Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
It's not easy to surprise me, since I've been in politics since 2015, but here we are talking about the WE Charity scandal on the last day of Parliament in December, and I'm a little surprised.
I was maybe the first one to criticize publicly, as far as our Liberal Party goes, but there is some reason for criticism in terms of how this rolled out. The Prime Minister obviously acknowledged that there was good reason for criticism, as the program was cancelled. I personally thought the Canada summer jobs program was one way of going, but of course this was a different conception of the program. The government saw a way of engaging young people in a more serious way, whereas I took a more employer-centred view.
I first want to get some of the facts straight in my head, because I have not been part of the proceedings.
Mr. Blumberg, when you say it was a grant of $543 million, you're not in fact saying that WE Charity was to receive $543 million. You recognize, in fact, that most of that was going to go to the students, right?