The WE organization is coming under new scrutiny over questions as to whether it should have officially registered to lobby the federal government before it pitched two separate programs to the Trudeau government last April.
WE is not listed in the federal lobbying registry. On Friday, Conservative MPs Pierre Poilievre and Michael Barrett wrote the federal commissioner of lobbying, Nancy Bélanger, asking her to investigate if WE had possibly broken the Lobbying Act.
At issue are revelations by a senior bureaucrat at Thursday’s Finance committee meeting that WE sent two “unsolicited” proposals to the federal government. Rachel Wernick, senior assistant deputy minister at the Department of Employment and Social Development Canada, testified that WE first sent a pitch to the government on April 9, proposing the creation of a “social entrepreneurship” program. WE’s second proposal, sent April 22, eventually turned into the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG), which the Trudeau government asked WE Charity to implement.
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