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Politics This Morning: ‘No preferential treatment’: Trudeau says government did its ‘due diligence’ in assessing WE

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he expected the decision to award WE oversight of the student-grant program to be closely 'scrutinized,' and had asked the public service to make sure there 'due diligence' was conducted before moving forward. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

July 31, 2020

Good Friday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brushed aside accusations from the opposition that WE Charity may have benefited from its connections to the Trudeau family, saying that he "pushed back" against the recommendation that it be awarded oversight of the stud...

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