Finance committee  I would defer the question to the government, except I would add quickly that Rachel Wernick first visited our operations in 2017 and toured the broadcast facility that we have in our global headquarters, the digital classrooms and Skype pods where we host school groups on a regular basis.

Finance committee  Our audited financial statements are available, like any charity's, for access by the government. I defer to them whether they looked at them.

Finance committee  Certainly. The donors range from young people collecting millions of pennies all across Canada—they collected 140 million pennies one year that went specifically to support clean water projects around the world—to groups that fund our operations. The Gates Foundation has funded our programs, and supports and the well-known Canadian McConnell Foundation, groups from all walks of life.

Finance committee  Allow me to answer the question this way: It's what the Clerk of the Privy Council said. It's also what Rachel Wernick said. In 25 years, we have engaged 7,000 schools across Canada in WE service programs. We have the largest Facebook and social media presence engaging youth from coast to coast to coast.

Finance committee  During the pandemic, the senior staff and Ms. Douglas had a disagreement over the nature of reporting. Daily oral briefs were being provided, 14 over the course of the month, but we respect what she was asking for in writing. Due to the extraordinary circumstances, the team was not able to provide that.

Finance committee  Allow me to.... I'm pretty confident that was the reason why he was remunerated—

Finance committee  Yes, we are absolutely grateful for...as were the hundreds of people on the WE Day stage to welcome over a million young Canadians, and 70 million hours—

Finance committee  Sir, we really appreciate the fact that, as premier, Premier Pallister did a welcome at the beginning. We appreciate that given his work on autism, the member of Parliament, Mike Lake, spoke with his son multiple times on the WE Day stage, which was extraordinary. And we appreciate Margaret Trudeau as an activist on mental health.

Finance committee  Correct. I said that I had submitted it to Minister Ng because of the small business connection. We didn't discuss it at great length.

Finance committee  [Inaudible--Editor]. It will clear up a lot of questions.

Finance committee  That, and we run a charity; this is what we do. Our whole mission for 25 years has been service to young people, so we were willing to take this risk in service to young people.

Finance committee  I'm glad you asked this. Thank you.

Finance committee  We had a proposal of social entrepreneurship. The target audience was youth out of school. It was going to be a year-long program. It was linking them with corporate Canada to be mentors, and the purpose was to help them launch businesses. In short, this had nothing—in any similar manner, besides the fact that it was youth—to do with the CSSG.

Finance committee  Oh, it was between $8 million and $14 million, in total, for the full 12 months. So this was a very.... This was not an iterative approach; it was not an evolutionary approach. These were two completely separate proposals.

Finance committee  We submitted one on youth employment, that youth entrepreneurship one. There were no iterations on it. Sadly, it did not go anywhere. We submitted one on the early ask, the one that Rachel Wernick asked us to submit. She asked me on the 19th; we submitted that on the 22nd. Then, we worked with ESDC through multiple iterations.