[1] Starting in 1990, Carle resumed his career as Chrétien's special executive assistant following his patron's return to politics when he became leader of the Liberal Party.
[1] During his time at the PMO, Carle was responsible for organizing the security for the November 1997 APEC summit in Vancouver that saw the RCMP crush demonstrators protesting against human rights abuses in China and Indonesia.
[3] On 7 August 2001, a report was issued by Judge Ted Hughes, which cleared Chrétien of wrongdoing at the APEC summit, but stated that Carle had improperly pressured the RCMP to attack the protesters.
[9] After leaving the PMO in 1998, Carle took up a post as vice-president responsible for corporate affairs at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDBC).
[12] Carle argued that his actions were justified because: "I felt it was a benefit for the bank to get an extra $125,000 in advertising without having to pay its own money, I did not do this in bad faith.
"[12] In September 2001, Carle became chief of operations at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, which received a doubling of federal sponsorship money by the Public Works ministry headed by Alfonso Gagliano, and then what the journalist Lawrence Martin called a highly unusual retroactive grant of $100,000.
Carle was involved in the firing of François Beaudoin, president of the BDBC, in 1999 after he attempted to call in the loan to the Grand-Mère Inn.