Finance Minister Bill Morneau appeared Wednesday before a House of Commons committee that is probing a cancelled agreement for WE Charity to run a student-volunteer program.

During the hearing, Morneau admitted that he has made “significant” donations worth tens of thousands of dollars to WE Charity, and only just repaid $41,000 in what he says were previously unknown expenses due to the organization from family trips.

“I have not seen the line-by-line,” Morneau admitted when asked about the details of what those expenses entailed, and said he expected they were things like accommodation and meals.

The revelations that the WE Charity has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees to family members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has blanketed the government in yet another cloud of allegations of ethical violations.

Morneau, like Trudeau, is being investigated by the federal ethics watchdog for possible violations of conflict of interest rules.

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