ICYMI - FIRST READING: How the Trudeau Foundation became a scandal mill
Memorial endowments are typically bankrolled via private donations. That wasThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.But while the Trudeau Foundation did initially set out to find willing philanthropists, its existence is mostly owed to the $125 million it received from the government of Jean Chrétien in 2002.
The current board is largely free of explicit Liberal ties, comprising directors such as former Iqaluit mayor Madeleine Redfern and University of Ottawa professor Saani Yaya. And it has featured the occasional Conservative, most notably Chuck Strahl, a minister under Stephen Harper. And as early as 2016, the Foundation was first seen to be receiving an unexplained influx of cash that just happened to coincide with the political rise of Justin Trudeau.
In 2013, Trudeau’s first year at the helm of the Liberal Party, Trudeau Foundation donations suddenly quadrupled to $254,000. The year he became prime minister, they had surged to $634,000.Article contentBut there was definitely overlap between this new crop of foundation donors and people who had an interest in lobbying the new Liberal leader.
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