WE Charity never deserved to be namesake of political blundering: Giorno

WE Charity was caught up in political machinations by partisan actors, and the victims in this affair were, unfortunately, the many young people that benefited from WE’s programming and initiatives, according to the charity’s legal adviser.

After last summer’s WE Charity affair and the subsequent ethics investigations, former finance minister Bill Morneau, right, was found to have violated the Conflict of Interest Act, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was cleared. WE Charity never deserved to be the namesake of these politicians’ political blundering, writes Guy Giorno, a legal adviser to WE Charity The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GUY GIORNO

May 19, 2021

History has a habit of naming political scandals after anything but the politicians themselves. The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize “for its investigation of the Watergate case...

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