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Offline kimmy

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Re: WE Scandal
« Reply #90 on: August 07, 2020, 10:06:42 pm »
We were told that "WE is the only organization with the national reach to deliver this program."

Now we find out that since WE's national reach apparently doesn't extend to Quebec, they had subcontracted the Quebec portion of the CSSG to a PR firm called "National".

I was already curious about the vetting process that determined that WE was somehow the only organization in Canada capable of administering the program. Particularly in light of WE laying off more than half of its employees earlier this year, and most of the board of directors resigning. Now we find out that their much-ballyhooed national presence didn't actually extend into Canada's 2nd-largest province.  I wonder how that got missed during the vetting process.

And why a PR firm, exactly?  What does a PR company know about administering a volunteer grant program?  If WE was just going to subcontract the work out to private companies, why couldn't the public service have done that themselves? Why exactly did we need to hire the Kielburgers as middle-men?

Leaving aside questions about Trudeau and Morneau family ties to the organization, I am also baffled about some of the communications we have been given. Early communications described it as a $912 million program, but now we know that there was only $500 million budgeted. What is the $912m referring to? Early on we were told that WE's cut would be $19.5 million, when Bardish Chagger testified we found out that it was actually going to be $43.5 million.  Why the discrepancy?  Why did the real numbers only come out once people were under oath before the committee?


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