”… CSIS also explained how Chinese diplomats conduct foreign interference operations in support of political candidates and elected officials.
” Sympathetic donors are also encouraged to provide campaign contributions to candidates favoured by China – donations for which they receive a tax credit from the federal government.
20, 2021 says, political campaigns quietly, and illegally, return part of the contribution – “the difference between the original donation and the government`s refund” – back to the donors.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service captured a conversation in 2014 between an unnamed commercial attaché at one of China`s consulates in Canada and billionaire Zhang Bin, a political adviser to the government in Beijing and a senior official in China`s network of state promoters around the world.
Zhang to donate $1-million to the Trudeau Foundation, and told him the Chinese government would reimburse him for the entire amount… Mr.
Zhang attended a Liberal Party fundraiser at the Toronto home of Chinese Business Chamber of Canada chair Benson Wong, where Mr.
Zhang and another wealthy Chinese businessman, Niu Gensheng, would donate $1-million “to honour the memory and leadership” of Pierre Trudeau, who as prime minister opened diplomatic relations with China in 1970.
Trudeau told reporters Monday that Morris Rosenberg, a former head of the Trudeau Foundation, had been selected in summer 2022 to write an independent report that will assess the effectiveness of a government panel that monitored the 2021 election for foreign threats.
He was “involved in facilitating a controversial $200,000 donation from influential CCP official Bin Zhang, who was also intimately involved in Trudeau`s 2016 billionaire cash-for-access scandal,” the Conservatives said in a Monday news release.
Guy Saint-Jacques, who was Canada`s ambassador to China until October, 2016, said Mr.
Zhang had told him before the 2015 election that he planned to make donations in Canada in memory of the senior Mr.
Saint-Jacques said that during this period of time Chinese officials would often tell him they wanted Mr.
The politically connected Chinese donors who pledged $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal did not only want to build a statue of the former prime minister.
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