Information & Ethics committee  We worked with NATIONAL PR for years with our WE Days in Montreal—l’Organisme UNIS. We have had WE Days for many years, and NATIONAL PR was involved with those WE Days.

Information & Ethics committee  It was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. We're happy to look into that.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. We're happy to provide an overview.

Information & Ethics committee  We were.

Information & Ethics committee  No concerns were raised.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  There are so many schools. We used to work in 7,000 schools across the country, and we will not be able to do that. We were providing amazing things like mental health resources. These are schools in Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands, for example. We will not be able to work with

Information & Ethics committee  Prior to this political situation, we had about 400 schools active in Quebec with us. Prior to the CSSG, we had about 12 full-time staff in our Montreal office and about 16 when the program was launched; but we were asked to turn ourselves into a pretzel to help the government

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Poilievre, you're not even officially a member of this committee and you're answering your own questions, so feel free to answer your own questions.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, we've shared with Mr. Angus that WE would have been open to registering to lobby at any point, but volunteers cannot register to lobby. Mr. Chair, the challenge we have here is that Mr. Angus has said many false statements during his remarks. For the context of the co

Information & Ethics committee  Again, I understand your question. Please feel free to ask ESDC that question. We were very transparent with them.

Information & Ethics committee  To my knowledge [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Information & Ethics committee  We created proper insurance and we were very clear with that, for ESDC. It was in the tens of millions of dollars.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Fortin, that request was made because at the last minute during the contract negotiations we were requested to take full liability for 40,000 young people as part of the program, during a pandemic. The Government of Canada asked us to take full liability for that program. W

Information & Ethics committee  You'd have to ask that question, sir, to ESDC. We were very clear with ESDC why we felt it was necessary to put the contract in that foundation body because of the request to take on the liability for 40,000 young people during the pandemic, and it was a last-moment request durin