Ms. Pascale Fournier at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On April 28th, 2023. See this statement in context.

April 28th, 2023 / 9:30 a.m.

Former President and Chief Excecutif Officer at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and Full Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, As an Individual

Pascale Fournier

Yes. One of the donors was part of this organization called the China Cultural Industry Association, which has ties to the Chinese government. I didn't know until the end of February 2023 that it wasn't the donors who were corresponding with the foundation, but this association. In all the emails I could find from the foundation going back to that time, when I was not in office, at no time did either of the two donors correspond with the foundation.

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