Finance committee  No. I don't know [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Finance committee  No, except to say that it would.... I think the question here is this: Why was the federal government so keen to award this contract despite all the red flags? What was the reason? Was there a benefit? I think a database like that, if in fact it is good-quality data.... I don't

Finance committee  Whom are you asking? Me?

Finance committee  It's not difficult at all. Just read the financial statements. It's the first thing you should read if you're looking at any charity.

Finance committee  I said that I wrote a letter last week to WE asking what they did with the data. I asked them if they give it to their corporate partners, if they give it to political parties, or if they give it to anyone working on political campaigns. I asked them what they do with the data.

Finance committee  I have no evidence of that. I was just told that. I don't have any documentation, so—

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  That's the big question here: Why? Why all these red flags and why were they all ignored? That's what got me looking into this. There's one issue that we haven't talked about yet and that's the elections activism of WE. In the 2015 election, for example, they authored an op-ed

Finance committee  Last week.

Finance committee  In fairness to them, they've probably been under a lot of pressure lately. There are many big brands. The most nervous people these days must be the people in the boardrooms of the Royal Bank, Telus, Nordstrom and Ford Motors. All these big brands have given WE literally tens of

Finance committee  Let's clarify. There are many ways to be part of the election machine of any political party without making a cash donation. In fact, the way elections are run these days, it's the in-kind donations that are making the biggest impact, something as simple as a tweet from Barack

Finance committee  May I make one more very important point?

Finance committee  Something about the awarding of this billion-dollar contract to WE Charity just does not make sense. We need to find out why this was done. When one considers the Hollywood-style advertisements, the video promos of the Prime Minister, the elections, meetings, the vote stickers an

Finance committee  You can ask me your questions.

Finance committee  Absolutely. Today, I will send to the committee all the documents, the calculations, the numbers, the tables, and everything. I am also going to post them on my blog.