The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) may “take a look” at auditing the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation after reports that it received a Beijing-connected $140,000 charitable donation, MPs on a House of Commons committee heard from the agency’s commissioner.
As Commissioner Bob Hamilton appeared before the Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts on May 12, MPs asked him if recent happenings at the Trudeau Foundation would merit a CRA probe, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
“What if an organization’s entire board resigned?” asked NDP MP Blake Desjarlais, referring to the Trudeau Foundation’s leadership team resigning on April 11 following internal tensions concerning how the controversial donation, made in 2016, was handled….