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The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is returning a substantial donation it received seven years ago from a Chinese billionaire following a media report alleging Beijing attempted to curry favour with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation returns $140,000 donation from Chinese billionaire with ties to Beijing
According to a national security source, a Chinese diplomat and billionaire Bin Zhang discussed the possibility of the Liberals forming the government in 2015. The source says the diplomat instructed Zhang to donate $1 million to the Trudeau Foundation.
    By Alex Dhaliwal | March 02, 2023

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is returning a substantial donation it received seven years ago from a Chinese billionaire following a media report alleging Beijing attempted to curry favour with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has learned in recent days through the media that there was a potential connection between the Chinese government and a 2016 pledge of $200,000 to be received by the Foundation," said President and CEO Pascale Fournier in a written statement.

Fournier said the foundation is returning $140,000 of a $200,000 pledge. She said the foundation received two payments of $70,000 each but has yet to receive the rest. ...

According to The Globe and Mail, an unnamed national security source informed the publication of an alleged plot by the Chinese government to influence Trudeau after he became prime minister.

The Globe is not identifying the source who risks prosecution under the Security of Information Act. ...

Though Thomas did not divulge specifics of Chinese interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections — owing to the Security of Information Act — she did express concerns that whistleblowers leaked highly classified CSIS documents about Chinese election interference tactics.

Trudeau said he wants CSIS to find the leakers who risk prosecution under the same Act.  ...
Sure, JT, the whistleblowers are the problem, not your tidy relationship with China.
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Well, well, well, the entire board of Directors of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, including the CEO and President are resigning as of this morning.
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Trudeau Foundation president, board of directors resign
Charity's leadership cites controversy over Beijing-linked donor for the move
Richard Raycraft · CBC News · Posted: Apr 11, 2023 9:51 AM EDT | Last Updated: 21 minutes ago

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation's president and board of directors have resigned en masse, citing the charity's entanglement in the ongoing foreign interference controversy.

In a statement, the foundation said that a $200,000 donation in 2016 from a businessman linked to the Chinese government "has put a great deal of pressure on the foundation's management and volunteer board of directors, as well as on our staff and our community."

The charity announced last month that it would return the donation. The Conservatives had criticized the government over the matter, saying the donation compromised a government report on the integrity of the 2021 federal election.

"The circumstances created by the politicization of the foundation have made it impossible to continue with the status quo, and the volunteer board of directors has resigned, as has the president and CEO," the statement said.

The foundation is independent, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has no involvement with it.  ...
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Justin Trudeau with a Trudeau Foundation donor of the Chinese persuasion. No involvement, eh?


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Trudeau gave spies from Beijing $4.5M of our taxdollars:   "A Quebec charity suspected of hosting two secret Chinese “overseas police stations” has received more than $4.45 million from the Canadian government over the last three years."
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Secret Chinese police stations ‘funnel Canadian public funds’
David Millward
Sun, 21 May 2023

A Quebec charity suspected of hosting two secret Chinese “overseas police stations” has received more than $4.45 million (£2.65 million) from the Canadian government over the last three years.

According to the Montreal Gazette, the Service à la Famille Chinoise du Grand Montréal (SFCGM), which purports to provide support to the Chinese community, is really used by Beijing to monitor and intimidate its citizens in Canada.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) believe this is one of two secret police stations in Quebec, which has nearly 92,000 people of Chinese origin.

There has been growing anxiety about the network of secret Chinese police stations across the world, which are accused of routinely harassing exiles on behalf of Beijing’s authoritarian regime. ...
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Justin Castreau sure does like totalitarian Communist dictatorships. Must be why he's trying to create his own in the great white north.
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Fidel Trudeau strikes again...don't slay the dragon, shoot the messengers.
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