A petition presented in the House of Commons is calling on Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to provide a list of the individuals involved in approving a government grant to a group with ties to consultant Laith Marouf. Funding to the group was pulled after Marouf was found to have made anti-Semitic comments on Twitter over several years.
“Only a public inquiry with compulsory document production and evidence taken under oath can satisfy the Canadian public as to who in the government knew about the consultant’s history of racism and hatred and why they failed to act promptly and decisively,” read the petition, which was sponsored by Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman and also endorsed by the Canadian Anti-Semitism Education Foundation, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter….