Several former employees of WE Charity have told CBC News they felt pressured to attend a holiday party Bill Morneau held in his downtown Toronto riding in December 2018 and claimed they were not told by their supervisors that the party would be hosted by the federal finance minister and MP for Toronto Centre.
"None of us wanted to go," said a former employee, whom CBC News has agreed to refer to as Robin.
Robin is one of three former WE Charity employees who allege co-founder Marc Kielburger's chief of staff, Jackie Pilon, repeatedly asked them to attend the event on Dec. 13, 2018, even after they told her they'd rather not.
Robin claims Pilon asked them to go after work to "fill the room" and that Pilon described the celebration as though it were a "WE event or a Craig Kielburger event," referring to Kielburger's brother and WE co-founder Craig Kielburger."[She] kind of kept dancing around any details. … It was framed as though this was an event centred around Craig, and Bill Morneau would just happen to be there."
Under federal income tax law, registered charities can't use their resources to support political parties or candidates, but it's unclear whether the holiday party would qualify as a political function without knowing whether party donations were collected at the event, for example.
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