Scheer demands Canada pull funds from Chinese multilateral development bank

Source: Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press, April 29

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to answer China’s ban on Canadian canola shipments by pulling hundreds of millions of dollars Ottawa has committed to Beijing’s multilateral development bank.

Scheer held a news conference Monday to press Trudeau to address the canola feud by cutting off Canada’s funding commitment to China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, to which the Liberal government has committed $256 million over five years.

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