We have enabled email notifications—you will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Monday July 13 2020, 12.01am, The Times. Morneau also revealed that WE Charity covered $41,000 in expenses for him and his family in 2107 for trips to view two of its humanitarian projects in Ecuador and Kenya.Morneau wrote a cheque to reimburse the organization for those expenses shortly before testifying two weeks ago at the Commons finance committee, which is also attempting to get to the bottom of the affair.Members of the finance committee are waiting to see some 5,000 pages of documents turned over by the government Saturday on the WE controversy. Ian Shugart said senior officials at Employment and Social Development Canada told him they had a track record with the organization, which reassured him about the charityOTTAWA — Canada’s top public servant says federal officials did not probe WE Charity’s financial situation or governance structure when doing homework on a $912-million deal with the charity to administer a pandemic student grant program.Ian Shugart, clerk of the Privy Council, says the due diligence on WE Charity focused on its ability to deliver the program.Speaking to the House of Commons ethics committee this afternoon, Shugart said senior officials at Employment and Social Development Canada — the department that ultimately signed the contract with WE — told him they had a track record with the organization, which reassured him about the charity.When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initially pushed back on the proposal to award the Canada Student Service Grant contract to WE, knowing his family’s connections with the organization would lead to significant scrutiny, Trudeau asked for further evaluation of the deal, Shugart confirmed.Officials went back and examined whether WE Charity had the ability to administer a Canada-wide student volunteer program and whether it could deliver these services in both official languages.Other issues relating to WE Charity’s organization, board of directors, financial state and governance structure were not considered at that time, Shugart said.When it came back to cabinet two weeks later, Shugart says, he believed the due diligence undertaken was sufficient.Shugart is among a number of high profile witnesses who will be grilled today about how the WE Charity, which has close ties to Trudeau, wound up being chosen to administer the grant.The committee is also scheduled to hear from Youth Minister Bardish Chagger, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough and former ethics commissioner Mary Dawson.The committee is ostensibly conducting a review of the existing safeguards in place to prevent conflicts of interest when the federal government is deciding how to spend taxpayers’ dollars.But opposition MPs are sure to focus more pointedly on the government’s agreement with WE Charity to administer the grant program, which had been intended to encourage students to engage in summer volunteer work related to the COVID-19 pandemic.Chagger was the minister responsible for the program, now abandoned after becoming mired in controversy.Qualtrough is in charge of the department whose public servants concluded they were not capable of delivering the program and who, according to the government, recommended that WE Charity was the only group capable of delivering it.Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who also has close family ties to WE Charity, are both under investigation by the federal ethics commissioner. Photo: Sean Kilpatrick, AP ... Trudeau’s wife, brother and mother have been paid a combined $300,000 Canadian (US$221,000) for speaking at a … Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. © 2020 Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. The committee is looking into Government Spending, WE Charity and the Canada Student Service Grant.PCO clerk: Scrutiny of WE deal focused on charity's ability to deliver program, not its financial affairsPCO clerk: Scrutiny of WE deal focused on charity's ability to deliver program, not its financial affairsFinance Minister Bill Morneau appears before a House of Commons committee investigating the now-cancelled agreement for WE Charity to run a student-volunteer program, July 22, 2020.PCO clerk: Scrutiny of WE deal focused on charity's ability to deliver program, not its financial affairs
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