During their opening statement as part of a House of Commons finance committee hearing on Tuesday, WE Charity’s co-founders, Craig and Marc Kielburger, defended what they billed as the good intentions behind a sole-sourced contract for their group to administer a federal student service grant program worth nearly a billion dollars, saying although “some have suggested that WE Charity was in dire financial straits” prior to the grant, “it simply isn’t true.”.