WE Charity pulled out of the deal last Friday after a week of controversy surrounding both how it received the CSSG contract and its management of the program
. Trudeau then announced that the government would take over the grant program that will pay eligible volunteers between $1,000 and $5,000 for work done until October 31, 2020.
The department did not explain why it would not provide a list of the “various” organizations it considered to administer the student grant program.Article content continued “There is no good reason to keep that information secret. It’s key to have that information disclosed to ensure that the public’s money is spent efficiently and effectively in every situation,” Democracy Watch co-founder Duff Conacher said in an interview.
According to ESDC, the nature of the student volunteer grant program required it to find one single organization that could orchestrate it all, rather than a collection of smaller non-profit groups. From that point on, some of the features that set WE Charity apart from the other not-for-profits were its “large scale reach” extending to 2.4 million young Canadians, its “extensive network and infrastructure”, its connections to other not-for-profits and its ability to operate digitally.
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