Posted on 03/01/2023 5:21:58 PM PST by Zhang Fei
The politically connected Chinese donors who pledged $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal did not only want to build a statue of the former prime minister.
They also sought to erect a statue at the university’s law school of chairman Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader who brought his country under Communist control and, in his decades as the Great Helmsman, oversaw policies that led to huge numbers of deaths from famine and violence.
“They suggested one of Trudeau and Mao together,” Geneviève O’Meara, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, confirmed to The Globe and Mail.
The donation has come under new scrutiny after The Globe and Mail reported this week that its announcement followed instructions from a Chinese diplomat, who told billionaire Zhang Bin to give $1-million to the Trudeau Foundation. Mr. Zhang was promised full reimbursement by the Chinese government, a national security source told The Globe.
Their conversation was captured by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which has documented a pattern of Chinese attempts to influence the Canadian political process and elections.
The Globe has not identified the source, who risks prosecution under the Security of Information Act.
Some of the $1-million donation was intended to install a statue of Mr. Trudeau in front of the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Law, according to a news release that is no longer on the school’s website.
The release cited then-rector Guy Breton as praising the “bold, courageous hand that Pierre Elliott Trudeau held out to China in 1970.”
That was the year Canada formally re-established diplomatic relations with Beijing, a move that resulted in the closing of Taiwan’s embassy in Ottawa but helped to welcome China’s Communist leadership into the global community.
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Canada has been a vassal nation of China since the days of Trueshit Sr. That’s why they won’t let Alberta export its oil, because China wants to own it.
Well if you go carrying pictures of chairman mao
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone any how.
[Well if you go carrying pictures of chairman mao
You ain’t gonna make it with anyone any how.]
Now there would have been a statue to desecrate and pull down.
Xi could probably get Seattle to put up a big bronze statue just for the asking.
They have taken over Canada, Brazil and the US of A in the most recent elections.
I wonder how long before they start colonizing North America in earnest?
They are replacing Canadian doctors at a rapid pace currently.
Oh Canada... actively traded with North Vietnam during the 60s. I got nothing else to say to Canada.
“They suggested one of Trudeau and Mao together.”
Ridiculous, the only correct symbol would also be with Fidelito’s actual father.
Story of the day right here, man. HAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Oh Canada... actively traded with North Vietnam during the 60s. I got nothing else to say to Canada.]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Vietnam_War
Both Trudeaus are wastrels. But it’s hard to conjure up an unkind thought about our neighbors to the north, annoying though they can be on occasion.
Surprised he wouldn’t just do this voluntarily given the praise he gave to Castro.
A statue of Mao Zedong standing on a pile of dead Chinese citizens would have been interesting - - historically accurate and all..
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