Finance committee  Approximately 1,000.

Finance committee  I think the organization could provide greater precision on that point.

Finance committee  The first, I would say, Mr. Cooper, is that employees were being laid off and the board did not have enough information to provide oversight. The second reason, I would say, is that we were being denied access to the chief financial officer. We had sought two meetings with them,

Finance committee  I never saw anything about the integrity of the organization that caused me deep concern. I always felt, though, that it was my duty, especially where there are inherent tensions between co-founder-led organizations and a board of directors, to always push for enhanced forms of o

Finance committee  That's right.

Finance committee  Certainly I would acknowledge that there are many entities associated with the WE brand generally. The prevailing work of the WE Charity board was to focus on the areas we had responsibility for. But certainly we were linked by things such as branding, or potentially by connectio

Finance committee  I just can't compare them to anything that's currently before your committee around the Canada student service grant. I just don't think I have enough experience on the application process to be useful to you in answering that.

Finance committee  Well, I don't have particular insight on how they may have expressed themselves to each other, or indeed back to the organization, exactly how they would characterize their departure, but there was a process. We had had ongoing discussions with the organization. In fact, the boar

Finance committee  Right.

Finance committee  Yes. I did not see this as being in the ordinary course, and I resigned because I felt I had to.

Finance committee  I've had a few conversations, yes, with some former board members. I've never had conversations again with Marc Kielburger, Dalal Al-Waheidi or—

Finance committee  It was a concern to me. I did have a number of concerns, yes.

Finance committee  As we were receiving oral briefings, I heard numbers that literally changed every day. I believe the first number I heard on or about March 9 was 35. Then it moved up to approximately 100. Some of these numbers are combined with those for ME to WE, so they're not exclusively for

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Right. This was very much a process managed by staff at the organization. They would be identifying needs and the opportunity to potentially fill a need by providing services, or looking for open calls for grants and things of that nature. The actual working process of this was d