Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia — one of two men tasked with preventing Prime Minister Mark Carney from making decisions in office that would benefit his personal wealth — says the prime minister’s ethics screen is activated when there is “even a remote possibility that it is needed.”

Sabia, the country’s top bureaucrat, testified Wednesday evening in Ottawa as Conservative MPs on the House ethics committee continue to question whether Carney has profited from his policy decisions.

“From the moment a flag is raised, a screen is imposed,” Sabia told the committee.

The ethics screen was established earlier this year after Carney disclosed all his assets to the federal ethics commissioner, who administers the Conflict of Interest Act for public office holders.

Carney transferred a major

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