Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said the federal government is conducting a “comprehensive review” of funding for an anti-racism group whose lead consultant sent out a series of tweets about “Jewish white supremacists.”
Trudeau says the government is putting procedures in place to ensure that no hateful organization or person receives public money in the future.
Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen cut government funding from the Community Media Advocacy Center by $133,000 last week and suspended an anti-racism project he oversaw after ‘reprehensible and despicable’ tweets posted by its senior consultant , Laith Marouf, have been revealed.
Trudeau’s comments come as other previous funding for the organization is reviewed.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said he wants to see a clawback of the grants his constituency office recommended the group be provided through the Canada Summer Jobs program in 2018.
The CMAC did not immediately respond to a further request for comment.
An attorney representing Marouf previously drew a distinction between his client’s tweets about people he calls “Jewish white supremacists” and Jews in general, saying Marouf has no animosity toward the Jewish faith as a group. collective.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on August 30, 2022.