Laith Marouf tweeted a series of offensive antisemitic messages, spurring the federal government to cut funding to the initiative
Canada’s federal government has cut funding to an anti-racism initiative after one of the program’s main consultants was found to have written a series of “reprehensible and vile” tweets.
The minister of diversity, Ahmed Hussen, said on Monday that his department had cut funding to Montreal-based Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), which had received more than C$133,000 (US$103,000) in funding from the heritage department to develop a project on combating racism in broadcasting.
