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Anita Anand

Foreign Affairs. PSPC 2019 to 2021

Her department gave her spouse's employer's lab a contract, LifeLabs, up to $111.0M. She stepped out of the file six days later.

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Frank Baylis: $237.0M ventilator contract, sole-sourced; committee evidence, 16 Nov 2020

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A LifeLabs laboratory's sign on Woodbine Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Dec 20, 2019

Photo: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Scalable Grid Engine, CC0

Oct 15, 2026

Anand's department gave her spouse's employer's lab a contract.

She stepped out of the file six days after the award.

In June 2021 Anita Anand's procurement department gave LifeLabs, which said that year it was owned by OMERS Infrastructure, a border-testing contract with a ceiling of up to $111.0M. Six days later she recused herself. Her spouse works at OMERS Infrastructure Management. On the public registry, LifeLabs first appears on her conflict screen on 12 May 2022. The year before, her department signed for ventilators from a firm with a former Liberal MP's company as its subcontractor, and she told MPs she "couldn't pick him out of a crowd".

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The Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place, Toronto, Mar 11, 2012

Photo: Secondarywaltz, CC BY-SA 3.0

Oct 15, 2026 · with Mark Carney

Carney kept his Brookfield millions. His own people guard the wall.

6 screens by November 2025, 4 of them undisclosed.

Mark Carney took office holding Brookfield stock options and deferred shares worth millions, the Globe reported in July 2025. The wall meant to keep them out of his decisions is run by his own chief of staff and his own deputy minister, and by November 2025 it had been raised 6 times, 4 of them undisclosed. Around him: a friend and early donor made ambassador to Washington, a jet whose food bill came to $524.0K as a taxpayers' group reported it, and his wife handed a national title.

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Photo credits

Card photo: A LifeLabs laboratory's sign on Woodbine Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Dec 20, 2019. Photo: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Scalable Grid Engine, CC0.
François-Philippe Champagne: US-Canada Summit, Toronto, Apr 4, 2023. Photo: Eurasia Group, CC BY 2.0.
Card photo: The Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place, Toronto, Mar 11, 2012. Photo: Secondarywaltz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mark Carney: Special address, World Economic Forum, Davos, Jan 21, 2026. Photo: World Economic Forum, CC BY 4.0.