BROSSARD—Beijing made an unsolicited donation of Chinese language books to a municipal library in Quebec, which included a piece praising the accomplishments of the Communist Party.
The Chinese consulate in Montreal donated 300 books to a city on the south shore of Montreal in 2017, and attempted another donation in 2019, as first reported by the Journal de Montréal.
The Epoch Times went on-site to assess the collection at the Brossard municipal library. While many books are about the Chinese language, history, and culture, at least one is Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda.
“Overseas Chinese and the New China” features in the collection, which describes the 60 years of “struggle” and “great practices” of the “New China,” a term used to describe China under Communist Party rule since 1949….