Corbella: While it’s correct that many international charities invite donors and potential donors to see the work they are doing in foreign lands, to describe what WE does as “similar” to other international aid agencies is to defame those other aid agencies.
Most international aid charities require that donors who want to see their work overseas pay the entire cost of their travel, plus the cost of the charity staff member travelling with them. As one acquaintance who works for a major, highly reputable international aid agency told me, donors pay “100 per cent of their own travel costs. Period.”
Clearly, WE Charity — and its complicated web of affiliated profit and not-for-profit entities — doesn’t do this. Morneau didn’t pay for his family trip because the trip was a gift from the WE Charity to arguably the second most powerful politician in the country, someone whose fingers are literally regulating the flow of taxpayer money.
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