The person ultimately responsible for the decision to cancel six performances of @ShenYun at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto is the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company, David C. Ferguson. Based on publicly available information, Ferguson’s connections with China can be outlined as follows:

💥 From 1999 to 2012, David C. Ferguson served as Executive Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of BMO Capital Markets. During his tenure, BMO (China) Co., Ltd. was established in China in 2010.

According to the official website of the Bank of Montreal (BMO):
“Our presence in Greater China is significant. In September 2010, we officially opened our Mainland China incorporated subsidiary bank, Bank of Montreal (China) Co. Ltd. We are the first and only Canadian bank, and amongst a select number of North American banks to operate an incorporated subsidiary in Mainland China ...Today, Bank of Montreal (China) Co. Ltd. has branches in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.”
As CFO, David C. Ferguson played an important role in the financial decision-making and structural approval related to the establishment of BMO (China) Co., Ltd.

💥 In 2012, David C. Ferguson retired from BMO, with a transition period from 2012 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019, he served as Board of Directors and its Audit Committee of Hydrogenics Corporation, a Canadian hydrogen energy company.

💥 During his tenure, in 2016, Hydrogenics entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Beijing-based SinoHytec. The agreement included joint development of fuel cell power modules and the supply of power systems specifically designed for the Chinese market.
According to Hydrogenics’ website:

“The power systems will be integrated into buses and trucks from several leading vehicle manufacturers in China during 2016 and 2017, and the total value of the contract is approximately $13.5 million.”

💥 In 2017, Hydrogenics signed another agreement with Beijing Blue-G New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (“Blue-G”), involving the purchase and licensing of fuel cell technology.
Under the agreement, Hydrogenics will deliver 1,000 fuel cell units to Blue-G to be integrated into zero-emission electric buses and an engineering support component for an aggregate sum payable to the Company of over USD 50 million.The agreement was expected to run until around 2020.

Incremental are license royalties which are expected to generate revenues for the Company over a 10-year period.

💥 In 2024, David C. Ferguson became the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company, the parent organization of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto.

In April 2026, during Shen Yun Performing Arts’ scheduled performances at the Four Seasons Centre, a bomb threat—later confirmed by police to be false—occurred. Despite this, the theatre insisted on canceling all remaining five performances of Shen Yun.

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