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