Information & Ethics committee  What I can bring to this committee is the confirmation that I had no direct knowledge of any payments or outstanding payments that any minister or donor would or would not have made at any point in time. The scope of my responsibility did not include that, and therefore—

Information & Ethics committee  —my due diligence did not include engaging with other departments to ensure whether or not that was the case.

Information & Ethics committee  In total I worked for WE Charity for about three years.

Information & Ethics committee  When I first started at WE Charity in 2017, my role was associate director for strategy.

Information & Ethics committee  In that role, I would be overseeing preparation of specialized proposals for governments, for non-profits and for donors, and I oversaw a team as well.

Information & Ethics committee  It varied, depending on the point in time, but it was as small as four people and as big as nine people.

Information & Ethics committee  Given my academic background in social policy and my work for other non-profits prior to starting at WE Charity, it became evident that I was very helpful in crafting specialized proposals and in identifying good avenues for WE Charity to advance important youth programs across C

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, of course. I did a bachelor's in international relations and I also did a master's in public policy and international relations. Within that, I focused almost exclusively on youth education and equity in access to services so that society at large wouldn't be discriminated

Information & Ethics committee  From what I recall from that meeting with Minister Chagger, within the mandate of her office she was tasked with overseeing and ensuring that the Canada Service Corps program, which has nothing to do with the Canada student service grant, which later became a program—or it didn't

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't recall word for word what Minister Chagger said regarding the service piece, but I do remember it was focused mainly on the social entrepreneurship proposal that we had at hand.

Information & Ethics committee  I've been in contact with previous employees of WE Charity. I built a number of meaningful relationships with previous colleagues, so I would say, broadly speaking, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  At the government, I haven't engaged with public officials or elected officials at all.

Information & Ethics committee  I find it unnecessary to name all my personal friends in public at this point in time, if that's okay.

Information & Ethics committee  No.