament has laid out and the responsibilities and ethics commissioner," and suggested that Barton was "trying to invent new rules."
Just moments earlier, Carney was asked by the Globe and Mail's Stephanie Levitz about his assets.
After refusing to tell the Canadian people what assets he placed in a blind trust, the former businessman shifted the focus to Pierre Poilievre, namely the fact he still hasn't received security clearance.
"What possible conflict would you have, Stephanie?" Carney asked when Levitz grilled him on the issue at hand.
The Conservatives were quick to slam Carney over his lack of answers.
"The types of assets he was entitled to through Brookfield Asset Management are very illiquid and cannot be easily offloaded or sold," the party said in a statement. "Carney knows exactly what assets were put in his blind trust just a few days ago."
They called on Carney to disclose "the full and robust Conflict of Interest Management Plan" presented to the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, arguing that "the Canadian people deserve to know exactly what Mark Carney is conflicted on."
The Conservatives produced a list of possibilities, including nuclear energy, carbon capture and storage, wind turbines, natural gas, heat pumps, battery energy storage, real estate projects, green hydrogen, Canadian pension funds, income tax laws, and real estate.
