Finance committee  In our demonstrated impact assessment, as I mentioned before, we go through every program the charity offers and look at the results that they have reported. We then clarify with the charity if there are additional results that they have not publicly reported so that we can get a

Finance committee  We can compare WE Charity generally to the organizations across the board, and on all metrics they rate relatively highly, except for the demonstrated impact metric, on which they are significantly under average. I can't speak specifically to any of the direct alternatives to W

Finance committee  We recommend that all donors, all funders should ideally take a look at our website and see our assessment, but also ask their own specific questions and, if they are so inclined, take a look at the audited financial statements and make their own assessment of what is going on wi

Finance committee  Possibly at a very small charitable organization.... I've probably seen this once, maybe twice, at a very small charitable organization, but never when a charity becomes anywhere close to the size of WE Charity.

Finance committee  The agreement specifically laid out the possibility of money flowing to other WE organizations, but I want to clarify.... I mean, the Kielburgers said that there was going to be no financial benefit to WE Charity, which is true. It is a charitable organization. They were not goin

Finance committee  They spent probably an additional two days on the impact assessment, so—

Finance committee  That was back in September 2019, I believe.

Finance committee  There have been questions about our assessments, and we love to learn. At Charity Intelligence, we love to learn and we love to hear what others have to say about our analysis, so thank you very much for the feedback. We will take that back and discuss it internally.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. My name is Greg Thomson. I'm the director of research for Charity Intelligence Canada. Charity Intelligence is itself a charity, one that analyzes Canadian charities to help donors be informed and give intelligently. Our website hosts free re

Government Operations committee  Is there typically scrutiny of any that do not respect official languages. Is that your question?

Government Operations committee  It would depend upon which jurisdiction they're working in. Certainly, for a charity working nationally, you would expect that it would have the ability to operate in both official languages.

Government Operations committee  I do not know the law on that. WE Charity did have some French-speaking folks on their payroll. I understand that some of them may have been let go, but that's all under review right now.

Government Operations committee  I believe that WE was weak in Quebec. They had an office there for about a year. I believe they closed their office in Montreal down in February. It was not an area of strength for them in the country, certainly. However, they also reported that they were going to hire PR firms

Government Operations committee  From what we can see, they were somewhat weaker in Quebec, certainly. That's all that we know.

Government Operations committee  I'm not sure I can necessarily say that they must be.... No.