Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Cowan, for coming forward. Again, I think all of us are pretty shaken up, especially for you as a father, as someone who wants young people to believe and to make change, given the incredible energy that you tapped into. We have to honour that. I thank you for your testimony.
I also recognize that you are an Emmy Award-winning journalist, so you're probably not used to having to answer questions. You're probably more comfortable asking the questions, but you'll have to bear with us for a minute.
I want to go to Mr. Kielburger's response to you that this was a mistake. It is possible that a mistake was made, that in their excitement about getting more funds they forgot to contact you. What does concern me is what we saw in the Bloomberg article, in which they talked about having Velcro on plaques and how this was a tactic and how staff seemed to think it was kind of funny. That was shocking. Then we had The Fifth Estate documentary that said this was being done with the water wells, the same kind of tactic of having multiple donors pay for the same waterhole.
We've had staff at WE tell us stuff was going on in the schools, but you have confirmed it. This looks to me like a pattern, a pattern of duplicitous relations with donors. When you see this pattern laid out, how do you feel that this organization can carry on doing this kind of work?