Roundup: Governance troubles at the Trudeau Foundation

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It sounds like things may have been worse off at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation than was initially believed as the CEO and board resigned. According to La Presse, there may have been bigger governance issues as they discovered that their attempt to return the $140,000 donation from that Chinese businessman (which wasn’t the $200,000 initially promised/reported) was met with revelations that names and businesses didn’t match up and there was nobody there to return the money to. That points to a lack of due diligence within the organisation, and in light of that, they have called in an outside investigator. None of this excuses the myriad of conspiracy theories that have been built up around Foundation, nor is the prime minister implicated in any of this as it all happened after he left the organisation, but it’s not a good look for them.

And because he continues to want to be a shitposting edgelord rather than a serious politician, Pierre Poilievre sent a juvenile letter to David Johnston yesterday, reflective of the seriousness of the situation of foreign interference allegations. Our democracy is in trouble.

Ukraine Dispatch:

Ukrainian forces continue to rebut the Russian Wagner Group claims that they have all-but entirely captured Bakhmut. Ukrainian officials have launched an investigation into a video that purports to show Russians beheading a Ukrainian soldier in a war crime.

https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1646183682833629184

Good reads:

  • Justin Trudeau was in Winnipeg on his budget sales tour, and remarked on the province not recognizing Orange Shirt Day, and the fake uproar over resource rights.
  • Chrystia Freeland told an audience in Washington to beware sabotaging competition with a “race to the bottom” on green subsidies.
  • Jean-Yves Duclos says he’s working with provinces to ensure that another mass export of drugs like Ozempic to the US because of a loophole doesn’t happen again.
  • Marco Mendicino held a consultation in Vancouver on foreign interference and said the tales there demonstrated the need for a foreign agent registry.
  • The government has now resettled 30,000 of the promised 40,000 Afghans in Canada (with efforts hampered by getting people to safety before transport).
  • One of the largest public sector unions has voted to go to a strike position, though the government says they are making headway with negotiations.
  • A group of parliamentarians is currently visiting Taiwan (paid for by the Taiwanese government because our Parliament won’t do it).
  • Because he’d rather be a shitposting edgelord than Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre asked Elon Musk to tag the CBC as “government-funded media,” like Tass.
  • Kevin Carmichael walks through the Bank of Canada’s data and guidance as they held interest rates steady for another month.
  • Patricia Treble rounds up everything we know about the coronation thus far.
  • Susan Delacourt tees up the Katie Telford testimony on Friday with a reminder of just who Telford is and what she has accomplished to date.

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