Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Tories can keep harping on the WE scandal if they want, but for the Liberals, the book has been closed..“We will continue to stay focused on what we need to do to support Canadians facing a very difficult time right now. The Conservatives continue to want to focus on WE Charity. So be it,” Trudeau said at a press conference Tuesday..“I appeared at committee myself months ago, we released thousands of pages of documents. We’ve been open and transparent on these questions. But the Conservatives continue want to focus on that, they certainly can. We will stay focused on Canadians while we let committees do their work independently.”.Before Trudeau prorogued Parliament in August, two House of Commons committees spent months investigating a multimillion-dollar federal program for students awarded to the now-defunct WE Charity in the spring.. Trudeau on WE scandal: Case closed .It was revealed members of Trudeau’s immediate family, including his mother and wife, had been paid $758,751 in speaking fees by the charity..The Tories want a new anticorruption committee to roll those two probes of the now-defunct Canada Student Services Grant into one..Trudeau instead suggests the issue is closed for the government and that its priority is dealing with COVID-19..… more to come.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
