\u0027We\u0027re wasting our time on the notion of interference. I have seen no trace of it,\u0027 Sacha Trudeau told MPs on the ethics committee
He particularly took issue with a recent Globe and Mail revelation that Canada’s spy agency had captured a conversation between an official at one of China’s consulates in Canada instructing Zhang to donate a large sum to the Trudeau Foundation for which he would be reimbursed.
Chinese billionaire donor, Zhang Bin, by Trudeau’s account, initially only wanted to donate to the University of Montreal in the same way that he had donated to the University of Toronto years earlier and did not want to “complicate” things by giving to the Trudeau Foundation.Article content He laid the blame on her for the internal crisis in the foundation that led to her resignation and that of eight other members last month.
“This donation came from a private company in good standing in Canada,” argued Trudeau. “This is a company whose bank account is in the Bank of Montreal, governed by very strict rules on money laundering and all the rest.”
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