Toronto-based filmmaker Doris Liu says the core nature of the Confucius Institute — Chinese government-funded language schools — is to "propagate the Chinese government's ideology" behind the facade of a cultural organization. This challenge led McMaster to close its office of the Confucius Institute for good in 2013. Sonia Zhao in front of the McMaster University's Confucius Institute, which was already closed, in 2014. And once I started to ask them questions about the controversies surrounding the CI [Confucius Institute] program, they became unhappy and unwilling to continue the discussion. In 2014, the Toronto District School Board ended a planned partnership with Confucius Institute, citing the partnership was "not aligned with TDSB and community values."

Source: CBC News February 28, 2020 02:42 UTC