Mark Carney just used a UN stage to salute Canada’s new “Ocean Envoy.” That’s his wife, Diana Fox Carney The government created the title last week. A Cabinet minister appointed her. She will chair a federally hosted international conference in Halifax. Ottawa says the post is unpaid Fine — then stop pretending this is just another volunteer gig Canadians don’t need a payroll stub to see the problem. A prime minister should not have his spouse as the public face of a government ocean agenda he is simultaneously funding and negotiating. That is an appearance of conflict and it stinks Most of the press have shrugged and printed “unpaid.” That is not scrutiny. That is a press release with a byline If the role matters enough for the PM to name-check it at the UN, it matters enough to ask why it went to his wife