WE Charity founders Craig and Marc Kielburger will appear before a House of Commons committee next week to answer questions about the Liberal government's partnership with the charity in a $900-million student grant program it was tasked with administering. "A lot of things have been written and said about WE Charity over the last few weeks," Craig Kielburger said in a statement. The House finance committee voted July 7 to hold four meetings to dig into how WE Charity entered a contribution agreement with the government to administer the student grant program. Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth Bardish Chagger revealed to the committee last week that WE Charity stood to earn $43.53 million by administering the program. Initially, the federal government said WE Charity would get $19.5 million, with $5 million of that going toward not-for-profits to help them with administration costs.

Source: CBC News July 21, 2020 01:30 UTC