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AccountabilityMay 28, 20267 min read
The Prime Minister Still Holds $6.8 Million in Brookfield Stock Options. Parliament's Ethics Committee Says a Blind Trust Isn't Enough.
Mark Carney joined Brookfield Asset Management in 2020 as Vice Chair and Head of ESG and Impact Investing, later becoming Chair of the Brookfield Asset Management board. He held those roles until January 2025, immediately before launching his successful Liberal leadership campaign and becoming Prime Minister in March 2025. According to Brookfield's 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Carney held 409,300 unexercised Brookfield stock options worth approximately US$6.8 million as of December 31, 2024. Brookfield is one of the largest residential property owners in Canada, with 31,211 residential units in the country (part of a North American portfolio of over 73,000 single-family lots). Upon becoming Prime Minister, Carney placed his assets in a blind trust and established a conflict-of-interest screen — administered by his chief of staff Marc-André Blanchard and Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia — intended to wall him off from official decisions involving Brookfield and the payment-processing firm Stripe (on whose board he also served). His ethics filing lists more than 100 entities under the conflict-of-interest screen. In April 2026, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics published a report recommending that prime ministers be required to fully divest their investment portfolios on taking office, not merely place them in a blind trust. Democracy Watch has characterized the blind-trust-and-screen arrangement as "loophole-filled." This article documents the financial relationship, the conflict-of-interest architecture, the specific concerns raised about it, and Carney's defenses — sticking strictly to the documented financial record.

The Prime Minister Still Holds $6.8 Million in Brookfield Stock Options. Parliament's Ethics Committee Says a Blind Trust Isn't Enough.

Mark Carney joined Brookfield Asset Management in 2020 as Vice Chair and Head of ESG and Impact Investing, later becoming Chair of the Brookfield Asset Management board. He held those roles until January 2025, immediately before launching his successful Liberal leadership campaign and becoming Prime Minister in March 2025. According to Brookfield's 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Carney held 409,300 unexercised Brookfield stock options worth approximately US$6.8 million as of December 31, 2024. Brookfield is one of the largest residential property owners in Canada, with 31,211 residential units in the country (part of a North American portfolio of over 73,000 single-family lots). Upon becoming Prime Minister, Carney placed his assets in a blind trust and established a conflict-of-interest screen — administered by his chief of staff Marc-André Blanchard and Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia — intended to wall him off from official decisions involving Brookfield and the payment-processing firm Stripe (on whose board he also served). His ethics filing lists more than 100 entities under the conflict-of-interest screen. In April 2026, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics published a report recommending that prime ministers be required to fully divest their investment portfolios on taking office, not merely place them in a blind trust. Democracy Watch has characterized the blind-trust-and-screen arrangement as "loophole-filled." This article documents the financial relationship, the conflict-of-interest architecture, the specific concerns raised about it, and Carney's defenses — sticking strictly to the documented financial record.