Chinese donors reportedly sought to have a statue of Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong constructed beside one of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the University of Montreal.
Chairman Mao Tse-Tung met with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau at Chungnanhai in Peking on the afternoon of Oct. 13, 1973.The Globe claimed a national security source told them Chinese billionaire donor Zhang Bin pledged a $1 million donation to the foundation after a diplomat urged him to do so and incentivized him by promising full reimbursement.
1982- Close-up of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, seated at a desk with a glass of water. Photo filed 9/8/1982., served as chairman from 1949 until 1976 and amassed approximately 65 million deaths during his tenure, according to numbers from the Heritage Foundation. Members of Red Guards, holding The Little Red Book, cheering Mao Zedong during a meeting to celebrate the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution on Tien An Men square in Pekin on August 18, 1966.
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