From private hospitals to insurance companies, Carney's Brookfield made major investments in private health care.

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Mark Carney told a crowd in Charlottetown, P.E.I. the other day that health care is big business in the United States. He should have said health care is big business for him given how deeply invested Carney is in private health care through his holdings and options in Brookfield Asset Management.

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Like most Liberals, Carney wants to portray himself as a champion of Canada’s public health system, but like so many champions, he’s also a hypocrite.

“In the U.S., health care is a big business, in Canada it is a right. It is right that my government will fight for and invest in it,” Carney said.

Investing in health care is something that Carney is very familiar with, just not in the way he was describing in Charlottetown. During his time at Brookfield, Carney oversaw a company that owns private hospitals, a health insurance and pharmaceutical benefits company, a collection of fat-loss clinics, an orthopedic care firm and a chain of pharmacies.

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