The Department of Canadian Heritage says it conducted a “comprehensive assessment” prior to awarding a contract to a now-defunded firm that employed a consultant later found to have posted numerous antisemitic remarks online.
Montreal-based consultancy firm Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) was approved for funding “following a comprehensive assessment including both regional and national committees,” wrote Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s department in a briefing note obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The subsidy “should never have been approved,” the note said, adding that grant applicants will now be required to swear an oath that they are not antisemitic.
CMAC received a federal grant of over $130,000 in 2021 for an anti-racism project, but the funding was pulled in August 2022 shortly after past Twitter posts by Laith Marouf, one of the firm’s senior consultants, were found in which he referred to Jewish people as “white supremacists” and “bags of human feces.”…