WE Scandal: Opinion Piece in "The Toronto Star," by Susan Phillips

“The Canada Student Service Grant might have been well-intentioned, but it was so fundamentally flawed that no organization, including the public service, could have successfully delivered it. The CSSG planned to do the impossible…” –Susan Phillips

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020 in News & Events
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