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Conservative members of parliamentary committees scrutinizing the WE Charity scandal have warned the Kielburger brothers the organization’s co-founders they could be forced to testify and potentially face legal consequences if they refuse to attend.
The WE founders have declined requests to testify before two House of Commons committees.
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Compelling witnesses to appear before committees is a longstanding but infrequently used power. Even rarer would be the circumstance where a warrant is issued by the House of Commons to force a private citizen to explain their refusal, which could involve being held in contempt of Parliament, and lead to prison time.
WE Charity scandal: Here s what can happen if the Kielburger brothers refuse to testify before parliament
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Here s what can happen if the Kielburger brothers refuse to testify before parliament
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As the old saying goes, ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’.
However, when the Beef Stakeholders meetings were set up in 2019 following the beef protests and blockades, the interests of the consumers who buy beef were apparently overlooked.
It appears this oversight is now coming back to haunt the members of the Department of Agriculture’s Beef Task Force.
As part of the Irish Beef Sector Agreement (September 15, 2019) 2019, it was agreed to undertake “an independent review of market and customers’ requirements specifically in relation to the four in-spec bonus criteria currently in operation in the Irish beef sector.”