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Leaving aside questions about Trudeau and Morneau family ties to the organization,

nice member kimmy - nice! PM Trudeau has no family ties to WE Charity; Finance Minister Morneau has a daughter that works for WE Charity

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?

clearly you've shown it doesn't take much to "baffle you"! In any case you can thank Scheer/Poilievre/CPC and lazy-azzed & biased media for the purposeful misinformation... emphasis on purposeful as the proper figures eventually came forward and were ignored by those hell-bent on manufacturing yet another fake scandal - besides, falsely hyping a $Billion dollar figure is more click-bait worthy!

facts matter!

- the Canada Student Service Grant program was allocated a $900 million budget
- per the formal Contribution Agreement with the WE Charity Foundation of Canada, up to $500 million could have paid out in the form of grants to students across three cohorts of potential volunteers
- based on the actual number of student volunteers realized, up to $43.53 million would have been allocated to the WE Charity Foundation for administering the program
- of that potential $43.53 million administration amount, up to $8.75 million of that $43.53 million was eligible to be shared among the partnering charities and non-profit organizations that supervised the volunteers
- slimeball Pierre Poilievre has so easily shifted from his shrieking over $1 billion dollars down to the actual $500 million that could have been paid as grants to students; yet somehow PP et al are still nattering on about an admin payment range (for eligible expenses) to WE Charity of between $19.5 and $43 million... not properly factoring in payments to partnering charities & non-profits => actual range as between $14.2 and $34.18 million.

yes, facts matter!

and actually: as came forward during the Keilburger brothers testimony, there is an expectation that the cost of the program would settle in closer to ~$300 million based on the anticipated number of students participating and the resultant number of volunteer hours.