Finance committee I can speak to that, having interviewed Kate Bahen of Charity Intelligence. She told Canadaland she'd never seen anything like this and she likened the way WE Charity was leveraging itself to somebody with a credit card with a $10,000 limit who was constantly at $9,500. This was
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee As Canadaland reported, based on our interview with Kate Bahen of Charity Intelligence, when ME to WE—the company—moves resources to WE Charity, it is as a mixture of money, time and products, and because ME to WE is a privately held company, we don't really have much insight int
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee Yes. This information came to our attention via Charity Intelligence, which is an independent charity watchdog. They found that in the last two sets of audited financials from WE. I believe that Charity Intelligence did have some resistance getting one set of financial disclosu
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee That's correct.
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee I think that it was accessible, certainly through the Charity Intelligence report on WE Charity and possibly in other places as well.
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee I don't attempt to.
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee According to WE Charity, this was a billing error. Our documentation shows that if it was a billing error, it was actually a series of many billing errors, because payments were in the realm of $7,500 speaking fees split into two payments. If you think of $64,000 in payments, tha
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee Okay.
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee That's about what I have left. When WE was questioned about this recording, WE's lawyer told Canadaland that the employee had been stealing charitable funds from WE and that Mr. Kielburger made the phone call at the request of Kenyan police. When asked by Canadaland to provide d
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown
Finance committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the invitation to appear before this committee. By way of context, I'm a journalist and publisher of Canadaland, which is a small independent news organization and podcast network, which is funded directly by Canadians who support our repo
July 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Jesse Brown