Ya'ara Saks at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On May 3rd, 2023. See this statement in context.

May 3rd, 2023 / 6:20 p.m.

Liberal

Ya'ara Saks Liberal York Centre, ON

I understand.

Okay, let's further the context of that timeframe.

It was 2013 and 2014. The Harper Conservatives were in power. Stephen Harper was aggressively pursuing a secret 31-year trade deal with China at that time with Xi Jinping. That was going on.

At that time, did the Harper government or officials brief you or the Trudeau foundation? Did CSIS come to the Trudeau foundation at that time and say, “You know, we're a little bit concerned here about potential foreign influence with Mr. Zhang's contributions,” whether to the Trudeau foundation, the Université de Montréal or the University of Toronto? Were there any conversations like that?

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