Juno News - July 18, 2020


An apology is not enough. We deserve the truth.


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

134.06808

Word Count

592

Sentence Count

33

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 As the WE scandal continues to unfold we learn of more liberal connections to
00:00:09.600 this dubious charity. WE was contracted to a Canada Day event on Parliament Hill
00:00:15.720 for 1.18 million which Justin Trudeau's mother was speaking. We do not know for
00:00:22.240 sure she was paid for this particular event but we know that she was paid more
00:00:26.760 than $300,000 to speak at some 25 WE events. This has now prompted four
00:00:34.300 investigations. Two parliamentary committee investigations, finance and
00:00:40.200 government operations and the ethics commissioner investigations into both
00:00:45.120 the prime minister and the finance minister. We also learned courtesy of the
00:00:50.460 rebel news the Canada's chief health officer Dr. Theresa Tam contracted with
00:00:56.940 WE in 2019 for some unspecified services also in some sort of sole-sourced deal.
00:01:04.200 We learned courtesy of the deep digging of the Toronto Sun's Brian Lilly that the WE
00:01:10.140 charity is not a standalone entity. In fact it is closely associated to me to WE
00:01:16.920 Asset Holdings, Me Too We Foundation and Imagine One Day International Holdings.
00:01:22.460 The owners Craig and Mark Kielberger have real estate holdings of more than 43
00:01:28.260 million dollars in downtown Toronto. Lilly referred to all of this as Kielberger
00:01:34.020 Incorporated. This is hardly your run-of-the-mill charity and the prime
00:01:39.300 minister has been closely associated to them since at least 2008. For the liberal
00:01:44.540 government to try to give them a sole source contract for 912 million for some
00:01:51.220 nebulous youth volunteering service is beyond the pale. Of that there was a
00:01:58.220 management fee alone of some 20 million dollars to perform a service that Service
00:02:05.040 Canada has been overseen for a number of years through their summer jobs program.
00:02:10.220 Quite apart from anything else, the math in all of this simply doesn't add up. The
00:02:16.260 program was to announce to provide as much as five thousand dollars to thirty
00:02:20.360 thousand students who had put in a certain number of hours volunteering. So let's do
00:02:25.460 the math. If we assume they all got or they got all thirty thousand students
00:02:31.160 involved and all completed their requisite hours and each earned that five
00:02:35.620 thousand dollars, that translates to a hundred and fifty million. Add in the 20
00:02:41.000 million management fee, that still leaves unexplained the remaining 761,980,000.
00:02:48.620 What was that money supposed to be used for? This all stinks to the high heavens. It
00:02:57.160 stinks even worse when we consider the Kielberger set after the contract was
00:03:01.960 announced, that the Prime Minister had called them directly to tell them about
00:03:07.240 it. That was quickly walked back when Trudeau said, oh no, it was a cabinet decision.
00:03:13.720 Then we learned that after the contract fell apart, we laid off 450 people ostensibly
00:03:21.460 hired to work on the program. This means that they had spent weeks in a
00:03:25.840 recruiting drive in advance of the contract award. Why would they do that if
00:03:32.560 they had not had a heads up from the PMO? The simple answer is they would not. So
00:03:41.240 the fix was in and the result was preordained by the PMO. Hardly a cabinet
00:03:47.320 decision at all despite what we were told. Canadians have not been told the truth in
00:03:53.620 any of this and the Prime Minister needs to be held accountable for it. An apology for
00:03:59.380 not recusing himself from the cabinet table is simply not sufficient. It screams
00:04:05.620 out for a full and complete investigation by the RCMP. Remember, we are talking about
00:04:12.280 nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money being steered to liberal friends and
00:04:17.940 insiders. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.