Canada's top bureaucrat said the public service did not vet WE's financial or governance structure.

WE Charity hired the public relations firm National to administer part of the federal government's Canada Student Service Grant in Quebec and French-speaking parts of the country.

The head of PSAC tells Mike Smyth that it's 'insulting' for Justin Trudeau to claim that only WE Charity could have administered the student grant program.

For the third time, Justin Trudeau has become the focus of a parliamentary ethics probe. Roy Green says that's not good for Trudeau, the Liberal Party or Canada.

"I knew there would be perception issues around this," Trudeau said, speaking to reporters less than 24 hours after making a rare prime ministerial appearance at a House of Commons committee over his role in the controversy.

WestJet, meanwhile, said it's still mulling over what to do about its sponsorship of the Toronto-based charity.

The opposition Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois have called on both Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau to resign.

In an interview with The West Block, Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne also said he has no connections to the WE organization.

WE gave up running the $912-million program amid controversy over hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees the WE organization paid to members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's family for appearances at WE events.

Some non-profits have already taken on some students but now don't know whether the government will actually cover the payments they've been promised.