Ottawa may halt grants to 'anti-Semitic' groups
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by Joseph Brean
National Post
March 19, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1506/ottawa-may-halt-grants-to-anti-semitic-groups

Excerpt:

As part of a "zero tolerance approach towards anti-Semitism," the federal government is reviewing all its public service grants to remove state support from groups that advocate hatred or express support for terrorism.

"We are just at the beginning of the process of trying to formalize and operationalize that principle. In my department, we will be engaged in a cross-government process," Jason Kenney, the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, told an audience yesterday at the University of Toronto, co-hosted by the campus Hillel and Conservative Party clubs.

He said Ottawa is looking to Britain as an example, citing the "really robust" community outreach programs that were developed in the Home Office after the London Underground bombings of 2005.

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