Fri May 19, 2023 – 8:33 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian MPs who sit on a committee investigating public accounts are demanding they be allowed to review the tax records of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation, whose entire board resigned last month after a report surfaced detailing how it received a $200,000 donation alleged to be connected to Communist China.
On Monday, both Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) and Bloc Québécois MPs from the House of Commons public accounts committee gave a notice that up to 10 years’ worth of the Foundation’s tax returns should be released for review.
CPC MP Kelly McCauley said that Canadians are “owed a proper explanation” about the Foundation.
As noted in Blacklock’s Reporter, he asked, “Is there political interference with the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) decision to target some charities but give others a pass or whether the Agency is going off on its own bent and not following the rules?”
McCauley and the other MPs’ demand to review the tax records comes considering the Foundation is alleged to have distorted its large gift from a Chinese donor with ties to a Communist China-linked TV channel.
After asking for the tax
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors