The Liberals are always involved in scandals that involve almost all members of the party, unlike scandals pertaining to other parties that usually have one or two people.
Well, this is no exception:
(Sidebar: read - they are so deeply mired in this fraud that if they don't step away, it will be they, not the Liberals,behind bars.)
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(Sidebar: why does a so-called charity have $38.7 million in prime real estate. Indeed, why does a so-called charity pay members of the same family to speak at charity events, $312,000 for twenty-eight speaking events? Why would the national public health agency, that couldn't supply masks, one might add, be involved and have a catering bill of $50,748? Why would a government, that already has an apparatus for dispersing public funds, let a so-called charity to which various family members are closely allied, hand out $912 million for a handful of students - alleged volunteers, strangely enough, earning $5,000, and then cancel the entire thing before rushing to claim it has done nothing wrong? So many questions ...)
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"White savior"? Like, all leftists are? Like these ideological and financial frauds that flit about with next to no scrutiny from the people these things are supposed to benefit from them? Those saviors?:
Arrogance, narcissism, mental rot, financial gain - pick a motive.
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Interesting:
(Sidebar: please see here.)
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Oh, burn:
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(Merci)
Well, this is no exception:
The WE organization is cancelling its flagship “WE Day” events for the foreseeable future and is launching a major restructuring following weeks of controversy surrounding its ties to the Trudeau government.
(Sidebar: read - they are so deeply mired in this fraud that if they don't step away, it will be they, not the Liberals,behind bars.)
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Since that penny campaign in 2013, WE Charity has gone from listing $10.8 million in real estate holdings to $43.7 million reported to the Canada Revenue Agency in 2018, just five years later. ...
WE Charity’s headquarters at the corner of Queen St. E. and Parliament St. — just east of Toronto’s downtown core — is the anchor building for the massive pile of real estate that WE and its affiliated organizations have purchased.
It consists of 15 parcels of land owned by four different WE organizations – WE Charity, ME to WE Asset Holdings Inc., ME to WE Foundation and Imagine 1 Day International Organization.
These organizations are all part of what I call Kielburger Inc., the collection of charities, foundations and businesses that all have Craig and Marc Kielburger at their core. These affiliated organizations have not only bought up the south side of Queen St. — from Parliament to Berkeley Sts. — they’ve also bought up several properties on the north side of Queen St. and several on Berkeley, as well.It’s a strange situation for four organizations that are supposedly distinct each buying buildings and plots of land near each other. From the publicly available records, WE Charity has spent at least $23.1 million buying up real estate in that area, ME to WE Asset Holdings has spent $8.5 million, the ME to WE Foundation has spent $4.1 million and Imagine 1 Day has spent $2.9 million. ...
In total, that is $38.7 million buying up real estate in one up and coming Toronto neighbourhood. All from charities or businesses who have pledged to help the poor in the developing world.
(Sidebar: why does a so-called charity have $38.7 million in prime real estate. Indeed, why does a so-called charity pay members of the same family to speak at charity events, $312,000 for twenty-eight speaking events? Why would the national public health agency, that couldn't supply masks, one might add, be involved and have a catering bill of $50,748? Why would a government, that already has an apparatus for dispersing public funds, let a so-called charity to which various family members are closely allied, hand out $912 million for a handful of students - alleged volunteers, strangely enough, earning $5,000, and then cancel the entire thing before rushing to claim it has done nothing wrong? So many questions ...)
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"White savior"? Like, all leftists are? Like these ideological and financial frauds that flit about with next to no scrutiny from the people these things are supposed to benefit from them? Those saviors?:
WE partners with 18,000 schools and has engaged a million youth to date in their massive WE Day events. Within their expansive programming, you’ll find consistent encouragement to participate in international volunteer trips through Me to We.
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. We were given busywork — and fair enough. I wouldn’t trust unskilled teenagers to play a key role in building schools in my community, either.
At one point on our trip, we were brought to the house of a local woman to assist with home repairs. She smiled at us warily as we smoothed mud over the already well-maintained walls of her house.
This performative task was clearly more for our own experience than it was for the benefit of local stakeholders.
This work was continually framed by our Me To We facilitators as integral to changing the world.
I’m not alone in feeling that a voluntourism experience fell short of its intended impact. Volunteers with other organizations have shared stories of messing up a construction project so badly that local workers had to redo it each night, schools being built without any sustainability plans, and feeling that they actually slowed down progress on local projects with their lack of skills and knowledge.Even if my group had taken on more intensive work, this trip still would have contributed much more to our own personal development as volunteers than it would have to community change. Local tradespeople could carry out construction for a fraction of the cost of our trip’s price. Some may argue that the benefit of voluntourism lies in the perspective change of the volunteers, but I question why we need to become a tourist to the poverty of others to confront our own privilege.
Arrogance, narcissism, mental rot, financial gain - pick a motive.
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Interesting:
The defenders have already begun the obfuscation. “They were only being paid $19.5-million. They were administering $900-million.” Like Steve McIntyre always says, watch the pea.
The accounting for these entities is used in extremely misleading ways. Looking at the information from the Vivian Krause link on a cursory inspection it looks like, for the fiscal period ending August 31, 2019, that WE was paid $3.7-million to dole out $59.4-million to charitable programs, about 6.4% or 5.4% of total expenses of $68.2-million.
What few people seem to notice or understand is that there is another section in the report devoted solely to compensation. In the same fiscal period, WE paid out $19.9-million in total compensation for all postions for a staff of 352 full time employees and 29 part time employees, plus they paid another $2.9-million in professional and consulting fees for a total of $22.8-million dollars in compensation expenses.
It’s safe to say that a large amount of that $22.8-million is wrapped up in that $59.4-million charitable programs number which means $26.5-million was spent on compensation, professional and consulting fees, and management and administration fees. As a percentage, that’s 44.6% of what has been accounted to for programs or 38.9% of total expenses. In other words, after paying compensation as little as $36.6-million was spent on actual programs. I say as little as because some of the $22.8-million may show up in the fundraising and other expenses line items.
That’s a lot of compensation being paid in an organization that’s supposed to be made up predominantly of volunteers. In fact it averages out to $64,772 per full time employee. There are for profit companies that would come no where near that number.
So to those trolls defending WE and saying they were only getting $19.5-million they are ignoring either on purpose or through ignorance that there would be no additional compensation, consulting and professional costs. For example, you can bet that the money that was being paid to teachers and charitable orgs to recruit on behalf of WE for this program would have been expensed against the $900-million and not the $19.5-million.
All of this is not strictly illegal but it puts a lot of money in the hands of an organization that is choosing who gets hired and compensated. It would be a way to reward the right supporters and to prevent the wrong sort of people from benefiting. It is clearly an issue of lack of transparency to those who either donate to or benefit from WE. So the question comes back who made the decision to give this to WE and how was it made?
(Sidebar: please see here.)
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Oh, burn:
Dear
Justin,
The Finance Committee cannot get ahold of
anyone at PMO to arrange your testimony. Is there someone they should
ask for?
— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) July
15, 2020
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Maybe if we offer
Justin Trudeau a speaking fee we can convince him to testify at Finance
Committee on the WE scandal.
— pierrepoilievre
(@PierrePoilievre) July
16, 2020
(Merci)
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