Rex Murphy: So, Marc, it’s a scandal you say, but just for the government, not for WE. I presume you mean the present government led by Justin Trudeau. A scandal for the Liberal government.
WE also received, prior to the singular contract to distribute vast millions to Canadian young people, grants from the federal government.
And when, out of the unclouded blue, the huge, sole-sourced (and mysterious) contract was made known, along with WE’s “administrative” fee of $43 million, many people — not just in the press or Parliament — looked at all this and asked: What is this? A private enterprise, with very heavy access to the party in power, very close association with its leadership, gets chosen over the civil service to hand out millions to Canadian citizens? A thing never heard of before.
The public, or a large part of it, showed more than a little shock at the appearance of cronyism, a demonstrative appearance of conflict-of-interest on the prime minister’s part, and wonderment over how much influence you and your brother’s organization had with our government.
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