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Questions swirl over Mark Carney's father's role in NWT Indian school

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Liberal Leader Mark Carney fielded no questions Friday over his father's role as principal of an Indian day school in Canada ’s north.

Robert J. Carney was principal of the Joseph Burr Tyrrell school , formerly the Fort Smith Federal Day School in the Northwest Territories .

The elder Carney began his role in 1962 three years before Mark Carney was born and he died in 2009 .