WE Charity is shedding more light on a controversial email from co-founder Craig Kielburger to then-finance minister Bill Morneau this spring, saying it was about a possible second wave of COVID-19 -- not securing government business.
The message was among thousands of pages of documents about the WE Charity affair the Liberal government released this week as it prorogued Parliament.
"We'd love to learn about the attached documents in it, but unfortunately, in what is to become a trend throughout this package, all the relevant information in the two documents are completely blacked out," Poilievre said. "During that call Minister Morneau asked general questions about Mr. Kielburger's view of the non-for profit sector and youth. There were no discussions of the program in this call," WE Charity's statement said.
"I realize that your team provides you access to extraordinary data," Kielburger wrote in the email. "If helpful, attached are two documents." On April 20, Amitpal Singh, a policy adviser to Morneau, emailed a Finance Department official to say he had spoken with the team at WE that morning.
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