Politics Insider for Aug. 12: The anonymous knives are out for the finance minister, Carla Qualtrough has some blunt talk and get ready for a drunken invasion of Canada
during testimony yesterday on the WE scandal. The minister said her government “dropped the ball” on the student grant program, and offered “no excuse or justification” for the mess. She did qualify her remarks. “It was a pandemic and things were crazy and we were going at,” she said. “We knew from the start things would not be perfect, and we were prepared to have to course correct when we needed.
There wasLast week, your newsletter correspondent spotted a briefing note for Lobbying Commissionerfiled an access-to-information request for the note, and the office sent it in only 80 minutes—which might be the. The staffer who wrote the note flagged that some critics might see the report as “political” or “opportunistic,” and possibly even premature. But the plan is to aim for a release as early as this fall.
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