A controversial $140,000 donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has not yet been returned because the charity has been unable to find anyone able to accept the payment, say sources who have spoken with Radio-Canada.
Last month, the Globe and Mail reported that Zhang Bin — a businessman later identified by the newspaper as being linked to the Chinese government — pledged in 2016 to donate $200,000 to the foundation that bears the name of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s father.
Shortly after that report, foundation president Pascale Fournier said the foundation had reimbursed the full amount of the donation.
The foundation said in a media statement late Wednesday that “a reimbursement cheque
