The Conservatives are crying foul over the appointment of former Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation president and CEO Morris Rosenberg to head up a panel examining foreign interference in Canadian elections.
Rosenberg was CEO in 2016 when the Trudeau Foundation received $200,000 in donations from Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman tied to the Chinese communist regime, who was also in attendance at a Liberal Party cash-for-access fundraiser event in 2016 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Conservatives issued their statement on the matter late on Feb. 27, just before a Feb. 28 Globe and Mail report citing an unnamed national security source said that a Chinese diplomat had instructed Zhang in 2014 to donate $1 million dollars to the Trudeau Foundation, and that Beijing would reimburse him for the sum. Of that amount, $200,000 went to the Trudeau Foundation, $50,000 toward the building of a statue of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, and $75,000 to the University of Montreal’s faculty of law, where Pierre Trudeau had attended as a student and later an instructor….