Fri May 5, 2023 – 5:16 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Alexandre “Sacha” Trudeau, brother of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, testified that Chinese donations to the Pierre Trudeau Foundation did not constitute Chinese interference.
During a House of Commons ethics committee session on Wednesday, Sacha Trudeau, the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, told Parliament members that China-linked donations to the Pierre Trudeau Foundation were not intended to allow foreign power influence over Canadian politics.
“I must insist there was no foreign interference, no possibility of interference, no intention or means of interference at or in the Trudeau Foundation,” Sacha testified, adding the session was “a waste of time.”
Sacha volunteered to appear before the committee after a photograph of him surfaced with Chinese donors accepting the $140,000 contribution on behalf of the Trudeau Foundation, which calls itself “an independent and non-partisan charity established in 2001 as a living memorial to the former prime minister.”
According to Sacha, the 2016 and 2017 donations totaling $140,000 from Chinese billionaire Zhang Bin and Chinese businessman Niu Gensheng were given to the Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montréal to launch a scholarship program in his
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