'Why didn't you tell us you met with Craig Kielburger?' NDP MP Charlie Angus and Minister Bardish Chagger had a tense exchange during the ethics committee investigation into the government's aborted contract with WE Charity. More here:
Youth Minister Bardish Chagger, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough, Clerk of the Privy Council Ian Shugart and former ethics commissioner Mary Dawson are all slated to speak about the issue during Tuesday's meeting, which is currently ongoing.
Qualtrough, on the other hand, hasn’t been overly involved in the decision-making process throughout this scandal. However, Employment and Social Development Canada was the department within which staff concluded WE Charity was the only organization capable of delivering the program, according to the government.
Trudeau's mother, Margaret Trudeau, spoke at approximately 28 WE Charity events and was paid $250,000 in speaking honorariums between 2016 and 2020. His brother, Alexandre Trudeau, also spoke at eight WE Charity events from 2017 to 2018 and was paid a total of approximately $32,000. Morneau has apologized for the "error" and said it was his full intention to cover the full cost of the trips — though he only last month repaid the $41,000 the charity had initially covered related to the trips to Kenya and Ecuador. The finance minister's daughter Clare has also spoken at WE events, and his daughter Grace is currently employed by WE Charity.
"I wanted to push back and really make sure that everyone could say without a shadow of a doubt that this was…the way to deliver the program recommended by our outstanding and professional public servants," Trudeau said in a press conference July 31.
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