Mark Carney’s Oath to King Charles

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Oh, Canada!

Is Canada a nation or a colony?  And who does Mark Carney work for?

Text of Mark Carney’s Swearing in Ceremony

I Mark Carney do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty King Charles III King of Canada his heirs and successors.

I Mark Carney do solemnly and sincerely swear that I shall be a true and faithful servant to his majesty King Charles III as a member of his majesty’s Privy Council for Canada. I will in all things to be treated debated and resolved in Privy Council faithfully honestly and truly declare my mind and my opinion.  I shall keep secret all matters committed and revealed to me in this capacity or that shall be secretly treated of in counsel generally in all things I shall do as a faithful and true servant ought to do for his majesty.

I Mark Carney do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear that I will truly and faithfully and to the best of my skill and knowledge execute the powers and trust reposed in me as prime minister.

Oath of Allegiance:
“I, [Name], do swear (or solemnly affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles the Third, King of Canada, His Heirs and Successors. So help me God.”
(Note: The phrase “So help me God” is omitted if the individual chooses to affirm rather than swear.)

Oath of Office:
“I, [Name], do solemnly and sincerely swear (or affirm) that I will truly and faithfully, and to the best of my skill and knowledge, execute the powers and trusts reposed in me as Prime Minister of Canada. So help me God.” (Again, “So help me God” is optional for affirmations.)

Oath of the Members of the Privy Council (if the Prime Minister-designate is not already a Privy Councillor): “I, [Name], do solemnly and sincerely swear (or affirm) that I shall be a true and faithful servant to His Majesty King Charles the Third, as a member of His Majesty’s Privy Council for Canada. I will in all things to be treated, debated and resolved in Privy Council, faithfully, honestly and truly declare my mind and my opinion. I shall keep secret all matters committed and revealed to me in this capacity, or that shall be secretly treated of in Council. Generally, in all things I shall do as a faithful and true servant ought to do for His Majesty. So help me God.”

Who is Mark Carney?

  • Governor of the Bank of Canada (2008–2013)
  • Carney was chairman of the Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on the Global Financial System from July 2010 until January 2012.
  • Carney was a member of the Group of Thirty, an international body of leading financiers and academics, and of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum.
  • Carney attended the annual meetings of the Bilderberg Group in 2011, 2012 and 2019
  • On November 4, 2011, Carney was named chairman of the Basel-based Financial Stability Board, which coordinates international financial regulatory authorities.
  • Governor of the Bank of England (2013–2020)
  • In 2020, Carney served as one of many informal advisors to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, advising him on the government’s COVID-19 economic response.
  • In October 2020, Carney was vice chairman at Brookfield Asset Management, where he led the firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) and impact fund investment strategy.
  • In 2020, Carney launched the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets—an initiative to increase trading of voluntary carbon offsets— with Bill Winters as Group Chief Executive. The TSVCM is sponsored by the Institute of International Finance. Taskforce members include more than “40 leaders from six continents with backgrounds across the carbon market value chain”, including representatives from the Bank of America, BlackRock, Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance, BNP Paribas, BP, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Tata Steel, Total, IHS Markit, and LSE. In a December 3, 2020 Financial Times article, Carney said that the voluntary global carbon offset market was an “imperative” to help reduce emissions. The Times article cited Carney saying London would likely host the “new pilot market for voluntary carbon offsets” that could be “set up” by December 2021.

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