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This certainly seems to shed a different light on the abuse directed at the board members "thanks to the Conservatives". Sounds like the abuse came from their peers.
I'm sure the names and addresses shell game was an accident. After all, China just wanted to help students.
I'm sure the names and addresses shell game was an accident. After all, China just wanted to help students.
Former Trudeau Foundation CEO quit over tensions with the board on Chinese donation
OTTAWA — The former CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Pascale Fournier, said she stepped down on April 10 alongside eight members of the board after she sought to shed some light on the Chinese donation of $140,000 but was met with fierce resistance.
Fournier, who was appearing in front of the parliamentary committee of ethics Friday morning, told MPs her last weeks at the foundation were “very heated” and that she was personally attacked for insisting that certain board members recuse themselves from the investigation.
Fournier said she found discrepancies between the donation contract, the two cheques — one sent in 2016 from an address in China and a second one in 2017 from an address in Quebec — and the tax receipts that were issued to the Canada Revenue Agency at the time, as well as the foundation’s annual reports.
Fournier also found a number of emails from the China Cultural Industry Association, directing the foundation to tell them what to write on the tax receipts, including names and addresses. She told the committee that she found the content of those emails “very curious and troubling.”