Information & Ethics committee  With WE Charity.

Information & Ethics committee  As I understand, they made the suggestion.

Information & Ethics committee  No. I'm going to say that WE Charity, as far as I'm aware, made the suggestion that the WE Charity Foundation would be the better vehicle.

Information & Ethics committee  The same issues.... I don't know at what point the focus shifted from the WE Charity to the WE Charity Foundation. I do not know if it would be the same individuals responding on the other side to both parts of the organization. I can tell you that the officials were focused with

Information & Ethics committee  Chair, I understand completely the question and its legitimacy. I have every confidence that going forward we will learn from this situation whether those questions should have been examined. I'm not in a position to give the detail on the negotiation of the contribution agreemen

Information & Ethics committee  I've been very clear, a few times now, in answering your question to say that those issues with respect to the WE Charity Foundation were not raised in the subsequent briefing. To my knowledge, they were not flagged as material in the examination of WE's ability to deliver the pr

Information & Ethics committee  In retrospect, I think if we had known what we know now, we probably would have inquired further, but I must also say that even looking back now, I have no evidence that the WE organization, had the program gone ahead, would not today be able to deliver the program as set out in

Information & Ethics committee  My understanding is that he did not.

Information & Ethics committee  The details of the design of the program had yet to be worked out. The policy was what the Prime Minister announced. The details were to be fleshed out later.

Information & Ethics committee  It was not, that I recall. The Prime Minister's own history with WE was—

Information & Ethics committee  —but beyond that, sir, no.

Information & Ethics committee  I do not believe it was.

Information & Ethics committee  To the best of my knowledge, the answer is no.

Information & Ethics committee  Either I was there or my colleague Phil Jennings, who's deputy secretary at PCO was. I would refer—

Information & Ethics committee  Well, as I said to the earlier question, this was oral, but yes, he asked for an understanding of the capacity of the public service, which was provided.