How Awkward ...

 ... for Justin:

This is big, La Presse report is saying PMO's claims of wall between PMJT and the Trudeau Foundation, are unraveling. So if it is now confirmed this is a CCP donation, lots of implications. https://t.co/D4ewDPzGoY pic.twitter.com/SvbhThXJcM

— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) April 14, 2023

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Justin Trudeau meets with businessman Niu Gensheng at his Meech Lake house short months after his brother, Alexandre Trudeau, accepted the tainted donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation that is claimed to have originated from the Chinese government to buy influence.… pic.twitter.com/N52W6r36TL

— The Real Andy Lee Show (@RealAndyLeeShow) April 13, 2023

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"the name of the true donor, according to the document, did not appear anywhere on the accounting books of the foundation"

Forget the Beijing concerns for a moment. How does any charity accept *any* cheque for $140,000 without knowing who wrote it? https://t.co/uceZtnw7R3

— Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 (@awudrick) April 12, 2023

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(Sidebar: the excerpt below has been translated with Google Translate.)

The Trudeau Foundation has claimed its share of the million dollars that two Chinese businessmen initially reserved in full for a scholarship project administered by the University of Montreal, says the architect of the transaction.

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A businessman whose reported donations to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation led to the resignation of its CEO is the president of a Chinese cultural organization that says it operates under the authority of the communist government.

The website of the China Cultural Industry Association says it adheres to the "total leadership" of the Chinese Communist Party and was formed with the approval of China's State Council, which is synonymous with the central government.

The association says on its Chinese-language site that its president is Zhang Bin, a Chinese billionaire that the Globe and Mail reported had donated $200,000 to the foundation in 2016, along with another Chinese businessman.

(Sidebar: this Zhang Bin.)

But the Globe reported that a receipt named a company called Millennium Golden Eagle International (Canada) as the donor.

The China Cultural Industry Association says Millennium Golden Eagle International is one of its executive board members and was created with the approval of China's culture ministry.

Zhang is listed as chairman of Millennium Golden Eagle International on multiple privately-run Chinese company registries.

The Globe had reported in February, citing an unnamed source, that the Chinese government orchestrated donations to Université de Montreal and to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in hopes of influencing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

(Sidebar: this Universite de Montreal.)

The university said in a statement that it is considering all options in light of new information about a $750,000 donation it received in 2016 that reportedly had ties to Beijing.

The foundation, for its part, had promised to return the $200,000 donation that came from Zhang and Niu Gensheng.

 

 

Justin's handler, Katie Telford, ran as much interference as she could but I don't think that will be enough given the loads of evidence that has since popped up:

If Telford wanted to claim that she couldn’t talk about allegations due to national security concerns, that should have applied to everything, not just things she wanted to selectively speak about. It also raises questions about other allegations.

Does her statement mean that just the funds part was inaccurate? Does it mean that all the other allegations that she wouldn’t discuss are accurate?

 

 

Now, about Justin's dad's foundation:

A new thing about the Trudeau Foundation: It does not seem to be funding enough charitable work to meet the legal standards required of charities.

This is more common than you’d think, but as @CharityCanada told me, it’s supposed to be an exemplar.https://t.co/ZfpQuj38bx

— David Reevely (@davidreevely) April 14, 2023

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Charitable foundations in Canada are required to disburse 3.5% cent of their assets for qualifying charity purposes each year, according to Canadian law. The Trudeau Foundation has failed to meet this legal threshold in 4 of the past 5 years. https://t.co/M6E8O21z2U

— Paul Vieira (@paulvieira) April 15, 2023

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"The Trudeau Foundation built such a latticework of high-level contacts that seemingly half of Ottawa is either an official member, has been on the payroll, has acted as one of its official “mentors” or has benefited from its largesse"  

 

Read the whole thing. It is a who's who of Liberal privilege and patronage.

The Liberals are doing their utmost to torpedo this and any criticism of what they are doing:

 

Based on a silly misreading of Telford saying Poilievre declined to be briefed on foreign interference, requiring a security check. Her argument wasn't that Poilievre was afraid of a security check. It was that even Poilievre understands why she can talk about security issues https://t.co/EaGiSCP6Cz

— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) April 16, 2023

 

See here:

 

 

 

 

Yes, about that:

Because it would muzzle him and open him up to prosecution. The Liberal Government should be sharing the information with the public. What benefit is there to the population for PP to know and can’t say anything?

— Devon A Thompson (@truedevonthomps) April 15, 2023

 

 

Vincent Ke has had ample opportunity to hold a press conference and prove his innocence.

This is about saving face:

An Ontario legislator says he has served Global News with a notice of libel over allegations of election interference by China.

Vincent Ke argues the Global News article by reporter Sam Cooper falsely accuses him of being deliberately harmful to Canadian democracy.

The article alleged Ke served as a financial intermediary in a Chinese Communist Party election interference scheme.

Ke alleges he has faced hateful and racist threats since the article’s publication and that the allegations in the story have tarnished his reputation.