Information & Ethics committee  Two receipts were prepared by the foundation, the first for an installment of $70,000 in 2017 and the second for an installment of $70,000 in 2018, presumably coming from the same donor, the same source, yet two receipts from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation were completely different. One was sent to a corporation with an address in Hong Kong, which was subsequently directed by the Chinese government to send it on to Beijing. The second receipt was sent to a shell corporation, the Millennium group in Dorval, Quebec.

Information & Ethics committee  I understand that you bring to your testimony today a significant history in the political field, the legal field and the governance field, as well as a significant period of time on the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. I'm actually shocked, unbelievably shocked, that you came before this committee. You've indicated in previous statements that you wanted an opportunity to correct some of the factual discrepancies in Ms.

Information & Ethics committee  Given all the experience you have in politics, do you admit that no one wanted to influence the Trudeau Foundation? Do you admit that it was rather the politician Trudeau, now Prime Minister, who was the target of the Beijing regime, according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service report?

Information & Ethics committee  Rosenberg's appearance on May 2, he said that the gift in question was intended for lectures to be delivered in collaboration with Université de Montréal. Why did the donation go unused by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation between 2016 and 2023?

Information & Ethics committee  I'd like to continue by asking a few questions that I've asked other witnesses, including Mr. Rosenberg and Ms. Fournier. Were there any meetings between the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the Prime Minister's Office?

Information & Ethics committee  You say that Beijing did not try to influence the foundation, and I understand that the foundation was not the target. However, Mr. Johnson, can you at least admit that the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, which is named after a former prime minister, one of whose sons, Alexandre, is an active member and whose other son, as everyone knows, is Prime Minister of Canada, can be an interesting target for an authoritarian regime like Beijing or anyone else who wants to exert influence?

Information & Ethics committee  Trudeau that there was no intent “to influence the Justin Trudeau government by a donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation”, that there was no mystery “around the identity of the donors or their affiliation”, and that there was nothing “illegitimate about [his] signing of the donation contract”. He said that there were no “irregularities around the issuance of the charitable receipt”, no inappropriate or unusual instructions from the donor to the foundation, no refusal on the part of certain board members to recuse themselves from an investigation of the donation, no legal advice from the foundation's lawyers that certain board members had conflicts of interest and that governance charges were required, and that the foundation did not seek to influence the government of Justin Trudeau or even had any connection with the government of Justin Trudeau.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Johnson, you're the chair of the Trudeau Foundation, aren't you?

Information & Ethics committee  How many donations did you sign donation agreements for at the Trudeau foundation?

Information & Ethics committee  Johnson, during her appearance, Pascale Fournier explained that she had put a donation acceptance policy in place at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation that involved a thorough review of donors. Prior to Ms. Fournier's presidency, did the foundation have a donor acceptance policy in place?

Information & Ethics committee  Not day by day but quarter by quarter. Surely at a board meeting as sophisticated as the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation's, you would have reports from the staff to the board outlining donations. Surely your testimony today isn't that you would hear about it in newsletters.

Information & Ethics committee  Just to clarify, when the foundation was formed through ISED, as you mentioned, did all political parties support the creation of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation?

Information & Ethics committee  Would you be able to say that the Trudeau Foundation is a non-partisan organization?

Information & Ethics committee  Does the Trudeau Foundation have bylaws that address foreign influence?

Information & Ethics committee  In that conversation, the donor was instructed by Beijing to make a donation to the Trudeau Foundation for the express purpose of gaining favour or access to the Prime Minister. You're aware of that from the article.