Carney's friendship with Telesat CEO questioned over $2.3B military deal

Conservatives questioned Carney’s ethics safeguards over a $2.3-billion Telesat deal, while minister Evan Solomon’s ethics screen names its CEO as a friend.

Source: X (Mark Carney)

Prime Minister Mark Carney is being asked questions about his friendship with Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg after Telesat won a $2.3 billion military contract. Goldberg wasn’t on Carney’s public ethics screen.

Conservative MP Jamil Jivani raised the issue with Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein at Wednesday’s ethics committee hearing, pointing to their shared clubs, the photographs, and the fact that Goldberg attended Carney’s swearing-in.

Jamil Jivani@jamiljivani

Conflict of interest law isn't being applied to the Prime Minister's friends. Carney’s longtime friend Dan Goldberg runs Telesat, which just got a $2.3B federal contract. I asked the Ethics Commissioner why. I didn't get an answer.

11:55 PM · Oct 28, 2026 · 120K Views

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Jivani asked why Goldberg wasn’t named on Carney’s public conflict-of-interest screen.

“First of all, there’s no obligation under the Act to mention your friends or who they are,” Von Finckenstein said.

However, the Commissioner requires public officials, when asked, to identify any friends who may present a conflict of interest and to recuse themselves from any legally required decision that would benefit them.