The Story So Far ...

 The scandal that the Liberals would rather voters forget:

WE Charity — the organization under scrutiny for a now-cancelled deal to deliver a federal student volunteer grant program — is now registered to lobby the federal government and has retroactively registered more than 60 communication reports for contacts with public office holders since early 2019.

(Sidebar: how convenient.)

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WE Charity suddenly discloses dozens of previously-secret lobbying conversations with Trudeau government.

— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) August 13, 2020

 

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No! Not its real estate:

 WE Charity is scaling back its operations, making dozens of layoffs in Canada and the United Kingdom, while also looking to sell some of its real estate holdings in Toronto.

The charity has been embroiled in a political controversy since the Trudeau government chose it to run a now-abandoned student-volunteer program.

 

I'll just leave this right here:

Nestled deep in the narrow bylanes of south Kolkata, Nirmal Hriday provides a sanctuary to the destitute. Opened in 1952, two years after Mother Teresa formed the Missionaries of Charity—an order of nuns that has an international presence today—Nirmal Hriday provides shelter to 100 inmates as of now.

Originally an abandoned Kali temple, Mother Teresa converted it into the home for the poor with the help of some Indian officials.

  

That was the property dealing of a real charity.

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The New Democrats are joining the Conservative party in asking the federal lobbying watchdog to investigate whether the embattled WE Charity organization engaged in “improper lobbying” ahead of the Liberal government’s decision to award the charity a sole-sourced contract to administer a student volunteer grant program.

On Friday, NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus tweeted a letter containing the request to Lobbying Commissioner Nancy Belanger dated Aug. 10, four days before WE Charity told MPs it registered with the federal registry of lobbyists.

“I wrote to her … for an investigation because the more we learnt about (WE’s) government activities, the more concerning it became,” Angus said on Friday.

“We need an investigation here.”

 

Just like with SNC-Lavalin? 

 

That's why this won't sink Trudeau. 

Even if Canadians cared, the plutocracy is so entrenched and protected that nothing short of a civil war will wrest that power from its claws.