Tories Ask Languages Czar to Probe Choice of WE Charity for Student Program

Tories Ask Languages Czar to Probe Choice of WE Charity for Student Program
Conservative MP Richard Martel asks a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Sept. 17, 2018. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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OTTAWA—The federal Conservatives are asking the official languages commissioner to investigate the government’s choice of WE Charity to run a student grant program, saying the move showed contempt for francophones.

Conservative MP Richard Martel alleges in a letter to commissioner Raymond Theberge that the youth group did not have the ability to deliver the multimillion-dollar Canada Student Service Grant program in both of Canada’s official languages.