Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Blanchard.
Mr. Carney's conflicts involving Brookfield are vast by any objective standard. That is why the Ethics Commissioner saw fit to impose special compliance measures including the ethics screen that you, along with Mr. Sabia, administer, which includes, of course, 103 companies, most of which are Brookfield-related.
Mr. Sabia, in his testimony yesterday before this committee, referenced that the Ethics Commissioner personally told Mr. Carney that he should not be meeting with Brookfield. Yet, on August 11, only one month after the ethics screen was put in place, Mr. Carney was speaking with and taking photos with Sam Pollock, who is none other than the CEO of Brookfield Infrastructure, and who also just happened to serve on the board of Brookfield Asset Management when Mr. Carney was chair. Here we have the Ethics Commissioner telling Mr. Carney not to meet with Brookfield, and one month later, Mr. Carney is doing precisely that.
How do you explain that, Mr. Blanchard?