UPDATED: Feds to face grilling as study into WE Charity student grant deal gets underway
MPs on the House of Commons Finance Committee will be hearing from their first group of witnesses, including Bardish Chagger, the youth minister responsible for the program rollout.
It was later revealed that Finance Minister Bill Morneau also has family members who are involved with the organization.
The purpose of bringing the prime minister before the panel of MPs would be to extract more details around his family’s connections to the charity group.
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