TOP DIPLOMAT INDEBTED TO CHINA FOR $1.2M

When François-Philippe Champagne was promoted to minister of foreign affairs in a Cabinet shuffle last November, he received his marching orders from Justin Trudeau in the form of a mandate letter.
“The arrangement of your private affairs should bear the closest public scrutiny,” Champagne was advised. “This is an obligation that is not fully discharged by simply acting within the law.”
  In that context, the revelation in the Globe and Mail that Champagne has two mortgages, with an outstanding balance of $1.2 million, with the state-owned Bank of China is stupefying.

  But there's a qualitative difference to holding mortgages with a Chinese bank when you are infrastructure minister, or even trade minister, and being indebted to communist China as Canada's most senior diplomat.