The negotiations that led to a controversial donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation were conducted with a Chinese cultural association with ties to the Chinese government, the former president of the foundation told members of Parliament on Friday.
Testifying before the House of Commons ethics committee, Pascale Fournier said she dug into past e-mails related to the 2016 donation that had been attributed to two Chinese businessmen — Bin Zhang and Niu Gensheng — after news reports earlier this year raised questions about whether the donation had been made at the behest of the Chinese government.
Fournier said the e-mails revealed the
