In a statement provided to CTV News on Sunday, WE Charity said that extra staff had been hired “specifically to support the administration of the CSSG program and are not part of WE Charity’s permanent staff.
Although the charity has been in the hot seat before, they came under increased scrutiny at the end of June when the federal government announced that they were partnering with WE to create the Canadian Student Services Grant. WE itself was promised up to $19 million in payment, depending on the number of students who were recruited to participate.
Cry me a river!
Ummm, so Momma Trudeau, Bro Trudeau and Sophie Trudeau will be qualifying for pogie? Judging from what they were getting paid to speak, that’s pretty high stamps!
I’m curious about the layoffs. Did WE hire all the people they are laying off before getting the $ and were they all hired for this contract. When did WE hire these people? Is WE trying to soften and distract from the conflict of interest issues for the friends in gov?
Would love to know what income the brothers draw from the 'charity', dont students pay yo go on these trips? I question the ethics of a lot of these voluntourism trips.
Never mind the Prime Minister, that can wait until we conquer COVID...but why aren’t we worried about craigkielburger and the rest of the WE organization. It takes two to tango!
there and tens of thousands of businesses and jobs lost as a result of no or too little funding from the feds - MOVE ON and start pushing the parties to work together to help the situation. WE does NOT have to be in the news for the next 6 months (even if sheer wants it to be)
Trying to justify political corruption with student jobs. Nice attempt at deflection, tho ..
Hahahahaha They had already hired people to volunteer to manage money that the didn’t know was coming their way?
So the graft monies stopped then GOOD GOOD
Thank the Trudeau's
And...given the scandal, are WE actually supposed to feel sorry for them? I don’t think so!
Damn straight.
Good!
About 450 workers were laid off from WE. That was 450 people we did not need on the government payroll.
Trudeau needs to step down until this is investigated.
Hindsight being 20/20 when you court a PM & family to boost your organizations market share while at the same time the PM is using your group to boost his own popular social engineering agenda remember that politics is a blood sport.
Isn’t there a government program giving $ for CDN & International students? There are plenty of jobs out there, most of these kids are just lazy
God knows they took a pay cut first
The Program was cancelled (when WE withdrew) about a week after it was announced! Did they hire that many people in a week? Or did they get the news leaked to them early?
June 25th. Find out you’re getting a $900Milion contract that you didn’t have to bid on. July 3rd. You back away from the contract even though you could profit $19Million. 1.Who made the decision to hire 450 people in those 5 business days? 2. How did you hire 450 in 5 days?
Great
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The blame lies solely with this government I had to sign a conflict of interest for my work I'm sure the PM&ministers had to do the same. So they should have withdrawn any connection with the charity before any government money was given.
I’m getting laid off and I have a wife, two kids and bills to pay. You know what I’m going to do? Go get another job. It can happen to anybody. Get over it and move on.
I'm sure they'll find volunteers.
Question; if it hadn’t started yet, and teachers hadn’t started getting $12k to recruit yet, how are the students getting laid off now? Oh, and I thought charity work was usually volunteering🤔
That's less stealing taxpayer money for their liberal indoctrination program.
They should be shut down!
It just hired them for the program so no net loss.....
Boo boo..
C’mon, get real. There is a govt program set up for this already and the whole thing wreaks of special access and kick backs. There’s no sympathy here.
Trudeau has a number of government departments that are already set up to do THIS PROGRAM WITHOUT A 20 MILLION DOLLAR BRIBE to the organization that paid his mother 250,000, brother 32,000 and wife 1400. This is criminal behaviour and the RCMP must investigate...!!!!!
womp womp
The Kielberger brothers have either been afforded special access to inside government information or they have a very good fortune teller on call.
Don’t bother with the comments, it’s a bunch of hate filled people who have major PMJTDerrangememtSyndrome
How do the conservatives and ndp figure to fix it
Many Canadians feel quite badly for WE Charity......
Ok
So they were hired when🤔🤔🤔
Boo Hoo! Millions of Canadians they were ready to rip off with Trudeau's laundering scheme have been out of work for months. Suck it. cdnpoli TrudeauMustGo TrudeauCorruption
Commenting on the comments: Oh, for fuck sake. Damned Conservatives just gotta find someone to hate. It's pathological. Seriously, seek help.
And we're supposed to feel bad about that. Why aren't we auditing the books of organizations like this, what about the 34 million in real estate they bought, sell some of that to pay those staffers, or maybe the brothers could sell their mansions.
The Kielberg brothers must have one heck of a good fortune teller.
Thanks to the politics there are thousands of students who will not be earning anything this summer. This will have a huge impact on them and/or their families when it comes time to pay for tuition & books this fall. Shame on CPC_HQ
Tent city Trudeau will have to find a new way to launder money to his voters.
Just a headline to make someone look bad. WE are so imbedded with the liberals I want throw up. And, and Trudolt is going to get away with another travesty.
Layed off Liberal volunteers and paid Liberal speakers? Direct Liberal transfer of tax payer money to themselves. Oh my heart is breaking.
Why? Nothing to see here...
In my Gordan Ramsey voice 'Shut it down.'
The timeline of this announcement does match up. Are the now claiming the knew in advance that the government program was going to be awarded to them? It’s only been a couple weeks since the program was announced and the day afterwards it was announced the WE would administer it
Laid off some unpaid volunteers
Could have at least hired a few of them to manage contacts with all those defamation lawyers they have sending out letters and to help scrub their website and social media accounts. Nice to see how you are all going to spin it though
The question to ask is why did they hire all those people for this program before it was announced that they received the grant? How long did they know they were earmarked for the cash before it was officially announced? Insider tip?
Cry me a river. All humanitarian orgs in Canada laid off staff this year because of COVID19. At least they did it with some integrity and for a very valid reason, one that was completely out of their hands.
The news cycle.
Good
So was the government expecting to have 176,200 students on this program? (900m-19m)/5,000 Seems like every student in Canada would have been eligible. Would it not make more sense to put 176,200 workers back to work full time by providing employers with 20 weeks at 250/wk/ee?
The rest of the Government family members were laid off?
They can apply for cerb like everyone else
WE has, sadly, lost its way.
Boo boo
This alleged charity has been acting like organized crime since having been caught up in Trudeau's scam. First they made their corporate sponsors disappear from the web, including Bell, archived here: Now, their celebrity members:
They can all thank the CPC_HQ and its loudest mouthpieces AndrewScheer PeterMacKay ErinOTooleMP
Liberal slush fund
You mean after it’s gravy train derailed?
How did they know so far ahead to hire people in the first place? Seem like they knew long ago they would get the $900M. You can’t hire 465 people in a week!
I feel bad for the students and workers who are affected. Shame on Trudeau and his crooked bunch who are squarely to blame for another unethical fiasco.
The more people donate to charity the grimier their agenda is what it appears to be these days unfortunately
Corruption uncovered and Justin looking for his way out claiming he backed out when he realized what was going on likelyin the coming days. Sooo CTV you should probably report better huge corruption and no mention?
They had laid off the staff that did the prep work for the program before it was cancelled
Well they put the horse before the cart & we, the tax payers, weren't prepared to dole out more of our money.
See what happens? Now people are being laid off. That should teach you ungrateful bastards to mess with my prime ministers family trying to make money
Let me understand this correctly. WE Charity, had to lay off workers, after an almost BILLION DOLLAR contract got cancelled, that could have been completed through agencies that already existed? Did they HIRE people based off of this “single source” contract? FakeNews
So, it was for their 'workers' that our money was actually going to, not students. Thanks for at least 'fessing up.
Hired in June when Trudeau called them... that's the only reason... which means Trudeau lied again
Lol
Did you ask WE how they got hired so quickly? When were the contacts sugbed? Of course you didn't.
Um no. WE laid off workers because their corruption was uncovered, and they couldn't continue operating under the guise of charity.
You helped with that, we watched
WE charity. The charity we never cared to support otherwise they wouldn't need to take part in federal ethics violations.
Hillary Clinton style corruption doesnt work in Canada. It works with 🇺🇲 Democrats but in 🇨🇦, we have Conservatives, NDP, Greens, Bloc Quebecois to call out the Liberals. In the states, they just watch it happen and then deny it all for a week until CNN sweeps it under the rug.
students should be working in the fields harvesting crops
Aww.
What, you want sympathy? TELL the world HOW MANY VOLUNTEERS you use to do a WE event. So, stop with the sympathy crap... you slept with the devil and now you'll deal with the consequences. Reality sucks and so does accountability.
Why would they have hired them in the first place? Did they know something that we didn’t? They must have been shocked when the PM didn’t come through with the dough. Our dough by the way...
You shouldn’t have even accepted the the idea that you should’ve been awarded the project. The We charity has ties with Bill Mornreau too who is totally corrupt.
They knew weeks ahead that they were supposed to get the billion dollars. Blackface corruption at its finest!
they only just hired them. to administer volunteer money. seems terrible way to get money into students hands as volunteers. can just use the governments on line process that was already set up!
CTV fake news strikes again.
They hire and fire fast.
That's what opportunistic Conservaterrorist hyperbolic propaganda does. It destroys! EndConservatism cdnpoli
Could have at least hired a few of them to manage contacts with all those defamation lawyers they have sending out letters and to help scrub their website and social media accounts. Nice to see how you are all going to spin it though
What is voluntary work mean? a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking. 2. a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.
It stinks that people are laid off and Students will have a harder time getting money for school. There is nothing good that came out of this.
First of all, contractors are not eligible for layoff 🤔 unless they mean contract employee... but the term contractor implies something very different. WEscandal WECharity cdnpoli
How dirty does this “charity” seem?
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