The donors suggested one of Pierre Trudeau and Mao Zedong together, says spokesperson for the University of Montreal
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.
The Globe has not identified the source, who risks prosecution under the Security of Information Act. Three years later, Mr. Trudeau met Chairman Mao in Beijing on the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister to Communist. The two exchanged a lengthy handshake and talked about Canadian agricultural production, the Arctic and “problems of peace in the world,” Mr. Trudeau told the CBC at the time.Mr. Trudeau’s second son, Alexandre, was born that same year.
A Trudeau statue, she said, made more sense: Mr. Trudeau attended the university’s law school and subsequently taught there. But he had also, as prime minister, “showed a great openness to China,” Ms. O’Meara said.
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