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But as for Trudeau’s role in awarding a $500-million, untendered contract to the WE Charity to run the Canada Student Service Grant program, it’s perfectly reasonable to conclude Trudeau put himself into a conflict of interest in the WE affair in the common understanding of that term.
The Liberals defend Trudeau by arguing there’s no “smoking gun”.
That is, no recorded phone conversations, emails or memos, no admission by a cabinet minister or public servant, that Trudeau instructed him or her to do something on the WE file proving Trudeau committed a conflict of interest.
But none of that is required to conclude Trudeau was in a conflict of interest in the WE Charity controversy as that term is widely understood to mean.
Trudeau was in a conflict of interest because at every stage of the development of the now-cancelled WE contract, the public servants who drafted it and the cabinet ministers who, led by Trudeau, approved it, were aware of Trudeau’s relationship with WE and its co-founders Craig and Marc Kielburger.
Not of the financial relationships of his family members to the charity — that came out later.
But rather of Trudeau’s public support for WE by appearing at its events.
By publicly speaking in support of it along with his wife, Sophie Gregoire.
By publicly describing WE co-founders Craig and Marc Kielburger as friends (which he bizarrely denied in his testimony) and by the public displays of affection between the Trudeaus and the Kielburgers.
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