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Statement from Minister Bardish Chagger just out this morning:
"While WE Charity launched the [Canada Student Service Grant] program... moving forward they will not be managing the program. This is a mutually agreed upon decision."
"While WE Charity launched the [Canada Student Service Grant] program... moving forward they will not be managing the program. This is a mutually agreed upon decision."
Statement says WE will return funds it received and work to ensure the volunteers who applied and were placed won't be adversely affected.
However, statement suggests this program will continue.
However, statement suggests this program will continue.
Important to note that some of the criticism has been around the relationship of WE to the PM and his family and WE's capacity to execute this program, and the use of a $19.5 M sole source contract for administering it on the gov't's behalf, but...
There are also serious and substantive questions about the design of this program, and those will not go away just because the ties to WE are mutually severed.
Also begs the question: who's running it now?
Also begs the question: who's running it now?
I have just deleted a tweet in this thread that included a link sent in error. My apologies.
