Finance committee  Sir, we understand that this information is coming from a group called Charity Intelligence. I want to apply some context to answer your question. This is a group that lost its charitable status in 2012. It's a group that—

Finance committee  I'm about to answer your question.

Finance committee  I understand, sir. It has three board members, based on their 2019 filings, two of whom work for the organization. For us, yes, we have the U.S. entities, and as part of our own Korn Ferry review, we're evaluating those entities. We need to look exactly at this very specific in

Finance committee  I have two points, sir. Yes, we'll share it. The only organization that was being asked to be put at risk was WE Charity, by ESDC, by asking us to take 40,000 young people and assume full liability.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Let me explain, sir—

Finance committee  We are not paid by any one of those organizations—

Finance committee  By definition, we are not paid by any one of those organizations—

Finance committee  Sir, I'll let Craig provide some context, but nothing at this time was ordinary. The CERB is not ordinary. Paying 75% of companies' wages, which is what the Government of Canada is doing, is not ordinary. Having the conversation about a pandemic and seeing people, months ago, lit

Finance committee  Sir, we did explain to ESDC that we had to staff up for this experience. We were very clear with them that we had to let go some of our staff during the pandemic, and we explained that we were keen to bring some of those staff members back, in a short-term role, to help us with t

Finance committee  Sir, our objective was, again, simply to help, when Rachel Wernick asked us to help. That was the objective. Specifically, yes, we had to make some very difficult decisions. This was, again, the source of the conversation with the prior witness, Michelle Douglas. We have tremend

Finance committee  Sir, that was outlined.... All the financial terms, the payment terms, were outlined by ESDC.

Finance committee  Sir, we received funds for the first cohort of 20,000 young people, because we needed to ensure that those first 20,000 young people were engaged in the process. Second, we were asked by ESDC to help ensure that we had the mechanism to help provide the financial payments to up

Finance committee  Yes, sir, absolutely. Again, we just would like to respectfully ask the permission of those speakers to share their names, but I want to confirm, absolutely, sir. They come from all walks of life, sir, and they're very well-known Canadians, as you would imagine.

Finance committee  Minister Moore.