Breaking: Resignations of Board of Directors for Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation

[Gone_Fishin]

Here's what we know.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/s ... i-AA1aGMyO

[nucksRnum1]

Here's what we know.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/s ... i-AA1aGMyO

Unsubstantiated claims by the opposition leader are knowledge?

[Gone_Fishin]

When investigating a scandal, follow the money, they always say.

And, every single time, it leads you back to the Trudeau family, doesn’t it?

Michael Chong scandal bigger than others Trudeau has faced


It’s a bigger scandal.

The harm facing Michael Chong’s family, that is. And it’s arguably bigger than the Aga Khan, SNC-Lavalin and the WE “charity” scandals.

Each of those previous Trudeau government scandals was, ultimately, about money and graft. At the sordid, seamy centre of each of those was something that could be quantified with dollar signs.

Aga Khan was about a lobbyist supplying the Prime Minister of Canada with lavish gifts, contrary to every ethics rule extant governing elected officials. SNC-Lavalin was about Trudeau and his circle obstructing justice, and pressuring prosecutors to go easy on a Liberal Party donor facing corruption charges.

And the WE scandal, of course, was about money — hundreds of thousands of dollars — landing in the pockets of Trudeau family members, and a lucrative contract then going to WE.

So why is the Michael Chong story more of a scandal?

Forget, for a moment, that Chong is an MP, and an effective Opposition Member. At the end of the day, he is a Canadian citizen, one who — like all of us — deserves to be protected by his country’s government.

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Yet nothing was done to warn the Chongs, or try and get them out of Hong Kong.

Trudeau said on Wednesday that he didn’t know about the CSIS report until Monday, if we believe that and it is suspicious to say the least, then that tells us his government is incompetent instead of negligent. Either way, a Canadian MP and his family were threatened.

Since the story broke in the pages of the Globe and Mail, TruAnon-winged monkeys have been swarming social media, actually claiming that Michael Chong wasn’t really, truly threatened because he didn’t know about the threats until he read them in a newspaper.

That is as deeply dishonest, and it is idiotic. And it ignores the obvious and real scandal: If the prime minister of Canada knew what the Chongs were facing, then why did he do nothing?

What if one of them had been beaten? What if one of them had been killed? What, if something has, in fact, happened, and don’t even know about it yet? That is why it feels worse than any previous scandal.

Trudeau knows it is one, too. That is why he scrambled to meet with Chong on Tuesday, bringing along his ineffectual national security advisor and Canadian Security Intelligence Service director. But that meeting took place long, long after the fact. Too late.

If Trudeau knew China was a threat to the Chongs, then why would he not warn Michael Chong about what he knew? Was it because Chong is a Conservative who criticizes him? Perhaps.

More likely it is this: the Trudeau Foundation received thousands from a Chinese front company in what appears to be an attempt to influence his decision-making. His brother, Sacha, was apparently personally involved in that “gift,” and is finally testifying on his role in Parliament on Wednesday afternoon.

So, at the end, this scandal — which is worse than all the others, because it is about human lives being placed at risk — also involves graft and money.

When investigating a scandal, follow the money, they always say.

And, every single time, it leads you back to the Trudeau family, doesn’t it?


https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ki ... r-AA1aGTFY

[69cutlass]

Here's what we know.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/s ... i-AA1aGMyO

Unsubstantiated claims by the opposition leader are knowledge?

And putting your head in the sand and denying media reports is?

[Gone_Fishin]

Well, that settles that.

National Security Advisor to Trudeau, Jody Thomas, confirms Chong issue was sent to PMO in 2021.

[The Green Barbarian]

Well, that settles that.

National Security Advisor to Trudeau, Jody Thomas, confirms Chong issue was sent to PMO in 2021.

So there is piles of evidence showing Liberal malfeasance but where is the evidence? Nothing-burgers everywhere! Liberal clown world.

[the truth]

Well, that settles that.

National Security Advisor to Trudeau, Jody Thomas, confirms Chong issue was sent to PMO in 2021.

but but spineless jt would never lie ,would he

[hobbyguy]

As far as the actual topic of this thread is concerned, this what Chuck Strahl said of the matter at the time:

Former Conservative minister Chuck Strahl says he quit the board of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation after the Liberals tried to use him as "a foil or a cover for what they’re doing."

On Wednesday, Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc challenged NDP Leader Tom Mulcair in the House of Commons to "ask Chuck Strahl" about the foundation’s independence, after Mulcair accused the Liberals of failing to follow their own ethics rules by allowing Chinese national Zhang Bin to attend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s private fundraiser dinner in May.

Soon after the $1,500-a-person Liberal fundraiser, Zhang and another man signed an agreement to give a $1-million donation to the Montreal charity named for Trudeau’s father, along with the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Law.

$50,000 dollars of the donation will be used to install a statue of Trudeau’s father, $750,000 will go to scholarships at the law school and $200,000 will support foundation conferences and events, according to a statement from the foundation. The foundation maintains that it is an “independent, non-partisan charity.”

Strahl told Evan Solomon on the Ottawa radio station CFRA that he’s "not angry or annoyed with the Trudeau Foundation" but "plenty annoyed at the Liberals for dragging my name into the House of Commons and using me as a foil or a cover for what they’re doing."

"Clearly people understand it’s just not right," Strahl said of the Liberal fundraising dinners, which the NDP and Conservatives both maintain break the Liberals’ own ethics rules, which were put in place to avoid the perception that access to government ministers can be bought with donations to the party.

"This is the same thing that got Hillary Clinton in trouble down south," Strahl said. "You too closely mix your personal, your business, your political and your governmental work, and people … cannot unscramble this mess."

Strahl said the prime minister is not involved in the day-to-day operation of the foundation, may not have had anything to do with Zhang’s donation and that he is not accusing him of that. The "problem," according to Strahl, is that the "Trudeau family (are) the ones who choose the directors."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/chuck-s ... -1.3175914

[Gone_Fishin]

The Trudeau Liberals also directly appoint a number of board members to the Foundation.

[Gone_Fishin]

Riddle me this, Batman...

Why is the ONLY donation contract Alexandre Trudeau EVER signed during his 20 years at the Trudeau Foundation the one from Beijing?




https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/j ... r-AA1aKf9C

[69cutlass]

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[hobbyguy]

The Trudeau Liberals also directly appoint a number of board members to the Foundation.

Nope. They do not.

There are 30 members of the foundation of which only 6 seats are appointed by the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. Some may have been appointed by the previous government's minister, but I am not sure of that. I suspect that was the avenue by which Chuck Strahl became a board member? Not sure.

The 30 members then elect the board of directors, and vote on foundation bylaw changes etc.

https://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/foundation-members

[Gone_Fishin]

^^^ What-effing-ever. The Liberals still put 6 stiffs into those positions.

The Trudeau Foundation is directly controlled by the Trudeaus. Period. You're not getting in the door without Justin's stamp of approval.

Why is the ONLY donation contract Alexandre Trudeau EVER signed during his 20 years at the Trudeau Foundation the one from Beijing?

[Gone_Fishin]

Watch this. And then ask yourself: can you ever again believe anything Justin says?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1616805342131764

[Gone_Fishin]

The Trudeau Foundation stinks to high heaven.