Okay. I appreciate that, and if I could, I'll stay on the speaking list to the previous one as well.
I think my friend and colleague Mr. Morantz did a great job in outlining some of the aspects that have led us to the debate today. I won't get too much into the details, because there may be a chance later on in the meeting to talk about the backroom deal, the not giving notice, the fact that we had officials here.... It's just unfortunate. I know that quite often in the House we hear how the government is quick to say that committees are masters of their own domain, yet it certainly seems that sometimes there is a puppet master pulling the strings.
I won't get into the into the details of that, but I think it's very prescient to the issue that Mr. Morantz has brought forward. I'm going to first talk about this.... Some of my my colleagues may find this a little hard to believe, but I'm going to put the contemporary political situation aside for just a moment, if I could, and outline why I think there is relevance to adding Mr. Carney. I'll get to the politics of that in a moment.
If we look at Mark Carney's past and his history, certainly we see that finance and Mr. Carney have gone hand in hand throughout his entire life. It's interesting, because he has done terms not only as Governor of the Bank of Canada but also as Governor of the Bank of England. I know that there is a whole lot of commentary that's been provided, and certainly there were some very tumultuous times, I know, having been a member of the Canada-U.K. parliamentary friendship group and having some U.K. family members. In fact, congratulations to my cousin Les Fry, a former police inspector, who just won one of the unitary council seats. Inspector Fry just won election as an Independent in the Dorset County unified council.
Keeping in tune with some of what has transpired in the U.K. over the last number of years, I think it's interesting, because it builds up, and I'm not necessarily confident that they're positive attributes in a resumé, and I'll get into the politics, as I said here, in a moment. I would think that when it comes to being able to hear from a former governor of not only the Bank of Canada but of the Bank of England, in light of the issues we're talking about.... Just going through his resumé, I see that he has had experience in private sector finance in working with Goldman Sachs and, I believe, in a number of locations in their global offices that were certainly not locations that somebody in the middle class would move around to—Boston, New York, Toronto, Tokyo—but there certainly is a lot of experience there.
He spent, I believe, over a decade with Goldman Sachs and spent a number of years at the Department of Finance. Then what is interesting is that in the lead-up to Mr. Carney's appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada, I know there were a whole host of conversations.
In fact, it was a minority Parliament under a former prime minister, Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, that oversaw that appointment. Especially in a minority parliament, I know that Mr. Harper took this very seriously. In fact, he was able to govern, if you can believe this, Chair, not to go off on too much of a tangent.... Former prime minister Mr. Harper was able to govern for five years without a coalition arrangement and without a confidence and supply arrangement. He did a tremendous amount of good work for our country and set our economy on a good footing, including during what were some of the most trying times economically in a very long time. I think there's a certain level of relevance to the conversation on being able to have Mr. Carney questioned.
I did watch when he came to committee, which was probably two and a half years ago. I know that it was in the height of the pandemic, and I'm not sure that he would necessarily be thrilled to come back—