Connections between a charity and top Liberals have raised another conflict-of-interest controversy around Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Here's what you need to know
for not recusing themselves from a cabinet decision about WE Charity’s now-cancelled contract for the Canada Student Service Grant, despite their personal and family ties to the organization. Justin Trudeau’s family members have been paid to take part in WE Charity events and Bill Morneau’s daughter is a contract employee there.
WE Charity’s past payments to the Prime Minister’s wife, mother and brother for speaking engagements have raised questions about another Trudeau relative’s compensation: Kyle Kemper, Mr. Trudeau’s half-brother, who was to take part in a Swiss cryptocurrency conference. Mr. Kemper, former director of the Blockchain Association of Canada, says the engagement had nothing to do with his family.Craig and Marc Kielburger, co-founders of WE Charity, speak at a 2019 event in California.An education and international-aid group, WE Charity started life in the 1990s as Free the Children, founded by Canadian anti-child-labour activists Craig and Marc Kielburger.
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