The daughter of a wealthy Vancouver developer who is currently wanted for corruption charges in China ended her tenure as President of British Columbia’s Young Liberals of Canada this month.
Linda Ching had been among the party since 2012 and was acting president for the 2014-2015 schedule. Interviews, online accounts, and photographs showed the young liberal with many prominent federal and provincial Liberal Party figures at both public and private events.
Sources from the party had told reporters the Honourable Raymond Chan, a former Minister of State for Multiculturalism, had backed Linda Ching’s election slate.
“I know Linda Ching fairly well,” one source told The Province, “She ran at the end of 2012 for a VP position on the Young Liberals executive and she ran for that with the national Young Liberals president. He was the B.C. Young Liberal president before that, so Linda succeeded him.”
In her place, a new president has been named at a party meeting this week. According to the party, Dario Garousian will take her place.
In interviews, several LPC sources also told The Province  that in late 2012, then 16-years old, Linda Ching quickly rose to the top of the party’s youth wing, backed by the former Richmond Liberal MP and cabinet minister Raymond Chan who was a key figure in the party’s B.C. power structure and ethnic voting campaigns.

A Father Wanted For Corruption

Her father, who is known in Canada as Michael Ching or as Mo Yeung Ching, is wanted in Beijing under the Mandarin version of his name, Muyang Cheng. He is wanted on allegations of political corruption. However, Lawyers for Mr. Ching have denied all allegations.

Linda Ching’s profile picture taken from her twitter page.
Michael Ching, who has donated thousands of dollars to the LPC and its leader Justin Trudeau as well as the B.C. Liberals, is reportedly a close friend and backer of Chan’s. However, in 2008, the Honourable Chan lost his seat to Conservative Alice Wong.
Then in 2012, Michael Ching and Raymond Chan emerged as leading fundraisers for the new LPC leader Justin Trudeau when he gained leadership of the party. It was around this time Raymond Chan started to promote Linda Ching as a rising political star in the party.
Through his lawyers, Michael Ching has said he will not take questions from media. According to Linda Ching’s own claims, after working on Chan’s 2008 campaign, she soon became leader of several party organizations and the Tru-Youths United, a politically-active group of Chinese youth linked to Raymond Chan.
“In 2011, interim leader Bob Rae recruited Honourable Raymond Chan to help rebuild the party, and I have been part of the team since,” Linda Ching wrote in the 2013 National Women’s Liberal Commission Newsletter, “A year later when Justin Trudeau announced his candidacy in 2012, I was invited to introduce him (at) his first event in British Columbia. Since then I have helped Justin build an incredibly strong campaign team of … over one hundred active youth volunteers and founded a youth group, Tru-Youths United … We signed up over one thousand supporters for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal leadership campaign … at the Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown alone, our 40 volunteers signed up over 200 supporters for Justin. Then for Justin’s celebration fundraising dinner on June 2, 2013, I was presented with the opportunity to act as one of two Masters of Ceremonies for the entire event.”
Despite allegations against her family member, a spokesperson for the LPC said that Linda Ching stepped down as president of B.C.’s Young Liberals of Canada because their constitutions dictates they must at the end of her term.