I went back and checked the Air Lease deal against public filings. Brookfield and its partners completed the Air Lease acquisition on April 8, 2026, twenty-eight days before the Mirabel ceremony. The ethics screen Carney set up is administered by his own chief of staff, not an independent officer. The Conflict of Interest Act still allows a PM to craft sweeping general policies that benefit a company, as long as it also benefits others, which Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch calls a loophole big enough to drive a fortune through. EDC, backed by Canadian taxpayers, confirmed it is "a longstanding financier of Airbus aircraft" and is in discussions to support the AirAsia deal. That is the sentence worth reading twice.