News Analysis
New information is surfacing on the Chinese donation that took down the leadership of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, but how accurate is it and how does it tie into the larger picture?
It’s clear that the donors were affiliated with the Chinese regime, and reportedly the money was meant to serve a purpose in Beijing’s foreign influence strategy.
One stakeholder who claims he played a key part in the donation given in 2016 provides a different account of how the donation came about.
Guy Lefebvre, a former vice-president of the Université de Montréal (UdeM), told Le Devoir that the Chinese donors were not interested in dealing with the foundation and that he was the one who reached out to them so they would give money to UdeM….