Information & Ethics committee  —WE Day events were held entirely in French. The purpose was to celebrate all the students who had volunteered in their communities for a year. Our team did [Inaudible—Editor] tours in schools in Quebec and created resources for educators. Events for youth were conducted in Fren

Information & Ethics committee  To be clear, it wasn't necessarily for our organization. To remind the member, at that point, back a year ago, no one knew whether we needed special filtration systems and plexiglass to separate people. We were putting a potential line item. If I could also share, there were 13 d

Information & Ethics committee  To answer your question, we also engaged with English-language equivalent firms in other parts of Canada. It wasn't unusual for us.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. For context, we did 12 WE Days, which are celebrations that bring youth together from all across the province for service and volunteer programs. We helped engage 400 schools in the province of Quebec and had partnerships with school districts and post-secondary non-profit

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, absolutely. We would be happy to provide that to you. In fact, we previously did, to the FINA committee, but we're happy to provide it again.

Information & Ethics committee  To answer your question, it is a tragedy what is happening. In September, we made the hardest choice we've ever had to make. We announced the wind down of 25 years of work in this country. The people who lost their jobs had been with us since the beginning just trying to help you

Information & Ethics committee  It is because WE Charity in Canada is closing, sir, because of the politics.

Information & Ethics committee  That I can give you. That's what I said, $217,500.

Information & Ethics committee  We paid those expenses directly, of course.

Information & Ethics committee  We paid the hotel bill when they stayed or the—

Information & Ethics committee  Expenses would have been over, roughly—

Information & Ethics committee  There were 42 events. It was a total of $209,620.16 for the expenses for the individuals, which works out to roughly—

Information & Ethics committee  Again, we never, of course, paid any expenses or honorariums to Mr. Trudeau, but to Margaret Trudeau, Alexandre Trudeau and Sophie Trudeau over the past, whatever, 10-plus years of various speaking events—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Under the quickest math that I can here, adding it together, it's roughly $216,000 in honorariums and roughly $209,000 in expenses, which of course was not paid to them. We just pay it directly—the hotel or a flight. If you add that together it's a little over $400,000. That

Information & Ethics committee  The organization is fully bilingual. The speaking tours, the website and the programs are all bilingual. We have an office in Montreal to help students and engage schools in the province, but because the program was so large in scale and grew so quickly, we had to hire many group