According to some of those ministers, at least according to one who made it clear today, the contract we are talking about was signed by the federal government on the one hand and by a legal entity called the WE foundation on the other. The ministers tell us that they had done business with WE Charity. However, it seems that WE Charity is a shell, in legal terms, a company, a corporation that is separate from the WE foundation. The dates of incorporation and the officers are not the same for the two organizations. The minister told us that, in her mind, the agreement she was approving was with WE Charity.
I will not ask you whether that constitutes a defect in consent that would be grounds to have the contract annulled. Since we are dealing with the cabinet, I refuse to believe that a judge would tell us these individuals are not competent to make a decision of this kind.
With respect to the lack of due diligence, could we say that this is a case of carelessness or gross negligence?