Canadian House committee votes unanimously to investigate Trudeau Foundation funding
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Questions surfaced after the foundation received a large donation alleged to be connected to the Chinese Communist Party.
(LifeSiteNews) — Canadian MPs from the House of Commons Public Accounts committee voted unanimously on Monday to start an investigation into how the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is funded after a report last month showed the foundation received a large donation alleged to be connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In a 10-0 vote, MPs also said that the Canada Revenue Agency should probe the foundation’s funding, with one MP noting, according to Blacklock’s Reporter, the foundation is “supported by public funds.”
NDP MP Blake Desjarlais sponsored the motion that read: “The committee call on the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and that the committee believes it is in the public interest to prioritize this investigation.”
According to Desjarlais, an investigation into the Trudeau Foundation’s finances and donations “is in the public interest” to see “in particular any possible misdealing the organization may have.”
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis stated that the foundation is not a “regular charity,” adding that it is in effect a “public institution in statute that has received massive injections of taxpayers’ money.”
Genuis said that as soon as Justin Trudeau, son of Pierre Elliot, took office as Prime Minister in 2015, “the foundation that bears his name started receiving substantial amounts of new money in foreign donations.”
The Conservative MP continued, noting that Trudeau has repeatedly claimed to the House of Commons that he had “had no connection, no involvement with the foundation in the last 10 years despite the fact he is listed as a member of the foundation in their latest Annual Report.”
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