A CCP-linked Chinese billionaire who donated to the alma mater of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and toward erecting a statue of him, also wanted the university to put up a statue of former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong.
Jeff Heinrich, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, told The Epoch Times that the institution in 2016 received $550,000 from Zhang Bin and another donor, Niu Gensheng, which went toward establishing the Bin Zhang-Niu Gensheng Chinese-Canadian Scholarship Fund, although a final payment of $250,000 was never made.
