A CCP-linked Chinese billionaire who donated to the alma mater of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and toward erecting a statue of him, also wanted the university to put up a statue of former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong.
Jeff Heinrich, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, told The Epoch Times that the institution in 2016 received $550,000 from Zhang Bin and another donor, Niu Gensheng, which went toward establishing the Bin Zhang-Niu Gensheng Chinese-Canadian Scholarship Fund, although a final payment of $250,000 was never made.
The university declined the request to build the Mao statue.
Heinrich also noted that the university had no knowledge of the donation allegedly coming at the behest of a Chinese official, as reported recently in a Globe and Mail report citing a national security source….