The House of Commons ethics committee has punted a decision on whether it should launch its own probe of the WE Charity scandal to next week after Liberal MPs filibustered through part of the four-hour meeting.
Conservative MPs said today the committee must launch its own parallel investigation into how the contract to administer the $912-million summer student grants program was awarded to WE, a charity with close personal ties to Trudeau and his family.
Conservative MP Michael Barrett, the party's ethics critic, said the government's "shifting narrative" on who was responsible for putting WE forward for the deal — and how much the charity was set to be paid for administering the program — makes a probe necessary.
Youth Minister Bardish Chagger said yesterday at Commons finance committee that WE stood to receive $43.5 million if it could sign up up tens of thousands of students for volunteer opportunities. That's more than double the $19.5 million the government initially said it had earmarked for WE.
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