The former mayor of a northern municipality says she was offered free trips to China during her mandate, and while she turned them down, she knows of others who didn’t.
“I was aware of the perception of the problem of currying influence and favour, I think they sometimes call it ‘political capture.’ I did not think that was a good idea,” Madeleine Redfern told The Epoch Times in an interview.
Redfern is the former mayor of Iqaluit, Nunavut, and now a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and co-chair of think tank Arctic360.
She testified before the House of Commons ethics committee on June 2 and spoke of her experience of dealing with Chinese entities while in office….