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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/poli...e32971362/

Guests included businessman who donated $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal Faculty of Law weeks after event

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the top draw at a $1,500 Liberal Party cash-for-access fundraiser at the mansion of a wealthy Chinese-Canadian business executive in May. One of the guests at the event was a well-heeled donor who was seeking Ottawa's final approval to begin operating a new bank aimed at Canada's Chinese community.

The Globe and Mail has learned that wealthy Chinese businessman Zhang Bin who, with a partner, donated $1-million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal Faculty of Law weeks after the fundraiser, also attended the event. Mr. Zhang is a political adviser to the Chinese government in Beijing and a senior apparatchik in the network of Chinese state promotional activities around the world.

Chinese Business Chamber of Commerce chair Benson Wong played host to Mr. Trudeau and 32 other people at his Toronto home. Among the donors was insurance tycoon Shenglin Xian, the founder of Wealth One Bank of Canada, and several Chinese billionaires.

At the time, Mr. Xian, president of Toronto-based Shenglin Financial Group Inc., was waiting for final approval from federal bank regulators for his Schedule 1 bank to start business in Canada. Schedule 1 banks are domestic, not foreign, and authorized to accept deposits in Canada.

Attending the fundraiser appears to breach the ethical rules laid down by Mr. Trudeau after he took office. These "Open and Accountable Government" rules state "there should be no preferential access, or appearance of preferential access" in exchange for political donations.

The fundraiser also appears to violate Liberal Party guidelines that require party officials to ban anyone from attending a fundraiser if they have direct business interests before the government.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), which reports to Parliament through Finance Minister Bill Morneau, gave the final okay for Wealth One to launch as a federally chartered domestic bank on July 19 with online banking services supported by offices in Toronto and Vancouver.

Canada's banking watchdog assesses applications for new banks in a multistage process that includes consultation with the Finance Department.

Liberal Party spokesman Braeden Caley played down the presence of Mr. Xian at the elite Trudeau fundraiser, and maintained Wealth One's application was not discussed.

"As we have been clear, fundraising events are partisan functions where there is not discussion of official government business. Any individual who wishes to initiate a discussion on such matters is immediately redirected to instead make an appointment with the relevant office," Mr. Caley said in an e-mail to The Globe. "As a political party, the Liberal Party of Canada is not aware of proposals to government – and any such information sharing would be inappropriate."

Mr. Caley referred The Globe to an official in Mr. Morneau's office. The official said Wealth One got tentative approval with letters of patent from Conservative finance minister Joe Oliver on July 22, 2015. OSFI did not seek or require Mr. Morneau's July 19, 2016, approval, the official said.

Mr. Xian, who emigrated from China to Canada in 1990 and quickly became one of the country's top insurance agents, did not respond to repeated attempts from The Globe for comment.

NDP MP Charlie Angus said the Prime Minister had "really stepped over the line" and "set a low bar" by attending the private fundraiser.

"I find this particular case very troubling because this is a person who has a direct financial interest, paid money, had access to the Prime Minister and whether business was discussed is beside the point," Mr. Angus told The Globe.

Just weeks after the May fundraiser, the Trudeau Foundation and the university announced that Mr. Zhang, who is also president of the China Cultural Industry Association, and another wealthy Chinese businessman, Niu Gensheng, would donate $1-million to the University of Montreal and the Trudeau Foundation "to honour the memory and leadership" of the former prime minister, who opened diplomatic relations with China in 1970. Of the $1-million endowment, $200,000 went to the Trudeau Foundation, $50,000 will pay for the statue of the elder Mr. Trudeau, and $750,000 will fund University of Montreal Faculty of Law scholarships, which include grants for Quebec students to visit China.

The China Cultural Industry Association, which is supervised and regulated by two Chinese state ministries, aims to build international ties for Beijing.

There is no evidence Mr. Zhang paid to attend the fundraiser, and as a foreign citizen, he cannot make federal political donations. Mr. Niu was not at the event.

Another Chinese billionaire, Ted Jiancheng Zhou, a real estate developer who now lives in Canada, also paid $1,500 to attend the private Trudeau event, as did Jenny Qi, a movie actress, real estate investor and president of the Canada Confederation of Shenzhen Associations. Bob Guo, the chief executive officer of Goldenmount Capital International, was at the fundraiser, but The Globe was unable to determine if he paid the $1,500-per-person ticket price.

Photographs from the May 19 fundraiser in Mr. Wong's home show Mr. Trudeau speaking to the group with Canadian and Chinese flags in the background. Among the guests was Liu Meng, chairman of the Yangtze River International Chamber of Commerce, which is opening a branch in Canada.

Mr. Liu, a member of China's Communist Party, has been praised by China's state media for "seeking out overseas delegates for future business co-operation ... and to invest abroad and expand into the global market."

A photo of Mr. Liu beside the Prime Minister appeared in the Yangtze River Network, a Chinese-run government media outlet based in Wuhan. The Liberal Party said Mr. Liu did not make any personal donations.

"It is our understanding that Liu Meng attended as a friend and guest of the volunteer in whose home the event was hosted, and that he made no political contribution in association with his attendance that evening," Mr. Caley said.

Mr. Trudeau was also photographed with Xiangton Zhao, a multimillionaire from China focused on property investment and development. There is no record of Mr. Zhao making a donation.

Some of the investors in Wealth One have close ties to China's Communist regime, including bank director Yuansheng Ou Yang, an owner of a string of Yuan Ming supermarkets in Canada and businesses in China's Fujian province.

His biography on the Wealth One website says that before he immigrated to Canada in 1990, Mr. Ou Yang was a member of the National People's Congress, which is China's legislature, and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a political advisory board for China's leaders.

Another director is Mao Hua Chen, a wealthy Vancouver real estate developer, who along with his wife, Mingyan Lin, are listed as key investors in Wealth One. The couple also operate the North America Investment and Trade Promotion Association, which pushes for close economic ties between Canada, China and the United States.

The Prime Minister has come under fire for cash-for-access fundraisers at homes or hotels where Canadians pay up to $1,525 to rub shoulders with Liberal ministers in charge of major spending and policy decisions.

Last Tuesday, Liberal MPs voted down a Conservative Party motion backed by the New Democrats that would have transferred the Open and Accountable rules on lobbying and fundraising to Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson. This would have given Ms. Dawson's office the legal power to crack down on such events.

Ms. Dawson has called the cash-for-access system "not very savoury," while federal Lobbying Commissioner Karen Shepherd has launched an investigation into the practice after Globe articles revealed that business executives with financial interests before the government were buying tickets to attend events with senior ministers.

"During their first year in office, the Liberals have held more than 80 cash-for-access fundraising events featuring lobbyists, lawyers and important stakeholder groups currently doing business with the Government of Canada," Conservative MP Blaine Calkins said.

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Seems liberals of all sorts have a problem whoring themselves out for anything it seems.

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(11-24-2016 09:36 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:  Seems liberals of all sorts have a problem whoring themselves out for anything it seems.

Google "Project Sidewinder"

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Feminist Prime Minister in Canada operating like a corrupt Banana Republic dictator while spreading "Gender Equality" in Liberia, Africa.

Why am I not surprised at this PAY FOR PLAY SCANDAL? Ontario Liberals been ALWAYS corrupt in terms of money...

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Sounds like Trudeau and Hillary were reading the same playbook. Trudeau will never prosecute himself.

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(11-24-2016 09:36 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:  Seems liberals of all sorts have a problem whoring themselves out for anything it seems.

(11-24-2016 10:37 AM)ivansirko Wrote:  Sounds like Trudeau and Hillary were reading the same playbook. Trudeau will never prosecute himself.

The Liberal Party of Canada are a gang of unprincipled weasels. A bigger organization of insincere, fundamentally dishonest, two-faced, cowardly, mediocre groupthinking cucks you will never see. Hillary would be considered top notch leadership material for them if she was a Canadian politician. They wouldn't tie their shoes without consulting a polling firm first and whatever ideology and ethos they have is limited to whatever popular yet fuzzy and ill-defined leftism is currently accepted by university educated upper-middle class white people. They appeal best to the bluest of blue pilled people.
But it don't stop them from lining their pockets from kickbacks. I dare say that's the whole point to their game.

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On the carbon tax in Canada: does it go out to some bullshit UN organism like the IPCC, or does Trulander and his blond journalist minister spread the money around to their pals and overlords? Anyone got some good links?

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(11-26-2016 12:28 PM)911 Wrote:  On the carbon tax in Canada: does it go out to some bullshit UN organism like the IPCC, or does Trulander and his blond journalist minister spread the money around to their pals and overlords? Anyone got some good links?

Looks like Trudeau just put a minimum price in place and the provinces set their rules if they want to do it as a tax or through a cap+trade market http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1132149

Ontario for example, is using a cap and trade system, trading under the "board" of the Western Climate Initiative.http://www.wci-inc.org/ Whats the "Western Climate Initiative"? Its a commodities market, like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)...except the CME actually trades real commodities, not fake units of gas that are impossible to uniquely identify. Back when i worked on government policy on this exact thing, we had calls with WCI directors and members, no one there knew how it worked except the brokers who stand to make money off of the trades done on the market. ZERO, I'll say again ZERO parts of a cap and trade system benefit the provinces/states that are a part of it financially. It only benefits "sink/offset" projects like private tree plantings, or other carbon sequestration projects like conversation easements....which again are all private enterprises.

The majority of the large offset projects are already set up, audited and registered by guess who? The same people that are brokers and set up the WCI, they now force the government to set a price and pow, they are instant billionaires.

Its very difficult to find information about how this all works, I only know because I worked on the government side of it for about 2 years and the private side for about 1 year.

At least a straight up carbon tax, lines the government coffers. Cap and trade is the government forcing people to participate in a private commodity scheme. Like manadtory insurance or obamacare.

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Troolander is getting hammered on Twitter for his faggot eulogy of Fidel Castro.





Top fucking Kek!

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At the precise moment when Trudeau, and Canada as a whole, needs political capital in Washington more than ever, he goes and does this.

I wish I could say I'm surprised, but at this point I'm really not.

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These are in the Castro thread as well but relevant to both. I'll delete one if this is breaking a rule.

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COme on guys we all know PM Zoolander's real dad is Mick Jagger.

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(11-27-2016 04:28 PM)scotian Wrote:  COme on guys we all know PM Zoolander's real dad is Mick Jagger.

Zoolander having a father that is anyone but Pierre would make sense to me. I remember reading an older article talking about how Pierre was devastated by the death of the youngest son, michel https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/201...e_man.html

and there was some speculation that it led him to depression and his own eventual death. Perhaps he was like "shit, I just lost my only non cuck son" Who knows about alexandre, at least he looks like Trudeau buy has a gay name.

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Trudeau's pre-taped message got booed at the Grey Cup (Canada's Super Bowl) in downtown Toronto last night.





More details fromGateway Pundit: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/video-canadian-pm-trudeau-booed-loudly-grey-cup-praising-dead-tyrant-fidel-castro/

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This is now the best Canadian conspiracy theory going.






To me, he will henceforth be referred to only as "Justin Castro".

EDIT:

Antonio Castro:



Justin Trudeau:



Half brothers?

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I remember I used to smash a girl who's French mother used to do development work in Cuba. She had the same tan tinge to her skin. She looked everything like her mother but nothing like her father or three brothers who all looked like dad and all had glasses like the father but she didn't need any. The timelines of when her mom was heavy in Cuba match up. It is obvious she is half Cuban. I think deep down she knows something is strange as she looks like she is adopted in family photos.

Trudeau is likely a cuckold child. But wasn't Peirce ducking around on the wife as well? The whole marriage was a mess I thought. She was a socialite whore who attempted to be reformed into some dignified woman.

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Local news now reporting that Justin Castro (thanks, DA!) will not be going to the big man's funeral:

Castro No-go

I think we need to capitalize on this and exploit the optics at every possible opportunity. Something along the lines of "this is how deep his allegiances run; the minute it's politically inopportune, he's ditching his so-called steadfast friends." Either that or start a letter-writing campaign to convince him he should be present at the funeral. Not sure which would be more damaging.

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^ I can't tell you how much I want Justin Trudeau to be Fidel Castro's son. Can any of the Canadian readers here start a petition for a paternity test?

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(11-28-2016 05:40 PM)ed pluribus unum Wrote:  Local news now reporting that Justin Castro (thanks, DA!) will not be going to the big man's funeral:

Castro No-go

I think we need to capitalize on this and exploit the optics at every possible opportunity. Something along the lines of "this is how deep his allegiances run; the minute it's politically inopportune, he's ditching his so-called steadfast friends." Either that or start a letter-writing campaign to convince him he should be present at the funeral. Not sure which would be more damaging.

I agree. Troolander's big fall is going to come from something such as this. He goes with the wind, and he has spent the past two years sucking up to the crazy left. So he just assumes that these people have his back. But the left has no ones back. Ever.

So he says what he does, possibly out of the gut feeling that his dad could very well be Castro. And if thats the case, this is kind of a sad ending to a boy of a fucked up mother. All the same though, Castro did some very fucked up things to millions of people, while also becoming one of the richest men in latin America stashing away a $1 billion.

Either way, people have woken up to what kind of leader he actually is. One with no conviction and no loyalty. He is fucked no matter what he does in this situation. He made a speech with heartfelt love for his deceased biological father and got roasted by Canadians and the world. Then he says he is not attending the funeral, where he will be roasted again, and rightly so.

I am enjoying this immensely. There are so many memes out there right now that I can't even tell which photos are of Castro and which are of Troolander.

I really don't want 2016 to end. Such a glorious year!

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So Justin will not in fact give a eulogy at Castro's funeral...

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Plan ahead and plan early for Canada Day. Please don't kill us!



Maybe we just need more rap music workshops.

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This man is a shame .... It seems like Canada is becoming the next heaven of ex-US Neo-cons /trotskiysts.......... Although I want Quebec independant and dislike Canada as an "oppressing force" , I feel sorry for all canadian citizens.