Finance committee  Yes, it's been a wide variety of support, and we're very proud of that.

Finance committee  Thank you. We very much had the capacity. With the layoffs, we went from 390 employees at WE Charity to, at the end, down to, quite sincerely, a wonderful team of 187. So the team was impacted. We needed to make some very strong decisions because of the pandemic, but we also had

Finance committee  We were ready to do something really special, thanks to all of these amazing people, and thanks to an amazing team.

Finance committee  Thank you, sir. I believe he participated in one. We have great respect for him. I'm a big fan. However, our understanding is that his activities outside of WE Day were very limited. I can't speak to that directly, but I would assume that the answer is likely no, sir.

Finance committee  Sir, we're not sure if he was at the halo events, and I can't speak to that directly. However, when we bring in speakers, sir, who are paid, it's for the multitude of ancillary events that are formal and formalized within their [Technical difficulty--Editor].

Finance committee  Though, again, he's a wonderful person, and we were thrilled to have him.

Finance committee  We're very grateful—

Finance committee  On another note, very quickly, Mr. Chair, we did invite former Prime Minister Harper many, many times to speak on WE Day.

Finance committee  Yes, thank you. I just want to confirm very formally, under oath, that it's not just members of the Trudeau family who have done this. A series of other speakers have also participated in that process.

Finance committee  Sir, we really wanted to help. We understood that the circumstances necessitated us to put up our hand as quickly as possible. The dates of the program launch shifted many times. This was originally supposed to be early June, and then, of course, it ended up being the end of Ju

Finance committee  And the monetary amounts...?

Finance committee  Including.... One of the areas we would like to clear up formally is this whole concept of $10 an hour for volunteer service. We were very much concerned about that. We voiced that concern multiple times, sir, as an example—

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, just one moment, please. We felt that it did need to be minimum wage. These are some of the pieces that we felt very passionate about as part of this process, but we were working with what was asked of us.

Finance committee  No, sir, she was not. I just want to stress again that we're happy to answer your questions. We're here to answer the questions.

Finance committee  Actually, that's incorrect, sir. It was for up to 100,000 young people, or specifically 100,000 young people, and the program itself was up to $543 million, depending on the number of volunteer hours of service. Our assumption, based on the models we did, sir, was that this wou