Commentary
When news broke of the resignation of the CEO and board of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation, former principal secretary to the prime minister, Gerald Butts, angrily stated on Twitter: “Congratulations to the Globe and Mail. That’s two charities in three years you’ve taken down, tough guys. You must be so proud.”
The second charity Butts was referring to is presumably the WE Charity that closed its Canadian operations in 2020 due to a conflict-of-interest scandal with the Trudeau government.
It’s unfortunate to see major charities scaling back or ceasing operations due to breaches of public trust. Charities don’t need to be protected from media as Butts is trying to imply, though. Charities need to be protected from governments….