Public Accounts committee  The amendment would be to add, at the beginning of the fourth paragraph before the words “All documents related to any audit”, the following: “And, as requested by the committee in its Report No. 27 asking the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation”.

Public Accounts committee  I know colleagues want to share more information, but the motion this committee put forward a few weeks ago on the Canada Revenue Agency and the Trudeau foundation is, I think, a strong motion. I want to see the amendment in written form. I don't know if it's been sent out yet. I think the clerk is still looking at that. I will consider it.

Public Accounts committee  I move that the third paragraph begin with: And, pursuant to the Committee's request in Report 27 that the Canada Revenue Agency investigate the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, The rest of the paragraph about all documents related to any audit or investigation remains unchanged. My amendment would certainly make the words “or investigation” unnecessary.

Privilege  That is something I can somewhat believe, because he does not seem to know much about what is going on in his office. He did not know that the Trudeau Foundation had a meeting in his office. He did not know that Beijing donated $140,000 to that very foundation. He did not know about an important intelligence report that his national security adviser was given two years ago.

Privilege  However, I did not see a report coming from PROC that said there was no interference with the Trudeau Foundation. The hon. member also says there was no quid pro quo, but let us look at the facts. Money went to the Trudeau Foundation, for which it was reported as an effort to influence the government.

Privilege  We will never know where the idea originated for the government program for the WE Charity to disburse $1 billion of government funds. We also had to play it last week with respect to the Trudeau Foundation donation that was linked to the Chinese Communist Party. There are allegations that donations to the foundation that bears the Prime Minister's name were made to influence the government.

Privilege  We have heard of the connection between the special rapporteur and Mr. Rosenberg as it relates to the Trudeau Foundation. The Trudeau Foundation is actually implicated in this foreign interference campaign by the Beijing regime. I want the hon. member to speak to the need for an independent inquiry to get to the bottom of foreign interference in this country.

Privilege  Madam Speaker, it is absolutely essential that we have an independent, non-partisan inquiry into foreign influence in Canadian elections. The member raised the Trudeau Foundation. The fact is that the Trudeau Foundation accepted a $140,000 gift from the Communist Party in Beijing. It accepted $140,000 in a contribution agreement signed by the Prime Minister's brother.

Information & Ethics committee  Seven, that in the foundation's lawyers' legal opinion, some members of the board were in conflict of interest and changes in governance were required. Eight, that the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation sought to influence Justin Trudeau's government or was in some way linked to it. The answer to all these questions is resolutely no. My hope is that we can now take up these questions one by one to carefully shed light on how the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has not been a part of any foreign interference attempts.

Democratic Institutions  Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak about the Trudeau Foundation. The Trudeau Foundation is the talk of the town in many ways, so it is important to review what the foundation actually is because the Trudeau Foundation is a curious beast. As far as its structure and its governance goes, it is kind of a chameleon, conveniently identifying as a charity some of the time and as a government institution at other times.

Information & Ethics committee  The Trudeau Foundation has supported some brilliant scholars over the past two decades. Without its help, they wouldn't be where they are today. This is an important moment for the foundation. I strongly believe that an independent investigation is needed to separate fact from innuendo.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, it is true that David Johnston served honourably as our Governor General, but that was before he was chosen by this government to be the overseer of the election debates, and it was before he was named to the Trudeau Foundation as a director, a position he finally stepped down from after there were complaints that it put him in a rank conflict of interest, because the Trudeau Foundation had received $140,000 to $200,000, depending on the reports, from someone attempting to influence the government.

Business of Supply  I find that quite rich. David Johnston is a former governor general, member of the Trudeau Foundation, personal friend of the Prime Minister, with close ties to Beijing. Johnston was appointed special rapporteur by the Prime Minister to determine whether there should be an inquiry and what should be done.

Government Priorities  He has been out of the country on vacation, with his most recent one being paid for by a donor to the Trudeau Foundation. Now he is tuning up the jet to head off again next week. While drug use and crime rage, and food bank use soars, is the Prime Minister ready to park the taxpayer-funded jet to step up for Canadians?

Liberal Party of Canada  While Oshawa seniors struggle, the Prime Minister takes his private jet to New York to take selfies with his rich friends, or to one of five vacations this year alone. Who pays for this Hollywood lifestyle of his? It is Canadians and his Trudeau Foundation donors, of course. While the Prime Minister lives it up, seniors are paying twice the amount for rent and have to choose between food and energy. With the new carbon tax, gas will go up another 41¢ per litre.