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Sacha Trudeau denies Trudeau Foundation was target of foreign influence, says Chinese donor is ‘honourable’<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘We’re wasting our time on the notion of interference. I have seen no trace of it,’ Sacha Trudeau told MPs on the ethics committee<\/p>\n

Author of the article:Catherine L\u00e9vesque
\nPublished May 03, 2023<\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2013 Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau said the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was never the target of foreign interference and it is a waste of time to suggest that is the case.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the parliamentary committee on ethics, Trudeau pushed back against suggestions that the $200,000 deal he signed with Chinese billionaire Zhang Bin years ago for the foundation bearing his father\u2019s name was an attempt to influence his brother, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re wasting our time on the notion of interference. I have seen no trace of it,\u201d Sacha Trudeau told MPs during his testimony on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Trudeau, a filmmaker and author, served as a volunteer in the Trudeau Foundation for 20 years. He rarely gives interviews or offers public insight but insisted on appearing in front of the parliamentary committee in an effort to correct the record about the Trudeau Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there were a lot of things I felt needed to be corrected for the good work of the Foundation to continue and for all the doubts that are being thrown around about it to stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He particularly took issue with a recent Globe and Mail revelation that Canada\u2019s spy agency had captured a conversation between an official at one of China\u2019s consulates in Canada instructing Zhang to donate a large sum to the Trudeau Foundation for which he would be reimbursed.<\/p>\n

Trudeau claimed it was \u201cpoor journalism\u201d to rely on a single source, and challenged MPs who pressed him on the issue if they had themselves heard the CSIS wiretap.<\/p>\n

Trudeau told MPs he was first approached by law department officials from the University of Montreal about the donation in December 2013, which was a \u201clong way\u201d from any idea that his brother might one day form government or even become leader of the opposition.<\/p>\n

At the time, the Conservatives were in government and the NDP was the official opposition.<\/p>\n

Trudeau described the deal for the donation as a \u201cfour-way agreement\u201d between the foundation, himself as representative of the Trudeau family, the University of Montreal and the donor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main reason I signed is because Morris (Rosenberg, CEO of the foundation at the time) asked me to. I also had signing authority at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhang pledged to give the Trudeau Foundation $200,000, but the foundation ultimately only received two cheques of $70,000. Trudeau said that money was ultimately never spent. It has since been returned to the entity that issued the cheques.<\/p>\n

Chinese billionaire donor, Zhang Bin, by Trudeau\u2019s account, initially only wanted to donate to the University of Montreal in the same way that he had donated to the University of Toronto years earlier and did not want to \u201ccomplicate\u201d things by giving to the Trudeau Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no reason to doubt that this man never tried anything that would look like interference. So as far as I\u2019m concerned, he\u2019s an honourable man,\u201d said Trudeau.<\/p>\n

Trudeau also participated in the different committees that selected the four presidents of the foundation, including the outgoing head of the foundation Pascale Fournier.<\/p>\n

He laid the blame on her for the internal crisis in the foundation that led to her resignation and that of eight other members last month.<\/p>\n

Trudeau pushed back against Fournier\u2019s assertions last week that there were irregularities around the issuance of the charitable receipt to Millenium Golden Eagle International, owned by Zhang, and that a Beijing-affiliated group had instructed the foundation what to write on them.<\/p>\n

In his opinion, Fournier raised many questions that could have led people to believe there were interference attempts but said they were unfounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis donation came from a private company in good standing in Canada,\u201d argued Trudeau. \u201cThis is a company whose bank account is in the Bank of Montreal, governed by very strict rules on money laundering and all the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those arguments did nothing to convince Conservative MP Michael Barrett who later replied that drug dealers also have bank accounts, but that does not mean that \u201cthey\u2019re running reputable businesses\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trudeau also sided with the interim chairperson and founding member of the foundation, Edward Johnson, for any decisions on good corporate governance because of his decades of experience as corporate secretary of Power Corporation of Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis sense of decorum and respect is incomparable,\u201d said Trudeau.<\/p>\n

Fournier had previously said that she attempted to obtain an external audit about the donation, but that certain members of the board at the time refused to recuse themselves. Johnson is set to testify in front of the parliamentary committee at a later date.<\/p>\n

Trudeau said that what happened at the Trudeau Foundation was ultimately a \u201cmanagement crisis\u201d and said that \u201cthe good news is, it\u2019s over\u201d.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/sacha-trudeau-denies-trudeau-foundation-target-of-foreign-influence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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