The Office of the Auditor General (OAG) says it will not be investigating a donation made to the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation by donors linked to Beijing because the amount and private nature of the funds put them outside the office’s authority.
“This decision is based on the scope of the Auditor General’s authority under the Auditor General Act, and our review of the endowment agreement between the Government of Canada and the Foundation,” OAG spokesperson Natasha Leduc wrote in an email to The Epoch Times on April 24.
The office added that the Auditor General Act gives the OAG auditing authority over any organization that receives at least $1 million in public funds under a “funding agreement” with the federal government….