WE Charity’s Unusual ‘Backwash’ Financial Activity Raises Questions

WE Charity’s Unusual ‘Backwash’ Financial Activity Raises Questions
WE co-founders Craig (L) and Marc Kielburger introduce Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau as they appear at the WE Day celebrations in Ottawa on Nov. 10, 2015. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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The Epoch Times posed a series of questions to WE Charity but didn’t hear back by publication time. The organization has since responded. We Charity’s full response is at the end of this article.

The relationship between WE Charity—the Kielburger brothers’ charity at the centre of the scandal dogging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau—and the brothers’ for-profit venture ME to WE is blurring the lines between business and philanthropy, says the managing director of an organization that evaluates charities in Canada.