Thank you, Mr. Daraiche.
Good morning, Mr. Chair, Madam Clerk and members of the committee.
National's mandate with WE Charity was for communications. Our mandate was not to manage the Canada student service grant program in Quebec, nor to act on behalf of WE Charity as an intermediary between them and the federal government.
Our role was to provide communication support to WE to raise awareness for the grant program among non-profit organizations, students and other stakeholders in Quebec and in francophone communities outside of Quebec. The objective was to help as many non-profits and students as possible get through the COVID-19 pandemic during the summer.
In order for as many people as possible to receive help and for students and non-profits to register, they first had to know about the program. Our job was to raise awareness of the Canada student service grant program among the target groups. Our mandate included preparing the French content, providing program-related media monitoring and developing the social media content.
It was very clear from our earliest discussions that this was a very large-scale project, one with a very ambitious objective and, above all, a very tight deadline—barely a month. Our work on the mandate began on May 25 and ended on July 3, 2020, when WE Charity transferred responsibility for the program to the federal government.
Our mandate was to support WE Charity for its communications, to raise awareness of the program.
Thank you.
Mr. Daraiche would be happy to answer any questions you have to the best of his knowledge.