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19.10.2020 / 17:26

NDP to seek compromise on request for WE Charity docs after Liberal filibuster

NDP is looking to bring a probe of the WE Charity affair back on track by attempting to narrow a request for Trudeau family speaking records to just those pertaining to the prime minister and his wife.NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus said in an interview with Global News that he hopes the compromise can move the work forward after the Liberals “completely stonewalled” the House of Commons ethics committee.

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Opposition parties promise to renew WE Charity investigation when Parliament resumes

Liberal government over the WE controversy and preparations for the second wave of COVID-19.Conservative health critic Michelle Rempel Garner on Sunday called for a House of Commons committee to investigate what she suggested was Ottawa’s lack of readiness in dealing with the recent resurgence in COVID-19 cases.The request was in relation to a motion that she made to the Commons health committee earlier this month asking for a wide-ranging study on the issue, which is expected to be debated by committee members on Monday.“Today, as businesses are closed and in another series of COVID-related economic shutdowns, we are looking for answers as to why the federal government left Canadians unprepared to deal with this second wave,” Rempel Garner

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WE Charity closing operations in Canada, Kielburger brothers to step down

WE Charity says it is closing its Canadian operations, blaming COVID-19 and the political fallout from the Liberal government’s plan to have it run a multimillion-dollar student-volunteer program for leaving it in financial ruin.Craig and Marc Kielburger, who are also planning to step down from the organization they co-founded, were set to release an open letter explaining the move.“COVID-19 disrupted every aspect of our work,” the brothers wrote in the letter Wednesday. “The fallout from the Canada Student Service Grant has placed us as a charity in the middle of political battles and misinformation that we are ill-equipped to fight.

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Documents requested by House prove youth minister was key driver in WE decision: NDP

New Democrats are citing recently released documents as proof that Youth Minister Bardish Chagger was the key driver in the Liberal government’s decision to have WE Charity administer a multimillion-dollar student-volunteer program.NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus levelled the charge against Chagger Tuesday, alleging the documents released last month directly contradict the Liberals’ assertion that public servants recommended WE’s run the now-defunct Canada Student Service Grant.The documents had been requested by the House of Commons finance committee as part of an investigation of the government’s deal with WE, which the Toronto-based youth organization backed out of in early July amid political controversy.

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Trudeau prorogues Parliament — what exactly does that mean?

Justin Trudeau on Tuesday as he announced intentions to prorogue Parliament until Sept. 23 — a move that would effectively kill any unfinished business, including bills and committees, ongoing in the current session.“Today, I have asked the governor general to prorogue Parliament, which must happen before any government can present a throne speech,” he said.The move comes hours after Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was sworn in to replace Bill Morneau, becoming the country’s first female finance minister.

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WE Charity lays off dozens in Canada and U.K., looks to sell real estate

WE Charity is scaling back its operations, making dozens of layoffs in Canada and the United Kingdom and looking to sell some of its real estate holdings in Toronto.The charity has been embroiled in a political controversy since the Trudeau government chose it to run a now-abandoned youth volunteer program.

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Conservatives seek investigation into Canada’s outsourced $84M rent subsidy program

coronavirus pandemic, which was awarded to a company where the spouse of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, holds a senior vice-president position.Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre said he would be submitting a request to the lobbying commissioner for an investigation on Monday.“So often when governments make programs unnecessarily complicated, it’s not out of incompetence, it’s because somebody stands to benefit from all of the complexity,” he said. What is the WE Charity scandal and who are the Kielburger brothers? “We want to know how that decision happened.

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Nearly half of Canadians support new election if WE probe finds Trudeau broke ethics law: poll

Justin Trudeau to have violated the Conflict of Interest Act again over the WE charity affair, a new poll suggests.The survey by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies also suggests the WE controversy has taken a bite out of Trudeau’s popularity, as well as that of the federal Liberal party, putting the Conservatives within striking distance of victory. Trudeau says he didn’t know WE Charity might get grant until matter came to cabinet “To me these are numbers that will certainly worry or concern the Liberals at this moment because even though it’s in the summer, this is raising a lot of eyebrows,” said Leger executive vice-president Christian Bourque.The online poll of 1,531 adult Canadians took place July 31 to Aug.

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5 takeaways from Trudeau’s testimony in WE Charity scandal investigation

Justin Trudeau was in the hot seat Thursday as he testified to the House of Commons finance committee about his role in the decision to give WE Charity a sole-sourced deal to administer a $912-million student grant program.Trudeau and his chief of staff Katie Telford both expressed regret that the prime minister did not recuse himself from the decision, given the charity’s long history with members of both Trudeau’s and Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s families.

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Trudeau says he didn’t know WE Charity might get grant until matter came to cabinet

Justin Trudeau says he didn’t know anything about a decision to give a sole-sourced deal to administer a $912-million student grant program to the WE Charity until the matter was set to come before his cabinet in early May.Trudeau is the latest and most high-profile witness asked to come before the House of Commons finance committee to explain why the government thought it was a good idea to give the controversial charity a sole-sourced deal to run a student grant program, despite its close ties to his family.“I did absolutely nothing to influence that recommendation. I didn’t even know it had been made until May 8,” Trudeau said in his opening statement to the committee.

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WE Charity paid U.S. consultants who provide ‘combative media training’: tax records

WE Charity paid over US$600,000 to American political consulting firms, including one linked to the Republican Party that specializes in “combative media training,” according to tax documents.Internal Revenue Service filings for the fiscal year ending in August 2019 show the U.S. arm of the Toronto-based charity paid three firms a total of US$605,853, including $130,000 to Firehouse Strategies.

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WE Charity founders say group ‘far from perfect,’ defend program launched while ‘scrambling’

WE Charity, Craig and Marc Kielburger, defended what they billed as the good intentions behind a sole-sourced contract for their group to administer a federal student service grant program worth nearly a billion dollars.The two spoke Tuesday as part of House of Commons finance committee hearings into the WE Charity scandal, which is working to determine how an organization with close financial ties to prominent members of the government received a sole-sourced contract to run the Canada Student Service Grant.WE Charity grant agreement planned to spend roughly half of promised amount, documents showAdministering that program would have seen the organization receive some $43 million.It has already received roughly $30 million of that but says

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Trudeau and chief of staff to testify on WE controversy Thursday

Justin Trudeau is to testify Thursday afternoon about his government’s decision to get the WE organization to run a summer student-volunteer program.His chief of staff Katie Telford is to follow him for questioning by the House of Commons finance committee.

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Trudeau gov. contract for $912M student program was with WE Charity’s real estate holding foundation

Justice Trudeau’s government awarded the contract to run the $912-million student volunteer program to a foundation that only received charity status last year and whose stated purpose was to “hold real estate,” newly released records show.Both a government and charity official confirmed the controversial Canada Student Service Grant contract was not with WE Charity, as Trudeau announced.Rather, the government gave the contract to the WE Charity Foundation, which is a distinct charity with no track record.The WE Charity Foundation was incorporated as recently as January 2018.

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WE Charity tries to ‘set record straight’ over contract in full-page newspaper ads

WE Charity is appealing to Canadians, wanting to “set the record straight” as it continues to be embroiled in controversy over a contract awarded by the Liberal government.In full-page ads in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star on Monday, the organization’s co-founders told readers they agreed to take on the $900-million student volunteer program “because we have 25 years of experience building youth service programs that are in 7,000 Canadian schools engaging students to support 3,000+ charities and causes.”Craig and Marc Kielburger laid out four “answers” to “valid questions” they say have persisted since the contract for the Canada Student Service Grant program was first announced in June.

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WE charity to stop handling coronavirus student volunteer program after backlash

WE organization won’t manage the federal government’s $900-million program to pay students and fresh graduates for volunteer work this summer.In a statement this morning, Chagger says it’s a “mutually agreed upon decision.” Trudeau doubles down on defence of WE Charity handling volunteering program Since the charity founded by brothers Craig and Marc Kielburger was announced as the manager of the program last week, the sole-sourced deal has been criticized because of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s close relationship with the group.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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