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One further point that most people do not understand. As someone who is part of a family that set up a foundation in our name, there is no way that any member of our family has now or will ever have access to money that is currently invested in the foundation. There were three primary reasons for setting up the foundation in the first place. The first was taxes. After we sold a family business, part of the proceeds from that sale went into the foundation, to minimize the tax implications. The second, was to have funds available to my husband and I, and eventually the extended family to donate to charities we support. And finally the third, was to ensure that these funds could not be used for anything other than doing good in the world. In other words. No member of the family has access to these funds. This whole China/Trudeau Foundation connection is all smoke and mirrors.

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We hear Chinese influence and election interference shouting from almost every Postmedia owned newspaper while their "reporters" go about doing the exact same thing they accuse the Chinese of. Except there is SILENCE from the CPC on that interference. I think this has become a case of "we know we can't win, so we'll break it".

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Bad and sloppy reporting along with conservative "guilt by association" political tactics has pretty well destroyed the We Charity. No one seems to recognize that non-profits need the support of quite the same sort of people as those who might run for office one day or devote themselves to other forms of public service.

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Note, the Rouleau Commission reported Feb 17. Fife's diabolical deflection from the Convoy decision was a valuable political contribution/consideration to Poilievre, Ford and the Cons. The Globe is in the gutter.

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Good stuff. Also waiting for Fife or anyone else to verify this story, showing that the leak(s) is/are real and not just someone with a personal beef, or the CPC looking for ANYthing they can fling.

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What an excellent and thoughtful column -- great summary of the chaos that Bob Fife and the boys are doing in their pellmell rush to get Trudeau to resign.

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It’s not free first charity the CPC has gone after, and likely not the last. Crippling charities for progressive causes will continue to be under fire from the right.

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This whole China political interference thing blew up in alberta about 10 years ago. Frankly, I’m surprised at all the surprise. We have strong Chinese interference in our cities, our policing, in our universities because the Chinese can and do buy a great deal of good will. In the city of Edmonton, the Chinese diaspora is lobbying against drug harm reduction sites and more punitive policing instead.

Spying is generally not talked about in the media, because then you give all your spies access to the information you have on them. So this whole not talking about spies that the opposition is so concerned with, frankly puzzles me. I think instead, we should simply ask all former citizens of other countries to put Canadian interests first when they become Canadian citizens, making it clear that to do otherwise is treasonous. Apparently this hasn’t been explicitly expressed to our new citizens.

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ain’t read it yet.. but know it gonna be scrumptious !

These dread dayz we desperately need fearless voices

unafraid to confront ‘opinionation’ pretending as ‘journalism’

I jumped all over Ms Delacourt the other day

yet today lauded her on how she redeemed herself

with a Great informative Perspective Re Mr David Johnson ..

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