Poilievre calls for update to conflict-of-interest law in latest swipe at Carney’s Liberal leadership bid [Video]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is proposing to drastically change financial disclosure rules for leadership candidates, even if they don’t hold public office — part of the party’s ongoing attacks on Liberal leadership front-runner Mark Carney.

Poilievre announced Friday that if elected prime minister, he’d amend the Conflict of Interest Act, which applies to ministers, parliamentary secretaries, other public office holders and parliamentarians.

The changes would require party leadership candidates to disclose their holdings to the ethics commissioner within 30 days of becoming an official candidate, and make them available to Canadians within 60 days, he said. 

Poilievre said a news conference that Canadians need to know about Carney’s “massive multimillion-dollar foreign holdings” now.

The proposal would also require future prime ministers and their cabinet to “sell assets that create conflicts of interests to stop politicians from ever using political office for their own benefit,” according to the Conservative Party. 

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