Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
CBC FACTCHECK, October 2019: The Conservatives’ misleading claims about a ‘secret’ Liberal housing tax
Blacklocks, July 2020; CMHC is spending $250,000 researching a first-ever federal home equity tax. Organizers of the research project earlier likened homeowners to lottery winners whose residences were tax shelters: “The objective is to identify solutions that could level the playing field between renters and owners.”
A Million People Are Jailed at China’s Gulags
Few prisoners have succeeded in getting out of the camps and telling their story. Sauytbay’s testimony is even more extraordinary, because during her incarceration she was compelled to be a teacher in the camp. China wants to market its camps to the world as places of educational programs and vocational retraining, but Sauytbay is one of the few people who can offer credible, firsthand testimony about what really goes on in the camps.
A full two weeks after we noticed her at SDA…
As I posted yesterday (re: Kielburger call):
The senior bureaucrat who "recommended" #WECharity for $912M sole-source contract was Rachel Wernick: the sister of Michael Wernick (ex-PCO Clerk).Does throwing yourself under the bus for PMJT run in the Wernick family?#LavScam https://t.co/PU2LemFd5N
— Sen. Denise Batters (@denisebatters) July 16, 2020
In 2012, Craig Kielburger challenged school kids across the country to help change the world with the smallest of donations, the penny.
“There is nothing more impactful I can see the penny doing,” Kielburger told the crowd at the We Day in Toronto. Sharing the stage that day with celebrities such as Martin Sheen, Al Gore and Justin Trudeau, Kielburger asked young people to save their change to save the world.
By the end of the 2013 school year, $1.4 million was raised from more than 3,000 schools across the country. They were told they would be helping to give people clean drinking water; I wonder how those children would feel knowing they were donating to a charity that was about to become a major player in real estate.
And more… For 2 months between October and December 2019, Teresa Tam and the Public Health Agency of Canada hired WE Charity for unspecified services, in a sole-source contract, totalling $25,000.
Cashing in on empty voluntourism;
In 2012, I was in Rajasthan, India alongside a group of other keen young Canadians, ready to change the world with Me To We. Although our group was sponsored by a corporation, the three-week trip would have normally cost around $5,000 per participant.
We were told that we’d be contributing to the building of a school in a rural community. In reality, we spent the first week moving a pile of bricks from one side of the work site to the other, the second week moving them back, and the third week painting some walls the wrong colour. […]When I came home from India, Me to We seemed less concerned with me going forward and pursuing more impactful change than they were in getting me to spend more money. I was soon emailed about purchasing another volunteer trip.
Reflecting the realities of COVID-19, we are cancelling WE Day activities for the foreseeable future. We are proud to have hosted 137 WE Days welcoming over 1.5 million students who earned their free tickets by contributing 70 million hours of service to 3,000+ charities and causes.
Finally, we recognize that 25 years of rapid expansion and ground-breaking social entrepreneurship has resulted in an organizational structure that is more complicated than it needs to be. We are proud of the social impact WE has enabled, but we realize that its structure needs to be easier to understand and more transparent for all our stakeholders. We also recognize it is time to review some of our policies and practices.
When the media started asking questions, WE Charity backed away from almost a billion dollars.
The questions persisted, and now WE Charity is backing away from our classrooms and our kids.
I have more questions.
— Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) July 16, 2020
Uh-oh. JT asked WE Charity to host a 2017 Canada Day event on Parliament Hill, Kieleburger said, for which the govt paid $1.18 M. And his mother, who had been receiving fees for making public appearances at WE events at the time, was a speaker at the event. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/zJNgpsx4UI
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) July 15, 2020
Lilley: A Deeper Look At Kielburger Inc.
With @WeCharity in the news, I looked at its funding.
WE has 2 parts, the charity & the for-profit business.
As for We Charity, over the past decade it has had total revenue of $433 million.
In 2019, 40% of @WeCharity revenue was from outside Canada: https://t.co/NcPx4Kvaqa pic.twitter.com/YtJnif6lN2
— Vivian Krause (@FairQuestions) July 13, 2020
Juxtapose: @JustinTrudeau’s family gets $300,000 for speaking at WE. Canadian singer @JullyBlack says WE told her it doesn’t pay for WE appearances, still performed because she made commitment though mom was gravely ill. Says WE wouldn’t even pay $100 for phone calls.
The interview with Jesse Brown of Canadaland begins at the 5:10 mark.
“I’m sorry that my creativeness and caring made the mean people hurt the children. because I only did it for the children.”
Featured Comment from alecincgy;
WE.org are embedded in the K-12 system, I had no idea how or what WE-DAY was until last year when it came up talking to one of my kids.
From the financials on the WE website for 2019 they collected $2.3M from governments and a staggering $15.5M from youth. 10% of revenue was spent on admin ($6.5M).
https://www.we.org/en-CA/about-we/we-charity/governance/financial-reports
That nice round 10% spent on admin seems high to me. They are proud of their 10% (from their FAQ’s). By comparison the Canadian Red Cross runs at 3% and they provide sweeping services across the country. Other excellent charaties are even more efficiently administered.
Here is MacLeans list of the top 100 charaties in Canada. I can’t see WE on the list.
It seems the WE.org expenditures are education and WE projects. They don’t carry reserve cash, they invest in real estate and then mortgage when necessary.
I honestly hope that with such high annual revenue ($57.9M) that they help large numbers of people (besides the deeply unfortunate Trudeaus and their cronies of course). What would they have done with $900M, or even the $90M in administrative costs (at 10%)?
But I repeat myself.
The We Charity scandal continues to snowball after it was revealed today that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Chief of Staff Katie Telford co-founded a group that worked “in support” of Free the Children, which is a branch of the WE Charity.
As well as this, Trudeau’s Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O’Regan served as the Honorary Chair of this organization, which was named Artbound.
Wow!!! I was asked to speak at a We Day and they said we don’t pay our speakers.
— Theo Fleury (@TheoFleury14) July 9, 2020
More: things you’re going to see on the CBC…
The look on @ChantalHbert face when @RosieBarton tried to defend Trudeau was priceless pic.twitter.com/T8IrwfBIwg
— John (@Downtown476) July 10, 2020
WE Charity offered camps up to $25K each to recruit volunteers for Liberal grants
On a recording obtained by National Post of a June 12 video call between WE Charity and over 100 attendees, mostly from summer camp organizations, co-founder Marc Kielburger explained that he was looking for camps who can help WE Charity “move a reasonable volume” of volunteers.
“If your non-profit camp that could potentially move a reasonable volume of young people, and that for us is about 75-plus young people throughout the summer … there are additional funds that we can provide to you up to $25,000 towards your administration of that towards the camp,” Kielburger explained to attendees of the meeting. […]
In addition to $25,000 grants to camps who welcomed at least 75 volunteers, WE Charity promised in a posting on its website earlier this week to pay $12,000 to any teacher who recruited at least 75 student volunteers…
In other words, they were going to buy volunteers before paying them.
PLEASE FORGET YOU EVER SAW OUR SLEAZE: WE Charity won’t be managing Student Grant program, says Minister Chagger’s office.
Yesterday I mentioned that Marc Kielburger sat as a director for two entities. The first turns out to be ME to WE Styles, Inc., a private company that consisted of one clothing store in Toronto. The store went under during the Wuhan quarantine. The second is Prince s Charities Canada, a charity of Prince Charles. It is legit, even though, well, the Prince is not.
I did find out that brother Craig Kielburger has two numbered companies, which can be seen here.
According to Wiki, numbered companies in Canada have numbers assigned to them from Industry Canada, if the person wants his corporations as a numbered company. There are essentially two reasons for them The first is that the entrepreneur is holding the company until he can find a good brand name for the company. The other is for tax avoidance or money laundering reasons, etc. Note that brother Craig s numbered companies are now four years old. […]
Here is some info on 14 Candlelight Drive, Richmond Hill, ON, where Craig Kielburger s two numbered companies are based: https://richmond-hill.listing.ca/14-candlelight-dr.htm
According to the above link, the house is valued at $1.9-million. It would be interesting to see who owns this house.
“To be specific, contact came to We Charity the week of April 26th from a Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Skills and Employment Branch at Employment and Social Development Canada.”
…”a” Senior Assistant Deputy Minister?
Look who she follows.
The plot thickens …WE Charity saw resignations, departures from senior ranks before landing government contract
Bumped for update.
WE Charity, which has close ties to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family — and which will receive millions of dollars to administer a federal student volunteer grant program — has received a series of exclusively sole-source contracts from the federal government over the last three years, government records show. Sole-source contracts are government contracts that are handed directly to a chosen supplier, without the opportunity for others to provide competing bids for the government business.
Update: National Post has more.
According to the government’s online database of government contracts, WE Charity has received five federal contracts worth a total of $120,000 since March 2017. Four of the five contracts have been in the last 15 months, with the most recent — and largest, until now, at $40,000 — dated January 2020. […] The contracts were for vague services such as “Management consulting”, “Public relations services” and, in three cases, “Other professional services not otherwise specified,” according to the data, first brought to light by writer and activist Nora Loreto on social media over the weekend.
Purely coincidental: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he would begin scaling back his daily press briefings
Huh. There are accusations about WE Charity. I have no idea if it’s legitimate, but the Kielburger kid always struck me as creepy.
Chretien was so old school with his brown bags and Liberal friendly ad agencies: Trudeau says charity with ties to him and his wife ‘only one’ that could run COVID-19 student volunteer grant program