Article contentThe savage self-inflicted blows just keep coming for Justin Trudeau and his gang: On Thursday, the digital media outlet Canadaland and the CBC blew apart the story that the Trudeau family’s involvement with Craig and Marc Kielburger’s WE empire had been entirely voluntary, save for reimbursed travel expenses. Turns out Mother Margaret had collected $312,000 and Brother Sacha $40,000 in speakers’ fees over the years from WE Charity and ME to WE Social Enterprise, the for-profit appendage of the WE leviathan. So now we have the government sole-sourcing a $19-million contract to administer a $900-million summer jobs program to an organization that’s not just closely linked to the prime minister’s family, but that had considerably enriched his mother in particular. Said prime minister didn’t even see fit to recuse himself from cabinet discussions on the matter, the National Post reported on Wednesday, although the deal was eventually cancelled after the controversy blew up. In a statement on Thursday, perhaps having achieved peak shamelessness, Trudeau’s office advised us of “what is important to remember” — namely, that all this “is that this is about a charity supporting students.” (Why was the arrangement cancelled, then?)

Source: National Post July 09, 2020 23:26 UTC