Fri May 5, 2023 – 4:51 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The former head of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation admitted he never questioned the fact that a Canadian charity tax receipt for $140,000 was sent by the Foundation to an address in China linked to a TV production company with a Canadian address.
The admission was made by Morris Rosenberg on Tuesday during testimony before the House of Commons ethics committee. Rosenberg served as the Foundation’s president and CEO from 2014 to 2018.
As per Blacklock’s Reporter, the Chinese TV production company is linked to the Communist Youth League. According to Rosenberg, the donation to the Foundation came “with no strings attached.”
“Our intention was not to hide anything,” he said, adding that the Foundation did not count it “as a Chinese donation,” because the money came through an intermediary with a Canadian postal address.
The Foundation came under fire recently after a scandal broke detailing how the non-profit group received a $200,000 donation alleged to be connected to the CCP.
The foundation appears to have ignored warnings from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) regarding accepting certain cash donations.
Last month, after the CCP-linked
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