Top bureaucrat says Trudeau, Morneau’s sign-off on WE Charity deal was necessary

'To the best of my knowledge, officials did not engage in a detailed scrutiny of the financial affairs of the organization,' says PCO Clerk Ian Shugart.

PCO Clerk Ian Shugart, pictured in this file photo, says the prime minister's involvement with WE Charity was already a 'well-known fact,' and 'it did not particularly cross my mind there was anything [else] that needed to be disclosed.' The Hill Times file photograph

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

July 21, 2020

The top federal bureaucrat says the “scale” of the $900-million program WE Charity had been enlisted to deliver needed the approval of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau, suggesting that it may have been difficult for them to extricate...

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