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I see that Malpeque MP and Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Heath MacDonald will be joining Prime Minister Mark Carney on a state visit to communist China this week to discuss trade matters. I have every confidence that Minister MacDonald will use the opportunity to bring to President Xi’s attention the mounting anger on P.E.I. about the links between Xi’s Beijing government and the Great Wisdom Buddhist Institute and the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society located in King’s County.

Concerns over stories of communist Chinese money-laundering, illegal land sales and elite capture on P.E.I. have shocked public opinion across the province and drawn national media attention. Recent news of IRAC’s failure to produce its promised 2018 report on Buddhist land holdings on P.E.I. has led to calls — notably by Wayne Easter, MacDonald’s predecessor as Malpeque MP — for a national inquiry into the matter with full subpoena powers and access to intelligence briefings.

I am also confident that the Malpeque MP will remind Xi that the federal Hogue Commission reported last year that communist China is one of the major perpetrators of foreign interference in Canadian institutions. This, after all, will only reinforce what I am sure the minister of agriculture has told PM Carney about P.E.I.’s........

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