Toronto Star: Prime Minister Mark Carney‘s corporate past has prevented him from participating in at least 17 “situations” involving his own government, including discussions of a payout of up to $3.1 billion to support housing loans, the possible export of electricity to the United States, and the creation of this week’s new nuclear energy plan.
The revelation is contained in letters that the Privy Council Office (PCO) — the branch of the bureaucracy that supports the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) — sent to a parliamentary committee that probed the “screens” that Carney set up last year to protect himself from conflicts of interest…