The Université de Montréal also received a donation from the same Chinese regime-affiliated billionaires that has now taken down the leadership of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation, but it told an entirely different story in 2014 about how everything fell into place.
While Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) information recently leaked to the press alleges the donation was spearheaded by the Chinese regime in a bid to influence Canada’s potential future prime minister Justin Trudeau, the university explained at the time that the gift stemmed from a Chinese student’s wonderful experience on campus.
An article published in the university’s UdeM Nouvelles publication in November 2014 explains how a young Chinese student studying in the Faculty of Law in 2013 was so enthused about his experience that his parents reached out to the Chinese billionaires….