Check back here for live updates when WE's former board chair and founders speak to the House finance committee as it investigates the Trudeau cabinet's controversial contract to the group
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.WE Charity’s former Canadian board of directors quit in March because “I could not do my job” and executives wouldn’t hand over financial documents related to its firing of staff, she told the House finance committee on Tuesday. Michelle Douglas is giving her testimony now before WE founders Craig and Marc Kielburger speak at 1.
It’s been just over a month since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement that WE Charity would run a $912-million grant program sparked questions about whether he and his family’s past connections to the group put him in a conflict of interest. of what we know so far about how the program was conceived, how WE was put in charge of it and how it was quickly cancelled.to the finance committee, which sitting prime ministers have rarely done, and never before in a controversy of this kind. His chief of staff, Katie Telford, also speaks on Thursday.A human-rights activist and former public servant, Ms.
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