NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on the prime minister to waive cabinet confidentiality and release all documents around the WE agreement.
Shugart said the first tranche of funding for grants in exchange for volunteer hours was to be $500 million, with a budget ceiling of $912 million.
“The public service took a look at the ways they could deliver that program and determined that the WE organization was the only one that could deliver that program as ambitious as it was this summer,” Trudeau said. What this scandal has done is really rocked the confidence of people in a government that doesn't seem to be acting for the interest of people...Rachel Wernick, a senior ESDC official, called WE co-founder Craig Kielburger on April 19, at which time she and from what the Shugart said Tuesday, the Privy Council Office as well, learned of the original proposal.
Shugart said the Privy Council Office asked about running a competitive process to oversee the grants, and ministers questioned whether WE Charity could deliver on what the government wanted. He said all were confident in the recommendation to go with the group.In early July, the organization handed back control of the program to the government.
He said the affair raises concerns about the Liberals’ handling of emergency aid programs to help Canadians concerned about their jobs, finances and health.
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