Students Ask Liberals to Scrap Grant Program as Morneau to Testify on WE Deal

Students Ask Liberals to Scrap Grant Program as Morneau to Testify on WE Deal
Finance Minister Bill Morneau rises during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on July 20, 2020. Morneau will appear today before a House of Commons committee that is probing a cancelled agreement for WE Charity to run a student-volunteer program.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—Two groups representing thousands of post-secondary students are calling on the Trudeau Liberals to abandon its troubled volunteer program and push its $900-million funding to other student supports.

The program the Liberals first unveiled in April proposed paying students up to $5,000 toward education costs based on the number of hours they volunteer.