Category: Asian Infrastructure Bank

Tories Ask Ethics Watchdog to Confirm Whether Trudeau Disclosed 2016 Book Deal With CCP-Controlled Publisher

The Conservative Party is seeking confirmation from the federal ethics commissioner as to whether clearance was sought on a book deal with a Chinese state-owned publishing house that republished Justin Trudeau’s private memoirs in 2016. “I am writing to you about concerns raised by an article published today in the Globe and Mail entitled ‘Justin…


Conservatives Call on Liberals to Stop Payments to Chinese Infrastructure Bank

OTTAWA—The Conservatives are calling on the Liberal government to stop making payments to the Asian Infrastructure Bank in light of the ongoing detention and lack of transparency around the trials of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in China. The party’s foreign-affairs critic Michael Chong says it’s unacceptable that Canada would send about US$40 million to…