Tue Apr 11, 2023 – 5:33 pm EDTTue Apr 11, 2023 – 5:37 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) –– The entire board of directors, including the president and CEO, of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation resigned today after a report surfaced last month detailing how the non-profit group received a $200,000 donation that was alleged to be connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In a press release sent out this morning, the Foundation admitted that the mass exodus of all its board members was directly linked to “the political climate surrounding a donation received by the Foundation in 2016.”
Last month, after the CCP-linked donation scandal broke, the Foundation said it would be returning the money.
The donation revelation came amidst an ever-growing number of reports alleging that the CCP has been meddling in Canada’s last two federal elections, both of which saw Trudeau emerge victorious.
According to the foundation, the scandal “put a great deal of pressure on the Foundation’s management and volunteer Board of Directors, as well as on our staff and our community.”
“The circumstances created by the politicization of the Foundation have made it impossible to continue with the status
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