Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough conceded the government "dropped the ball" on its student volunteer grant program, and said she makes "no excuse or justification" for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau's roles in the resulting WE Charity controversy. WATCH | 'We should have not dropped the ball,' Qualtrough says:Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough conceded the government "dropped the ball" on its student volunteer grant program, and said she offers "no excuse or justification" for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau's roles in the resulting WE Charity controversy. Clerk of the Privy Council Ian Shugart told MPs he saw no red flags in the WE deal that warranted giving special advice to the prime minister. She said the conversation focused on a separate youth entrepreneur initiative, which Kielburger was proposing, not the student volunteer program. "We know that the prime minister isn't going to take responsibility, he never does.

Source: CBC News August 11, 2020 16:16 UTC