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Finance committee From the best of our understanding, there's no.... This is a very specific question, as you can appreciate, and this is the best of our understanding.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee Sir, that's correct. It would have been exclusively for expenses, number one.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee Yes. Number two, it's actually not an administration fee, sir. It's actually a program fee. We were doing this on behalf of the government, helping the government. We were asked to do this by the government. The organization itself would not profit. We were there because we wan
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee We shared all the information with ESDC, in terms of what these structures would do, and we specifically explained to them that this would be our ability to hold, to limit that liability as part of that process, and they were aware.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee Sir, it wasn't a separate corporate entity; it was a separate non-profit organization—
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee I was on the call with other individuals from the professional services side with ESDC. We made that clear, because we were very concerned about the request that we were asked to take on a liability for 40,000 young people to volunteer during a pandemic.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee We'd have to double-check.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee Then the other possibility, sir, is that some groups actually drive down. They don't even go on the commercial flight.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee Certainly not in Ecuador.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee Private aircraft is a possibility, because—
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee Sir, that's not necessarily correct. You can also drive.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee It is a five-hour drive. It's a lovely drive, and you—
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee We host hundreds and hundreds of trips, sir.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee Sir, WE did not engage her before November of 2015, from my best understanding.
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger
Finance committee It was at that point, sir, that WE Days continued to grow, and we needed somebody to speak specifically on the issue of mental health. She came not as Madam Trudeau; she came as somebody who is very focused on that issue, something that's really relevant. If I'm not mistaken, i
July 28th, 2020Committee meeting
Marc Kielburger