The former CEO of the Trudeau Foundation who was at the helm when Chinese regime-backed entities made a donation says the fund could in no way have influenced the Canadian government.
“The donation bought no influence and we never thought that a $200,000 donation would influence any government,” said Morris Rosenberg on June 12 as he testified before the House of Commons public accounts committee.
“I think there’s a very innocent set of explanations for everything that went on in relation to this donation.”
Focus on the 2016 donation to the foundation resurfaced in late February when the Globe and Mail reported that, according to leaked Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) information, the Chinese regime made a donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in a bid to influence Justin Trudeau who had recently become the leader of the Liberal Party….