Corruption Connection Ledger
The structural claim of the NGO & lobbyist registry is that the same handful of named individuals reappear as the bridges between institutions. This page names those bridges, draws the concise hub diagram, and lists every documented public-record connection per person.
Across the six categories of the NGO & lobbyist registry — Liberal-aligned think tanks, business-axis foundations, charity-front controversies, conservative-aligned think tanks, international network points, and ESG-aligned ENGOs — the same handful of named individuals reappears as bridge points. The diagram below renders the eight highest-connection nodes; the ledger below the diagram lists every documented public-record connection per person, with cross-link to the dedicated dossier where one exists.
1. The hub diagram
Eight highest-connection bridge people. Solid lines: primary ties to PM (e.g. Morneau as cabinet minister, Aga Khan as host of the breach-finding vacation, Kielburgers via WE / family payments). Dashed lines: secondary documented ties between non-PM bridge people. Click through the connection-ledger cards below for the per-tie source list.
2. The connection ledger — per bridge, every documented tie
Justin Trudeau
PM 2015– · the centre node · 4 ethics findings (Trudeau I–IV)
- Trudeau Foundation — on board until 2014; family name on Foundation; brother Alexandre on board during 2023 mass-resignation. dossier
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada — Trudeau II Report (2017) found 4 COIA section breaches on the 2016 Bell Island vacation. dossier
- WE Charity / Kielburger — Trudeau IV Report (2021) cleared the PM personally on CSSG; family payments ~$282K to mother and brother. dossier
- SNC-Lavalin / Wilson-Raybould — Trudeau III Report (2019), AG-removal matter. See ethics-failures.html
- WEF — speaker / participant; spouse Sophie WEF Young Global Leaders alumna. See wef-davos.html
Bill Morneau
Finance Minister 2015–Aug 2020 · resigned 17 August 2020
- WE Charity — ~$41,366 family travel (Kenya / Ecuador 2017) paid by WE; repaid only after FINA committee testimony. dossier
- Trudeau IV / Morneau II — Ethics Commissioner found Morneau in breach of the Conflict of Interest Act on the Kenya travel. dossier
- Morneau Shepell — family pension-consulting business (declared on disclosure). See ethics-failures.html
- Resignation — resigned cabinet + Toronto Centre seat 17 August 2020; later sought OECD position.
Mark Carney
Bank of Canada Gov 2008–13 · Bank of England Gov 2013–20 · Brookfield Vice-Chair 2020–24 · Liberal Leader / PM
- Brookfield Asset Management — Vice-Chair / Head of Transition Investing 2020–2024. dossier · brookfield-maid.html
- WEF Young Global Leaders — publicly listed alumnus. carney-wef.html · wef-davos.html
- Trilateral Commission — publicly-listed North American member.
- Bilderberg — multiple-year attendee on the public attendee list.
- UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance — appointed 2019.
André Desmarais
Power Corporation of Canada · Demarais family controlling shareholder · deceased 2024
- Power Corporation of Canada — long-time Co-CEO and Deputy Chairman; family controlling stake. Full dossier: power-corporation.html.
- Canada-China Business Council — long-time chair. See registry §5.
- Pargesa Holding — Power Corp's European holdings vehicle.
- Great-West Life / IGM Financial — Power Corp portfolio.
- Liberal-cabinet historical interlocks — the Demarais family is documented across multiple federal Liberal cabinets over decades. See family-connections.html and follow-the-money.html
Aga Khan IV (Karim Aga Khan)
49th hereditary Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims · founder of the Aga Khan Development Network
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada — Canadian arm of the AKDN, federally-registered lobbyist with Global Affairs Canada partnerships. dossier
- Order of Canada — Honorary Companion (2005, under PM Paul Martin).
- 2016 Bell Island vacation — host of the family vacation that triggered the Trudeau II 4-section COIA breach finding.
Marc & Craig Kielburger
WE Charity co-founders · ME to WE Social Enterprise commercial arm
- Free The Children → WE Charity — Marc and Craig founded as Free The Children 1995 (Craig age 12); rebranded ~2016. dossier
- ME to WE Social Enterprise Inc. — commercial sister entity; sold consumer goods under the WE brand.
- WE Charity Foundation — legal counterparty to the cancelled 2020 CSSG contract.
- Trudeau-family payments — Margaret Trudeau ~$250K, Alexandre Trudeau ~$32K (per FINA committee record).
- Defamation litigation — multiple suits against Canadian media outlets (Canadaland, CTV) post-2020.
Tom Pitfield
Canada 2020 co-founder · senior Liberal Party digital strategist
- Canada 2020 — co-founder; long-time Liberal-aligned think tank. See registry §1.
- Liberal Party of Canada — senior digital adviser to the Justin Trudeau leadership campaign and the 2015 election.
- Anna Gainey (spouse) — former president of the Liberal Party of Canada.
- Aga Khan Bell Island vacation 2016 — the travel party included Pitfield's spouse Anna Gainey, per Trudeau II Report record.
Dominic Barton
McKinsey global managing partner 2009–18 · Ambassador to China 2019–21
- McKinsey & Company — global managing partner 2009–2018.
- Century Initiative — co-founder; population-to-100M-by-2100 framing. century-initiative.html
- Ambassador of Canada to the People's Republic of China — appointed by PM Trudeau, served 2019–2021.
- Rio Tinto — chair of the global mining major.
- Federal advisory committee chair — Advisory Council on Economic Growth (2016 onward).
Pascale Fournier
Trudeau Foundation Chair / President & CEO until April 2023
- Trudeau Foundation — chair, president and CEO; resigned 11 April 2023 with seven other directors. dossier
- PROC committee testimony — on-record statements naming pressure she said came from another director, the PM's brother Alexandre, on the 2016 Zhang/Niu donation framing.
- Returned-donation arrangement — Foundation announcement to return the disbursed portion of the 2016 donation followed her tenure.
Edward Greenspon
Public Policy Forum (long-time president) · ex-Globe and Mail editor-in-chief
- Public Policy Forum — long-time president and CEO. See registry §1.
- Shattered Mirror report (2017) — PPF study commissioned by federal government on the Canadian news ecosystem; informed the $595M media-aid package. See media-capture.html
- The Globe and Mail — former editor-in-chief.
3. The concentration pattern
Across the ten bridge people above, a small set of institutional repetitions are visible:
- The PM's office sits in the centre. Of the ten bridges, all ten have a documented tie either directly to the PM (Morneau, Carney as successor) or to an institution in which the PM's family or his cabinet had a documented role (Trudeau Foundation, AKFC, WE, Power Corp, Canada 2020).
- Three institutions repeat across multiple bridges: the WEF (Trudeau, Carney; Sophie YGL alumna), the Trilateral Commission (Carney; Bay-Street historical members), and Power Corp / Demarais (André Desmarais; Liberal-cabinet historical interlocks; Canada-China Business Council).
- The 2016 Aga Khan vacation brought together: PM Trudeau, his family, Liberal MP Seamus O'Regan, Liberal Party president Anna Gainey, Tom Pitfield (Canada 2020), and the Aga Khan IV. One trip. Five named bridges out of the ten on this page.
- Three of the ten bridges resigned, were found in breach, or had their institution wound down within the public-record period (Morneau resigned; Trudeau-IV breach on Morneau; Trudeau-II breach on PM; WE wound down 2020; Trudeau Foundation chair resigned 2023).
4. What this page does not assert
Editorial framing.
This page does not assert that any named individual has committed a criminal offence within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court or the Criminal Code of Canada. It does not assert that any documented connection — board membership, federal funding partnership, registered-lobbyist status, family relationship — is per se illegal. It asserts only that the connections are on the public record, that the registries naming them are statutorily independent, and that the ten bridge people above interlock, in the documented pattern shown, across the registry's institutional categories. The reader is invited to draw their own structural conclusions from the public-record facts.
Related dossiers
Primary sources
- Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner — Trudeau I–IV reports
- Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada — public registry
- House of Commons committees — PROC, FINA, ETHI, OGGO evidence
- CRA Charities Directorate — T3010 returns
- World Economic Forum — Young Global Leaders public roster
- Trilateral Commission — public membership rosters
Primary records on this file.
Corruption Connection Ledger. A TENET5 public-record file — open the primary sources cited on this page before treating any figure as settled.