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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I think of myself as pretty smart, and I'm still trying to figure out how the bribes work here. I've asked twice and got one answer saying he'll become a board member and get a big salary (board members are volunteers and cannot be paid) and another with a vague reference to WE. Again, I'm not defending anyone here. I'm asking this question because I literally don't understand how a bribe to the Pierre Trudeau foundation gets into Justin Trudeau's pockets.
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Well, his family members are employed by the foundation. I think there are numerous potential ways that foundation money could find itself back in family hands, here are some examples:
- speaking event fees. Foundation throws an event and invites a famed family member to speak. Family member is paid a speaking fee. I seem to recall the PMs mother charging upwards of several hundred thousand for this.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mar...rity-1.5643586
There's the article. It was actually from another charity fiasco (I had already completely forgotten about WE, wow...)
- The retirement scheme you mention is valid, but with executives instead of board members. Charities can pay executives, and can pay them quite well.
- Money flow through; i.e. flow through bribes. Say Trudeau needed to bribe someone or buy influence. Well, he could have the foundation employ someone who he needs to buy influence from. The foundation having money to bribe people on his behalf would thus be similar to him just having that money himself.
- Potentially the foundation could be buying them trips or small gifts. It would be interesting to know if the foundation has a yearly retreat or board meeting somewhere nice.