WE Charity Document Saga Continues as Committees Stalled

WE Charity Document Saga Continues as Committees Stalled
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre rises in the House of Commons after the government delivered a fiscal snapshot in Ottawa on July 8, 2020. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Justina Wheale
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The on-again-off-again WE Charity document disclosure saga continued this week when Liberals briefly made a goodwill gesture to provide long-requested documents, only to walk that back by mid-week through continued filibusters.

The government’s standoff with opposition parties over the release of WE Charity documents was showing signs of breaking early in the week, as the Liberals agreed to provide some previously redacted documents requested by the finance committee to the non-partisan parliamentary law clerk.