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Bill Morneau, US-Canada Summit, Toronto, Apr 4, 2023
US-Canada Summit, Toronto, Apr 4, 2023. Photo: Eurasia Group, CC BY 2.0.

The Board · The Liberal family

Bill Morneau

Finance 2015 to Aug 2020

Morneau II, 13 May 2021: contravened ss. 6(1), 7 and 21 over WE. $41,366 in WE travel repaid.

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  • WE Charity: Morneau II, 13 May 2021: contravened ss. 6(1), 7 and 21; $41,366 in WE travel repaid 22 Jul 2020

Story · 2026-10-15 · Its own page

WE paid Trudeau's family. He stayed in the room for WE's deal.

His Finance Minister broke the ethics law three ways, the Commissioner found.

Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance, 2015 to August 2020, found in breach · Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, 2015 to March 2025, cleared · Craig Kielburger, WE's founder (Craig Kielburger) · Marc Kielburger, WE's founder (Marc Kielburger)

On 22 May 2020, Justin Trudeau's cabinet ratified a summer grant program for students, with WE Charity to run it. WE had paid the Prime Minister's mother for 27 speaking engagements and his brother for 9. It had invited his Finance Minister's wife and one of her daughters to Kenya, and the minister went with his family to WE's work in Ecuador; Morneau repaid WE's share of both trips in July 2020. Both men stayed in the room.

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