(This column originally appeared in the Toronto Sun)

It’s been four years since Canada was struck by two separate jihadist terrorist attacks against our Canadian Forces.

On October 20, 2014, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent was one of two men mowed down in a vehicle ramming attack in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. Vincent later died of his injuries.

His attacker fled the scene and a police chase ensued. He called 911 to say he’d carried out his attack in the name of “Allah.”

The terrorist crashed into a ditch, jumped out of his car and charged a female police officer with a large knife. He was quickly shot and killed by police.

Two days later, 24-year-old Corporal Nathan Cirillo was standing ceremonial guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

He was fatally shot in the back by a terrorist who then raised his gun in the air and shouted, “For Iraq!”

As Cirillo lay in a pool of blood, and half a dozen good Samaritans came to his aid, the terrorist made his way to the Parliament buildings.

He stormed an entrance of Centre Block, shot a brave security guard, and ran down a hallway before being shot and killed by Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers.

Both terrorists had pledged their support to the newly-formed Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), both deliberately targeted members of our military.

Just like that, Canada was thrust into the global jihadist insurgency.

Canadians were in shock, and the previous Harper government took steps to beef up our national security. They introduced new counter-terrorism measures, including greater information-sharing abilities between law enforcement agencies and a bill to strip citizenship from terrorists.

If you wage war against Canada, you’ve forfeited the privileges, rights and freedoms of Canadian citizenship.

One year later, however, Canadians elected a different kind of Prime Minister in Justin Trudeau.

When it comes to stripping citizenship from terrorists, Trudeau said that “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,” and that “terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship.”

He reversed the law, which effectively meant returning citizenship to a convicted terrorist and ring-leader of the thwarted Toronto 18 terrorist attack.

Trudeau issued an official apology and wrote a $10.5 million cheque to a convicted al-Qaeda terrorist.

And, according to reports from Stewart Bell at Global News, the government has quietly been trying to help ISIS terrorists come to Canada.

“We have the intention to help you,” a Canadian consular official told a captured British ISIS fighter. “Canada is an option”

Bell interviewed a captured Pakistani-born ISIS terrorist in Syria, who seems angry and resentful that Canada isn’t doing more to help him.

This man had celebrated the 2014 terrorist attacks in Ottawa and Quebec and called on his followers to wage more attacks against Canadians.

At the time, someone on Twitter asked him if he was Canadian. “Not anymore,” he wrote.

He’s apparently had a change of heart and wants to come crawling back.

If our government took national security and counter-terrorism seriously, these jihadists would have been stripped of their citizenship the moment they joined ISIS.

Canada wouldn’t even entertain the idea of helping them.

But under the Trudeau government, Canada’s approach to terrorism can best be described as pathological altruism.

Trudeau believes in protecting the rights and privileges of people who hate everything about…(READ MORE)

(This column originally appeared in the Toronto Sun)

The Trudeau government is funding an organization whose members include neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, and public figures who openly call for violence against Jews.

Last Friday, the government announced it would send $50 million of taxpayer money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an organization that is supposed to provide much-needed social services to Palestinian people.

Operating under the auspices of the United Nations, UNRWA has become a rogue agency. It fails to uphold basic UN principles, refuses oversight and due diligence over its spending, and continues its close and overlapping relationship with the Islamist terror group Hamas.

UNRWA has a well-documented and sordid history of supporting terrorism.

Since at least the early 2000s, UNRWA has used its operations as a cover for Palestinian militants, using UN ambulances to smuggle weapons to fighters and hosting terrorist meetings in UN buildings.

After a UN ambulance driver was caught carrying weapons and admitted to working for Hamas, UNRWA promised to change.

In 2014, however, UNRWA was once again caught aiding and facilitating Hamas terrorism. International journalists filmed Hamas terrorists launching rockets beside UN buildings and storing weapons in UNRWA buildings in Gaza.

Hamas is a banned terrorist group in Canada; its leaders incite violence against Jews, pay cash rewards to terrorists who kill Jews, and repeatedly rejects any peace proposal with Israel.

Hamas doesn’t merely stand in the way of peace, it actively engages in war and prolongs the conflict that keeps the Palestinian people living in misery.

Sadly, the problems with UNRWA run even deeper than its ties to Hamas.

As reported by the independent organization UN Watch, UNWRA staff members have been caught posting praise to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

“Despite its claims to neutrality, if you see their regular social media posts on Twitter and Facebook, it’s clear UNRWA has become the largest and most energetic anti-Israel agency,” said UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer.

“UN Watch research has exposed dozens and dozens of UNRWA teachers and staffers celebrating the terrorist kidnapping of Israeli teenagers, cheering rockets being fired at Israeli civilian centres, endorsing various forms of violence, erasing Israel from the map, praising Hitler and posting his photo, and posting overtly anti-Semitic videos, caricatures, and statements,” said Neuer.

UNRWA denies these accusations. But UN Watch released a report, Poisoning Palestinian Children, that provides evidence to back these claims.

“Hitler our beloved,” wrote one UNRWA teacher with a glorified photo of the Nazi leader. “Hitler the great,” wrote another.

A third UNRWA teacher posted a photo of Hitler with the quote: “I could have killed all the world’s Jews, but I left some so that the world would know why I killed them.” An UNWRA principal replied, “Should not have left any of them.”

Canada cut all funding to UNRWA under the previous Conservative government, but under Trudeau, Canada has reinstated its funding to the tune of least $75 million since 2016.

It appears that Trudeau is willing to overlook UNRWA’s grotesque behaviour and reinforce the standard that Palestinian leaders can get away with violence, terrorism and anti-Semitism.

If a group of people including neo-Nazis and anti-Semites were operating in Canada, Trudeau would not hesitate to condemn and chastise this organization, rightly so.

But thanks to Trudeau’s confused moral relativism and his government’s obsession with identity politics, Palestinian Islamists get a pass.

When it comes to funding Islamist extremists and jihadist terrorists, as we’ve seen time and time against, it seems there’s no group too…(READ MORE)

(This column originally appeared in the Toronto Sun)

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that political correctness has gone too far. A new study from the international organization More in Common showed a whopping 80% of people think that “political correctness is a problem.”

The study focuses on the U.S., but I’d wager the numbers are similar in Canada.

Every day there are stories in the news about social media mobs going after someone for saying the wrong thing, or demanding that someone lose their job or their platform for saying things that other people don’t like.

This has a chilling impact on freedom of speech. It impedes on our ability to think, to discuss new ideas, to work through problems, to rightfully criticize things we don’t like, and to try to make our society a better place.

I’ll give you two recent examples of political correctness run amok.

I heard on the radio the other day an activist encouraging listeners not to use the term “homeless” – which she thought was derogatory and unkind. Instead, this activist urged the audience to call homeless people our “outdoor neighbours.”

Another example was less amusing. Scott Kelly, an esteemed astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain took to Twitter to encourage Americans to come together and stop gloating over partisan victories.

He quoted the great Sir Winston Churchill, saying “in victory, magnanimity.”

The “woke” social justice warriors were having none of it, and Kelly became the target of an anti-free speech assault. Apparently, Churchill is no longer couth on the radical Left.

Kelly capitulated to the mob and posted the following statement. “Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support.”

Regardless of what ahistorical activists on social media may believe, Winston Churchill was the greatest leader of the 20^th Century. His courage and conviction in fighting the Nazis, through the darkest hours of the Second World War, demonstrates a kind of greatness that is rare and should be celebrated.

As Western Europe was crumbling and, one by one, democracies were surrendering to Nazi Germany, Churchill was thrust into power, frankly, because no one else wanted to lead Great Britain to sure defeat to the Nazis.

Churchill’s own political party thought it was a lost cause. Some wanted to negotiate a “peace” deal with Adolf Hitler.

But Churchill stayed the course. He knew the British people would rather go down fighting against fascism than join into an alliance with a Nazi tyrant.

Churchill led Great Britain and allied forces to eventual victory against Hitler and Nazi fascism. If it weren’t for him, our world would look very different today. His leadership ushered in an era of unprecedented peace, stability, prosperity and growth.

That’s not to say Churchill was a perfect man. Far from it. He drank like fish, spent like a drunken sailor and had a cigar hanging from his mouth around the clock.

His record in office prior to becoming PM was equally dismal. But that’s not why we celebrate Churchill. We celebrate him because of his courage and leadership during a few very dark years in the 1940s.

Churchill helped save freedom and democracy, and despite his many flaws, he should be revered.

Ironically, the far Left today – pushing an anti-Western agenda and insisting on censoring our history, our language and our discourse – are succeeding in uniting people.

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(This column originally appeared in the Toronto Sun)

A Canadian member of ISIS has been caught and captured by our Kurdish allies in Syria. With the collapse of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in early 2018, this ISIS soldier was trying to make his way back to Canada.

He wanted to join the 60-plus returned terrorists who have found a safe haven in Trudeau’s Canada, according to reports by Global News.

The latest terrorist to be captured was an outspoken supporter of the Islamic State. The Pakistani-born man left Canada in 2014 and then signed up to be an ISIS fighter, Global reports.

He became a sniper and a social media star. He used Twitter to encourage Westerners to join the Islamist death cult and to carry out terrorist attacks in the West.

He celebrated the Ottawa terror attack in October 2014, where Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was murdered while standing on ceremonial guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Parliament Hill.

Now, this ISIS thug is one of 13 Canadians being held by our allies in Syria, desperately hoping to return to Canada.

Canada must no doubt be a popular destination for captured ISIS terrorists. Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada is an outlier when it comes to dealing with ISIS terrorists who are now begging to return to the safety and comfort of the West.

France has an explicit policy to kill militants in Syria. The U.K., likewise, works with Iraqi forces to kill ISIS terrorists before they can leave the region.

An ISIS fighter who did manage to return to the U.K. was quickly sentenced and thrown in prison for 10 years for the crime of travelling to Syria to engage in terrorism.

The U.S. has already sentenced seven returned ISIS fighters to prison, while Australia’s policy is to strip ISIS members of their Australian citizenship.

Canada’s policy differs starkly from our Western allies.

Trudeau has passed legislation that allows convicted terrorists who are dual nationals to keep their Canadian citizenship. He doesn’t even use the term “terrorist” to describe these militants.

In a town hall earlier this year, Trudeau used an obscure euphemism to downplay the threat of ISIS fighters. He calls them “foreign travellers.”

Trudeau also believes that ISIS fighters have a “right” to return home, where they will face questioning and possible criminal charges.

The problem for Canadians is that our authorities haven’t figured out how to prosecute terrorists who carried out their atrocities in a failed state like Syria.

Hence why at least 60 known terrorists are now roaming around Canada. One returned terrorist openly boasted in a New York Times podcast about the atrocities he carried out for ISIS. He’s now back in Toronto, living with his parents and attending a taxpayer-funded university.

Canadian terrorists aren’t the only ones trying to get to Canada.

Jihadi Jack is a British-born and British-raised Muslim convert who joined ISIS in 2014. Three years later, he tried to return home to the U.K., to no avail. When that failed, he set his sights on Canada.

Jihadi Jack has a Canadian father and is now seeking to manipulate his connection to Canada in order to face softer treatment by the Trudeau government.

Canada continues to send a message of weakness when it comes to combating terrorism. It sends the message that we care more about protecting the charter rights of terrorists than delivering justice…(READ MORE)

Justin Trudeau promised Canadians that he will not indulge in “personal attacks” and will run a campaign based on “positive politics” in 2019.

Isn’t that rich? 

The Trudeau Liberals are the ones who’ve been mud-slinging for months.

Just see for yourself:

The Prime Minister lashed out a protestor and called her “intolerant” and “racist”. Why? Because she dared to question him about his handling of the illegal border crisis in Quebec. 

Conservative Leader, Andrew Scheer, questioned Justin Trudeau about returning ISIS fighters in Canada. Justin Trudeau accused Scheer of “Islamophobia” 

When the Ontario government grew tired of paying for the illegal border crisis caused by Trudeau’s open invitation to the world’s migrants, Ontario Immigration Minister Lisa Macleod confronted Trudeau’s Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hussen. Hussen’s response? He said it was “un-Canadian” to oppose open borders. 

In response to the Ontario government’s criticism of their handling of the illegal border crisis, Trudeau’s top advisor and Principle Secretary, Gerald Butts, accused those who oppose open borders of being part of the “alt-right“. 

When the world chastised Prime Minister Trudeau for using the term “peoplekind”, Gerald Butts accused those that made fun of the Prime Minister were “nazis“.  

When retired Conservative MP, Gerry Ritz, jokingly called Catherine McKenna, Trudeau’s Environment Minister, “climate barbie”, she screamed sexism and called him a sexist. Gerry Ritz apologized for his tweet. 

During a heated exchange in the Finance Committee between Conservative MP Lisa Raitt and Trudeau’s Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Morneau called Lisa Raitt a neanderthal. 

In a Twitter exchange between Maxime Bernier and Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes over issues of race and identity politics, Caesar-Chavannes told Bernier to “check your privilege and be quiet“. 

When NAFTA negotiations between the USA and Canada looked dire, Trudeau’s Foreign Affairs Minister actually compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler. 

(This article originally appeared in the Toronto Sun)

The opposition Conservatives are ringing the alarm bell following an exclusive Sun report revealing that Elections Canada sent a voter registration card to an asylum seeker who has only been in Canada for 18 months.

Concern over possible voter fraud continues in light of the Trudeau government’s plans to weaken voter integrity measures that could make it easier for non-citizens to vote in the 2019 federal election.

“Liberal election Bill C-76 will change the law so that voter registration cards are legal forms of voter ID once again,” said Conservative Sen. Linda Frum on Twitter.  

A potential voter would, under the proposed legislation, now be allowed to show the voter ID card as a piece of identification at the polls. Elections Canada has told the Sun that it would be up to the Chief Electoral Officer whether the voter ID card would be allowed as the sole piece of identification. The current CEO, according to Elections Canada, has indicated that would not be the case. But, under Bill C-76, such a change would not be against the law.

The Liberals’ Bill C-76 is an omnibus bill that, among other measures, seeks to reverse the previous government’s Fair Elections Act and undo the Conservative safeguards implemented to ensure greater integrity in our elections system.

Being able to vote with a simple Elections Canada card could allow countless non-citizens – including asylum seekers, illegal border crossers and those whose refugee applications have been rejected – to vote in the next election.

“This is incredibly concerning. As shadow minister for democratic institutions, I will work on Bill C-76 and beyond for the legitimacy of our electorate,” said Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie.

The Trudeau Liberals, meanwhile, insist that everything is under control. “Ensuring the integrity of our federal elections is a priority for our government,” said Nicky Cayer, a spokesman for Liberal Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould.

“That’s why we have introduced legislation that provides the commissioner of Canada Elections with new powers to help better enforce our election rules, including against those who vote when they are not entitled to,” she continued.

Elections Canada maintains that Canada has one of the strictest voter ID regimes in the world.

“Identification procedures at the local Elections Canada offices and polling places require that voters prove their identity and address, both when they register and when they vote,” said Natasha Gauthier, Elections Canada senior adviser and spokesman.

This specific measure touted by Elections Canada, however, would be undone if the Liberals were to pass Bill C-76.

And while Elections Canada claims their procedures are thorough, there are no measures in place to stop non-citizens who end up on voter registration lists from voting.

Voters are not required to show proof of citizenship, nor are they asked if they are a legal citizen entitled to vote.

If a person who is not on the registration list tries to register to vote on election day, “they must sign a declaration that they are a Canadian citizen,” Gauthier explains. Proof of citizenship, though, such as a passport or a citizenship certificate, is not required.

If the Liberals were to pass Bill C-76, potential voters could no longer be required to show any ID to vote whatsoever. They would only be required to show an Elections Canada voter identification card as a form of ID. 

As reported by the Sun, voter registration cards are being sent to asylum seekers with no permanent status in Canada. Elections Canada assures the Sun that these cards cannot be used to vote and are simply cards that encourage recipients to register to vote. 

During the registration process, a recipient is asked “Are you a Canadian citizen.” Answering falsely is federal offense under the Canada Elections Act. 

According to Mexican asylum seekers Jacqueline and her husband, who spoke exclusively to the Sun, the phenomenon of non-citizens being invited to register to vote is widespread.

“They’re doing this with a lot of immigrants because I have a few friends that are on a work permit and they also received a vote registration card,” they said.

Correction: an earlier version of this story confused the voter registration card, which invites people to register to vote, with a voter ID card, which is sent to all registered voters prior to the election. We apologize for this error.

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(This article originally appeared in the Toronto Sun)

An asylum seeker who has only been in Canada for 18 months was sent a voter registration card from Elections Canada, the Sun has learned.

The letter, dated Sept. 12, 2018 and addressed to Jacqueline, a woman who arrived in Canada in the spring of 2017, informs her that she is “not currently registered to vote in federal elections.”

The letter urges her to register by Oct. 23, 2018, stating that, “registering in advance will ensure you’re on the voters list and will save you time at the polls.”

It is not clear how Jacqueline ended up on an Elections Canada list. The Sun has chosen not to identify Jacqueline’s last name as her refugee case is pending and public identification can put the outcome of such cases at risk. Her and her husband are asylum seekers from Mexico, and have not yet received permanent immigration status in Canada.

Jacqueline’s husband said he was threatened and assaulted by members of a drug cartel, including a police officer. The Sun has chosen not to name him due to his pending refugee status and claims of threats to his life.

The couple fled to Canada and ended up in Western Canada, where the husband applied for a temporary work permit and has found a job working in the oil industry.

The couple’s refugee application is still pending; their case has yet to be presented to an Immigration and Refugee Board judge. If their application is accepted, they will become permanent residents and will have to wait at least three years before they can apply for Canadian citizenship, making them eligible to vote.

And yet, somehow, the woman ended up on a federal Elections Canada registration list.

“I don’t know where they got her information to begin with, but they sent her a registration card,” said Jacqueline’s husband, who was interviewed because his wife still struggles with English.

“She’s taking ESL classes, we haven’t even been in the country a year and a half, and the Liberals are sending a vote registration card,” he said.

According to the husband, this isn’t an isolated incident. “They’re doing this with a lot of immigrants, because I have a few friends that are on a work permit and they also received a vote registration card.”

That’s part of the reason he came forward to blow the whistle on possible voter fraud. Having escaped Mexico, a deeply corrupt country that struggles with the rule of law, he doesn’t want to see Canada go in that direction.

“I want to give something back to Canada. Canada has done so much for us, and we don’t want to see Canada go in that direction. That’s not fair to Canadians,” he said.

A spokesperson for Elections Canada told the Sun that they compile voter registration lists from a number of sources, including the Canada Revenue Agency, driver’s license agencies, provincial voter lists, and the federal immigration department.

Jacqueline’s husband confirmed that she does not have a job in Canada, nor does she have a driver’s license. She has never registered to vote in Canada.

Elections Canada noted that sometimes, mistakes are made.

“From time to time, a non-citizen may inadvertently be included in the register and may therefore receive a voter information card in error. In the rare case that a non-citizen gets a voter information card, we ask that they call their local Elections Canada office and ask to be removed from the National Register of Electors,” said Natasha Gauthier of Elections Canada.

“It is not illegal for a non-citizen to be on the register in error.”

“It is an offence under the Canada Elections Act for a non-citizen to vote, or to apply to register to vote, knowing they are not qualified to do so,” said Gauthier.

When asked about its budget for countering election fraud, Elections Canada could not say how…(READ MORE)

An asylum seeker who has only been in Canada for 18 months was sent a voter registration card from Elections Canada, the Sun has learned.

The letter, dated Sept. 12, 2018 and addressed to Jacqueline, a woman who arrived in Canada in the spring of 2017, informs her that she is “not currently registered to vote in federal elections.”

The letter urges her to register by Oct. 23, 2018, stating that, “registering in advance will ensure you’re on the voters list and will save you time at the polls.”

It is not clear how Jacqueline ended up on an Elections Canada list. The Sun has chosen not to identify Jacqueline’s last name as her refugee case is pending and public identification can put the outcome of such cases at risk. Her and her husband are asylum seekers from Mexico, and have not yet received permanent immigration status in Canada.

Jacqueline’s husband said he was threatened and assaulted by members of a drug cartel, including a police officer. The Sun has chosen not to name him due to his pending refugee status and claims of threats to his life.

The couple fled to Canada and ended up in Western Canada, where the husband applied for a temporary work permit and has found a job working in the oil industry.

The couple’s refugee application is still pending; their case has yet to be presented to an Immigration and Refugee Board judge. If their application is accepted, they will become permanent residents and will have to wait at least three years before they can apply for Canadian citizenship, making them eligible to vote.

And yet, somehow, the woman ended up on a federal Elections Canada registration list.

“I don’t know where they got her information to begin with, but they sent her a registration card,” said Jacqueline’s husband, who was interviewed because his wife still struggles with English.

“She’s taking ESL classes, we haven’t even been in the country a year and a half, and the Liberals are sending a vote registration card,” he said.

According to the husband, this isn’t an isolated incident. “They’re doing this with a lot of immigrants, because I have a few friends that are on a work permit and they also received a vote registration card.”

That’s part of the reason he came forward to blow the whistle on possible voter fraud. Having escaped Mexico, a deeply corrupt country that struggles with the rule of law, he doesn’t want to see Canada go in that direction.

“I want to give something back to Canada. Canada has done so much for us, and we don’t want to see Canada go in that direction. That’s not fair to Canadians,” he said.

A spokesperson for Elections Canada told the Sun that they compile voter registration lists from a number of sources, including the Canada Revenue Agency, driver’s license agencies, provincial voter lists, and the federal immigration department.

Jacqueline’s husband confirmed that she does not have a job in Canada, nor does she have a driver’s license. She has never registered to vote in Canada.

Elections Canada noted that sometimes, mistakes are made.

“From time to time, a non-citizen may inadvertently be included in the register and may therefore receive a voter information card in error. In the rare case that a non-citizen gets a voter information card, we ask that they call their local Elections Canada office and ask to be removed from the National Register of Electors,” said Natasha Gauthier of Elections Canada.

“It is not illegal for a non-citizen to be on the register in error.”

“It is an offence under the Canada Elections Act for a non-citizen to vote, or to apply to register to vote, knowing they are not qualified to do so,” said Gauthier.

When asked about its budget for countering election fraud, Elections Canada could not say how much is spent on ensuring electoral integrity.

(This article originally appeared in the Toronto Sun)

The Islamic Society of North America — Canada (ISNA-Canada) was fined and its charity status suspended last month after an audit by the Canada Revenue Agency raised concerns over financial links to armed militias and terrorists in Pakistan.

As reported by investigative journalist Stewart Bell of Global News, the feds suspended the Mississauga-based group’s charity status for one year and fined the group half a million dollars.

CRA auditors revealed ISNA-Canada was working as a “conduit” by using its charitable status in Canada to raise money that “may have knowingly or unknowingly” been used to “support the efforts of a political party and its armed wing Hizbul Mujahideen.”

The political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, is a far-right, conservative Islamist organization that seeks to impose Sharia Law, further reduce rights for women, gays and minorities, and to transform Pakistan into an Islamic State.

Its armed wing, Hizbul Mujahideen, has been listed as a banned terrorist group by our allies in India, the European Union and the United States.

The CRA audit found that ISNA-Canada “failed to conduct any meaningful due diligence” when it sent $136,000 to an aid organization directly linked to Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists.

According to Bell, ISNA-Canada denied any links to terrorism and the organization said it has since made changes to its governance structure.

The feds are allowing this organization to remain active in Canada, and even to maintain charitable tax status. ISNA-Canada was required to shut down its overseas operations and will be prohibited from issuing tax receipts to donors for one year – a slap on the wrist for one of Canada’s largest Muslim organizations.

Despite its reckless past, ISNA-Canada was the recipient of a taxpayer-funded grant. According to a government disclosure database, the Mississauga-based ISNA-Canada was awarded a Canada Summer Jobs grant in 2018.

This long-running grant program became controversial this year when the Trudeau Liberals politicized it to punish those with traditional and Christian values. The Liberals brought in an “attestation” that required groups to pledge support to Trudeau’s progressive values while prohibiting pro-life and many Christian organizations from being eligible.

It is particularly worrisome that ISNA-Canada received this grant given the timeline of the CRA investigation.

The CRA audit took place in 2011 and looked back at the organization’s financial activities from 2007 to 2009. ISNA-Canada was informed of the CRA’s findings in 2014, and yet, the CRA only moved forward with sanctions last month, on Sept. 5, 2018.

ISNA-Canada did not respond to questions from the Sun about whether they disclosed the CRA’s findings when they applied for a taxpayer-funded grant from the Trudeau government.

Politicians of all stripes, including the prime minister, have not shied away from attending events with ISNA-Canada – despite concerns its fundraising activities may have aided a foreign political party and its armed wing.

Trudeau spoke at an ISNA-Canada event in 2013, and Publicly Safety Minister Ralph Goodale was at an ISNA-Canada roundtable in April of this year.

ISNA-Canada’s Facebook page also shows event photos with Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, Liberal MPs Iqra Khalid and Omar Alghabra, and Ontario PC MPP…(READ MORE)