TRUDEAU GOV'T SPENT $1.8M ON WE CHARITY EVENT

   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked WE Charity to host a 2017 Canada Day event on Parliament Hill, the organization’s co-founder said, for which the government paid $1.18 million. And Trudeau’s mother, who had been receiving fees for making public appearances at WE events at the time, was a speaker at the event.
     Last Friday, National Post asked WE organization to confirm whether Trudeau’s mother had been paid for her WE Day appearance on Parliament Hill. Five days later, the organization had neither confirmed nor denied the payment, nor did the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
   “It would be entirely unacceptable for Canadian tax dollars to be used to pay a speaking fee for the mother of the prime minister at an event where she was appearing with him. It’s an unbelievable revelation in a series of unbelievable revelations,” said Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett.