A special summer question period session got off to an acrimonious start with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer engaging in a fiery back and forth over the ongoing WE Charity volunteer grant controversy on Tuesday.
With Trudeau in the House of Commons to face opposition questioning over the affair for the first timethat members of his family were paid a total of nearly $300,000 over the last four years to speak at WE Charity events, he faced a barrage of inquiries into his role in deciding to outsource the now-halted government grant program to the organization.
Trudeau then said that, given the topic of the day was passing billions more in updated COVID-19 aid programs, he thought “that there might be a question from the opposition on that.”
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