Former Conservative MP Chuck Strahl has resigned as a director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in the wake of revelations that a $1-million donation to the organization and University of Montreal was made by senior apparatchiks in Chinese state-run organizations whose purpose is to project Beijing’s influence abroad.
In a resignation letter, Mr. Strahl says what actually prompted him to quit is that Liberal MPs are invoking his directorship in their defence of the contribution which includes $50,000 to go towards erecting a statue of the former prime minister in Montreal.
“I cannot allow them to imply that my position with the foundation somehow justifies their actions,” Mr. Strahl wrote.
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