Instead, the key players in this scandal are refusing to testify and are defying parliament,” NDP MP Charlie Angus said during committee Monday. But late last week, WE organization lawyers informed the committee that the brothers were rescinding their commitment to testify again (they have already testified for three hours in front of the finance committee last summer). “Our clients face significant unfairness should they appear before the Committee,” lawyer William C. McDowell wrote in a letter dated March 3. If that summons is ignored as well, the House can have the brothers declared in contempt of Parliament, which can lead to prison time. “I too was very dismayed at the public statements that were made by the Kielburger brothers,” Liberal MP Brenda Shanahan said.

Source: National Post March 08, 2021 17:38 UTC