Finance committee  Sir, I do very much appreciate your raising this because I think it's been strongly misunderstood in the press, that WE organized—

Finance committee  Sir, as part of Canada 150 , there were curricular resources put together that included a 50-portrait series of volunteers across the country in service—

Finance committee  —and 10 individuals who engaged in various forms of service. Being members of Parliament, sir, we believe is service, so we included the Prime Minister for one of 10 videos of other individuals who were involved. Whether it was done in a studio, I'll have to look into that quest

Finance committee  Indeed, sir. We had both government funds provided and also had, for Canada 150, a number of not-for-profit and corporate sponsors. To answer your question, we'd have to look at this component, the 10-part video series, of the 50 portraits as to where the specific funding came

Finance committee  Sir, to be very clear, we're not trying to hold anything back, but we do want to respect the privacy of individuals whom we may not, frankly, want to drag into what has become a highly political conversation, which is very unfortunate.

Finance committee  Sir, indeed. Vivian Krause, I know, made that allegation. Frankly, this is just one of multiple allegations that we, frankly, wanted to come here to properly address and correct, because what we've seen in the press that, without sourcing or fact-checking, has been published; w

Finance committee  That, and we run a charity; this is what we do. Our whole mission for 25 years has been service to young people, so we were willing to take this risk in service to young people.

Finance committee  I'm glad you asked this. Thank you.

Finance committee  We had a proposal of social entrepreneurship. The target audience was youth out of school. It was going to be a year-long program. It was linking them with corporate Canada to be mentors, and the purpose was to help them launch businesses. In short, this had nothing—in any simila

Finance committee  Oh, it was between $8 million and $14 million, in total, for the full 12 months. So this was a very.... This was not an iterative approach; it was not an evolutionary approach. These were two completely separate proposals.

Finance committee  We submitted one on youth employment, that youth entrepreneurship one. There were no iterations on it. Sadly, it did not go anywhere. We submitted one on the early ask, the one that Rachel Wernick asked us to submit. She asked me on the 19th; we submitted that on the 22nd. Then

Finance committee  [Inaudible--Editor]. It will clear up a lot of questions.

Finance committee  It was the same three your colleague asked me about: Minister Ng, Minister Chagger, Minister Morneau. The first proposal was sent to Minister Ng on the 9th, and forwarded to those other two individuals. The second was sent on the 22nd—that was the Rachel Wernick ask—to those thre

Finance committee  Allow me to.... I'm pretty confident that was the reason why he was remunerated—

Finance committee  Yes, we are absolutely grateful for...as were the hundreds of people on the WE Day stage to welcome over a million young Canadians, and 70 million hours—