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

Plus, the House Finance Committee is slated to hear from Canadaland's Jesse Brown and Finance Minister Bill Morneau today, and the Kielburger brothers, of WE Charity fame, will appear before members next week.

PCO Clerk Ian Shugart, pictured July 21 at a House Finance Committee hearing, says the public service did its due diligence, pushing back at Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre's suggestion that, in not raising concerns about WE Charity's finances, there was a 'failure of duty.'Screen capture via ParlVu

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

July 22, 2020

Good Wednesday morning, Canada's top public servant, Ian Shugart, testified that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau's sign-off was needed for the deal with WE Charity to

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