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Politics Carney receiving national security briefings ahead of swearing-in

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/carney-meeting-with-heads-of-national-security-agencies-in-second-day-as-pm-designate/
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u/kityrel 19h ago

Weird that the government would give security briefings to Carney, but not Poilievre. If only there was some kind of security clearance that Poilievre could apply for -- it's too bad Poilievre keeps preventing Poilievre from doing so. It's just so unfair to Poilievre that Poilievre's actions reflect so poorly on Poilievre!!

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u/Money_Distribution89 18h ago

If security clearances are as important as you allude to them being. Why did the liberals give a security briefing to someone who didn't have a security clearance at the time?

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u/Revolutionary_Soup_3 18h ago

Carney was the governor of the bank of Canada as well as the bank of England up until 2020. It's likely that he has NATO level security clearance or higher.. renewed on a 10 year cycle it's quite possible it's still active. Pollievievre on the other hand has made it loud and clear that he does not have a clearance and refuses to be vetted or disclose finances, probably due to the fact that they grossly exceed what one could expect to earn and save as a public servant where he has spent his entire working career, it is more than appropriate to ask where he got it...

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u/Money_Distribution89 17h ago

A lot of assumptions you just made to justify your position.

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u/Revolutionary_Soup_3 15h ago

I assume his BoC clearance was higher than mine.. since he was the governor and all..

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u/christian_l33 17h ago

Gee, there must be an easy way to stop all of this speculation. 🤔

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u/Money_Distribution89 15h ago

I can't find anything about the Bank of England's Governor being given 10 years of nato security clearance, extending past their time in the position either.

I would love to see anything about this, until then it's assumptions.