Trudeau Foundation probe can’t rule out possibility Chinese donations part of ‘influence scheme’ targeting Ottawa

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Trudeau Foundation probe can’t rule out possibility Chinese donations part of ‘influence scheme’ targeting Ottawa
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Review found handling of tax receipts related to the Chinese donations violated Income Tax Act

Alexandre Trudeau prepares to appear before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, studying foreign interference in Ottawa on May 3, 2023. A probe found he broke internal rules and policies of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation by the accepting the $200,000 donation pledge, which he was not authorized to do.

“We could not exclude the possibility that the donations in question may have been part of a wider influence scheme,” said the Feb. 5 report posted on the Trudeau Foundation website. “It is important to emphasize the fact that this potential scheme, if any, would have intended to target the Canadian government rather than the foundation itself.”

The diplomat told Mr. Zhang that Beijing would reimburse him for the entire amount of the donation to the Trudeau Foundation, according to the source. The Globe has not named the source because they risk prosecution under the Security of Information Act. A source told The Globe what the report by Norton Rose lawyers does not say is that the taxpayer-backed foundation paid a fine after Canada Revenue Agency did its own investigation.Foundation policy in 2016 required acceptances of gifts under $1-million to be signed by the organization’s president and chief executive, who at the time was Morris Rosenberg, a former senior civil servant. Gifts over $1-million needed to be signed by the board.

The Norton Rose report confirmed previous reporting by The Globe that showed the China Cultural Industry Association – a state-backed group in Beijing that aims to build “the soft power of Chinese culture” globally – contacted the Trudeau Foundation at the outset to dictate what name and address should be put on the tax receipt for the gift. It said however it could not find a receipt to reflect this request.

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