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WE routinely engaged independent third parties to guide us in developing policies and programs, and to study and report on everything from our workplace culture to our governance and finances. That’s how we learn, improve and grow our impact. \\n\\nIn that spirit, WE Charity has always done its best to cooperate fully with Charity Intelligence by providing information and responding to questions. \\n\\nIt is concerning, given the role Charity Intelligence purports to deliver unbiased and apolitical assessments, that it and its executive director, Kate Bahen, would routinely display an astonishing talent for dishonesty and unprofessionalism, particularly during the CSSG fiasco and Ms. Bahen’s testimony before Parliamentary committee.  \\n\\nIn a three-page letter to Charity Intelligence on [**July 21, 2020**](https://staticsb.we.org/f/52095/x/cdabb9319a/charity-intellegence-letter-july-21.pdf), WE Charity identified their inaccurate and misleading statements to date, and then follow-up on [**August 6, 2020**](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/we-charity-s-statement-in-response-to-testimony-by-charity-intelligence-before-the-standing-committee-on-finance-818451226.html) to correct the record on additional statements made on social media and in their testimony at the Standing Committee on Finance. Charity Intelligence never responding to either public letter, and their false statements have gone uncorrected.  \\n\\nThe organization's assault on WE Charity, based on half-truths and outright fabrications, continued to Charity Intelligence’s own ranking profile on its website. To correct the record, we also provided statements in response to their biased, dishonest and unwarranted evaluation of WE Charity. Charity Intelligence has chosen not to publish [**these statements**](https://www.we.org/en-CA/about-we/we-charity/we-charity-response-to-charity-intelligence-and-kate-bahen) from August 2023 and February 2024. \\n\\nA more fulsome accounting of CI’s dishonesty can be found in those statements, however, we have documented the most egregious false statements by Charity Intelligence and Ms. Bahen and provided the facts correcting each statement. \",\"BlockMarginBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockPaddingBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockBackgroundColor\":\"\"},{\"Size\":\"S\",\"Text\":\"ISSUE: False statement on details about the CSSG, including the value and what information would be publicly available.\",\"_uid\":\"72163416-dd14-4b65-b89d-2beb5c23ba9c\",\"Columns\":12,\"Centered\":false,\"component\":\"Title\",\"Underlined\":false,\"BlockHtmlId\":\"\",\"BlockSpacing\":\"\",\"IsHeadingOne\":false,\"BlockMarginTop\":\"ExtraTight\",\"UnderlineColor\":\"brand-blue-color\",\"BlockPaddingTop\":\"ExtraTight\",\"BlockMarginBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockPaddingBottom\":\"ExtraTight\",\"BlockBackgroundColor\":\"brand-yellow-color\"},{\"Size\":\"XS\",\"Text\":\"NUMBER OF FALSE STATEMENTS ON THIS TOPIC: 1\",\"_uid\":\"dbfe7910-b7bb-4bd4-9a1b-d48e4888f976\",\"Columns\":12,\"Centered\":false,\"component\":\"ParagraphHeader\",\"BlockHtmlId\":\"\",\"BlockMarginTop\":\"ExtraTight\",\"BlockPaddingTop\":\"None\",\"BlockMarginBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockPaddingBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockBackgroundColor\":\"\"},{\"Name\":\"stating-value-of-cssg-program\",\"_uid\":\"35f0e74f-b4b4-40ed-9ae9-1ca983f58025\",\"component\":\"Accordion\",\"BlockHtmlId\":\"\",\"AccordionItems\":[{\"_uid\":\"3ecf44b8-adc7-4cf5-92f4-b91cf1dfa966\",\"Title\":\"False Statements\",\"BodyText\":\"“$900 Million. Journalists cannot use ATIP. MPs cannot review this spending at committee. The Auditor General will not be able to audit it. Trudeau Liberals will not even disclose the contract details.” (July 26, 2020, Kate Bahen, Twtiter)\",\"component\":\"AccordionItem\",\"DefaultOpen\":false},{\"_uid\":\"75a448d3-a713-49d7-bba9-5cfd39ad84cb\",\"Title\":\"The Facts\",\"BodyText\":\"The total value of the contribution agreement was $543.5M, not $500M to $900 million.  \\n\\n The correct value of the contribution agreement was in the public domain prior to Ms Bahen’s tweet.  \\n\\n There were several provisions in the contribution agreement that would ensure the greatest level of transparency, including bi-weekly reporting, a requirement by WE to share copies of all project-related books and records with the government at any time during the life of the project, and ability for the government to audit and verify the use of government funds on eligible expenditures, both during the life of the project and for six years after the end of the project. \\n\\n Additionally, WE was required to cooperate with and provide any project-related books and records to the Auditor General of Canada upon request in the context of an inquiry by the Auditor General. 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Another WE Charity entity registered, WE BELIEVE in New Brunswick in May 2020.” (December 16, 2020, Charity Intelligence, Twitter) \",\"component\":\"AccordionItem\",\"DefaultOpen\":false},{\"_uid\":\"61ef711c-75d1-4faf-9d5f-d0b7e06ce500\",\"Title\":\"The Facts\",\"BodyText\":\"WE Charity announced on September 9, 2020 that they are winding down the organization’s operations in Canada. The organization will be selling its assets to establish an endowment fund to sustain the charity’s existing international humanitarian programs and digitize its Canadian educational resources for long-term access.  \\n\\nThe endowment fund will support WE Villages projects in Latin America, Asia and Africa that are currently underway, but are not yet completed. It will also fund key, large-scale infrastructure projects that need ongoing support, like the Baraka Hospital and WE College in Narok County,,Kenya, and the Agricultural Learning Centre in Ecuador. Going forward, there will be no new schools, water or agricultural projects, and no expansion to new communities in the nine countries where WE Charity is active. \\n\\n We Believe Saint John not part of the WE family of organizations. \\n\\n In December 2016, what is now known as We Believe – Saint John Inc., was born. 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That is a massive, massive red flag.” (July 18, 2020, Kate Bahen, Canadaland) \\n\\n “WE Charity also stated to us publicly in the letter they posted that it was an accounting paperwork, which is a different interpretation from ours of bank covenants.” (August 6, 2020, Kate Bahen, FINA) \\n\\n “Facts matter. WE Charity’s F2018 audited financial statements reported breach of bank loan covenants, $39.4m in Toronto real estate leveraged against short-term bank loans. Charity Intelligence reported this in August 2019... before covid, CSSG.” (September 9, 2020, Kate Bahen, Twitter) \",\"component\":\"AccordionItem\",\"DefaultOpen\":false},{\"_uid\":\"b88f4e91-d351-4da7-adf2-3b2aef2ecba6\",\"Title\":\"The Facts\",\"BodyText\":\"The so-called ‘breach of covenant’ (and note that the WE auditor did NOT use the term “breach” in its notes to the audited financial statement) were a non-issue and were a technicality arising from WE Charity’s change in fiscal year in 2017. \\n\\n This is an accounting principle “on paper only”, wherein WE Charity’s lender recognized the situation and willingly waived the respective requirements without any issue or concern on their part. There was no difficulty with WE Charity credit. \\n\\n For example, one of the covenants within WE Charity’s mortgage provisions is that it must generate positive EBITDA (Earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization) to cover 1.3 times the mortgage payments in the fiscal year. In 2017/2018, WE Charity shifted its fiscal year from January-December to September-August to align with the academic year and how expenses are incurred, resulting in a shortened fiscal year. This shifted when donations were “recognized”. In accordance with accounting principles, charities must recognize a donation in the same timeframe when the funds will be spent on projects. WE Charity has a number of multi-year contracts with philanthropic partners. As a result of the change of the fiscal year, WE Charity needed to defer revenue to align with the fiscal year in which the program would occur, thus affecting two fiscal years – 2018 and 2019. \\n\\n Dr. AL Rosen, a specialist in Investigative and Forensic Accounting (CA-IFA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a specialist in Investigative and Forensic Accounting (CA-IFA), with the support of analysis by Froese Forensic Partners, independently reviewed WE’s finances at the time of negotiating the contract. He concluded that, “WE was financially viable at the time of the signing of the CSSG Funding Agreement with the Federal Government and was not in any financial peril.”  \",\"component\":\"AccordionItem\",\"DefaultOpen\":false}],\"BlockMarginTop\":\"ExtraTight\",\"BlockPaddingTop\":\"None\",\"BlockMarginBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockPaddingBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockBackgroundColor\":\"\"},{\"Size\":\"S\",\"Text\":\"ISSUE: False statement that the entire WE Charity Board of Directors had either resigned or were replaced in March 2020.\",\"_uid\":\"f741197a-73ab-488e-8108-758a62b44d44\",\"Columns\":12,\"Centered\":false,\"component\":\"Title\",\"Underlined\":false,\"BlockHtmlId\":\"\",\"BlockSpacing\":\"\",\"IsHeadingOne\":false,\"BlockMarginTop\":\"ExtraTight\",\"UnderlineColor\":\"brand-blue-color\",\"BlockPaddingTop\":\"ExtraTight\",\"BlockMarginBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockPaddingBottom\":\"ExtraTight\",\"BlockBackgroundColor\":\"brand-yellow-color\"},{\"Size\":\"XS\",\"Text\":\"NUMBER OF FALSE STATEMENTS ON THIS TOPIC: 3\",\"_uid\":\"1325ae4c-01b8-40e1-863f-973b8e88d0b9\",\"Columns\":12,\"Centered\":false,\"component\":\"ParagraphHeader\",\"BlockHtmlId\":\"\",\"BlockMarginTop\":\"ExtraTight\",\"BlockPaddingTop\":\"None\",\"BlockMarginBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockPaddingBottom\":\"None\",\"BlockBackgroundColor\":\"\"},{\"Name\":\"claim-wc-shell-company\",\"_uid\":\"a90b75fd-bcda-436c-b5c4-42a5f5390217\",\"component\":\"Accordion\",\"BlockHtmlId\":\"\",\"AccordionItems\":[{\"_uid\":\"e58fbb89-7624-47a4-aa48-4ace3d579d83\",\"Title\":\"False Statements\",\"BodyText\":\"“Govts due diligence knew this right? So facing a pandemic, financial pressures, massive layoffs... perfect time to launch new strategic direction in response to WE’s 25th birthday? Rookie board, colleagues of bros, and no financial experience. This is out of control.” (July 2, 2020, Kate Bahen Twitter) \\n \\n“Did WE Charity inform the government that its board had resigned or was replaced just weeks before, and that there was a gap in governance and oversight at the charity? … Oh and by the way — it has no board.” (July 18, 2020, Kate Bahen, Canadaland) \\n\\n “It’s rare for all but one of charity director to leave.” (July 27, 2020, Kate Bahen, Twitter) \",\"component\":\"AccordionItem\",\"DefaultOpen\":false},{\"_uid\":\"e26e89dc-a9db-460f-b289-d65d3aac532d\",\"Title\":\"The Facts\",\"BodyText\":\"The WE Charity Board was not fired.  \\n\\n Of the seven current Directors on the WE Charity North American Board, four have each served for three or more years. \\n\\n The Board is composed of skilled individuals who have expertise in law, finance and education. They provide strong overall governance.\\n\\n WE Charity is grateful to Michelle Douglas, the Chair of the Board of Directors of WE Charity. 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It’s extremely commercial.  No other charity has what we have called backwash…. You don’t see donations go from the non-profit to the profit” (July 14, 2020, Kate Bahen, Global News Radio) \\n\\n“In the last 2 years 7% and 8 % of WE Charity total revenues have been paid to ME to WE.” (Kate Bahen, Global News Radio, July 14) \\n\\n“That had grown. Before, it was one percent, two percent. What you see is them ramp up in fiscal 2018 when eight percent of WE Charity’s total revenues are going into the private business and in 2019, seven percent.” (July 18, 2020, Kate Bahen, Canadaland)  \\n \\n“The related party transactions with 8% of donations to WE Charity going to ME to WE, the private business controlled by Marc and Craig Kielburger, to purchase goods and services.” (August 6, 2020, Kate Bahen, FINA) \\n\\n “On the related parties' transactions, with WE Charity providing cash to ME to WE, and ME to WE providing back to WE Charity support, which is cash and also donated goods or time, we would like to have greater disclosure about how much of ME to WE's contribution to WE Charity was cash and how much was donated time. I think the audited financial statements meet all the disclosure requirements on these transactions.” (August 6, 2020, Kate Bahen, FINA) \\n\\n “Since the beginning, WE Charity's financials report ME to WE contributed $12.6m to WE Charity, (not \\\"over $20m\\\" as advertised.)  And WE Charity paid ME to WE $11.4m. Nets out to $1.2m.” (February 14, 2020, Kate Bahen, Twitter) \",\"component\":\"AccordionItem\",\"DefaultOpen\":false},{\"_uid\":\"622c6348-a498-4c8c-97cb-3b32d91a7693\",\"Title\":\"The Facts\",\"BodyText\":\"“WE Charity is so unique and so complex unlike any charity I have analyzed. It’s extremely commercial.  No other charity has what we have called backwash…. You don’t see donations go from the non-profit to the profit” (July 14, 2020, Kate Bahen, Global News Radio) \\n\\n “In the last 2 years 7% and 8 % of WE Charity total revenues have been paid to ME to WE.” (Kate Bahen, Global News Radio, July 14) \\n\\n “That had grown. Before, it was one percent, two percent. What you see is them ramp up in fiscal 2018 when eight percent of WE Charity’s total revenues are going into the private business and in 2019, seven percent.” (July 18, 2020, Kate Bahen, Canadaland)  \\n \\n“The related party transactions with 8% of donations to WE Charity going to ME to WE, the private business controlled by Marc and Craig Kielburger, to purchase goods and services.” (August 6, 2020, Kate Bahen, FINA) \\n\\n “On the related parties' transactions, with WE Charity providing cash to ME to WE, and ME to WE providing back to WE Charity support, which is cash and also donated goods or time, we would like to have greater disclosure about how much of ME to WE's contribution to WE Charity was cash and how much was donated time. 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