{"id":17055,"date":"2023-02-16T05:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T10:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=17055"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:41:24","slug":"chpc-reviews-funding-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=17055","title":{"rendered":"#CHPC reviews government funding of antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late January, I noted<\/a> that we have been waiting for months for Canada’s Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (CHPC) to follow-up on its October<\/a> resolution: “That the officials from the Department of Canadian Heritage that were responsible for the funding of Laith Marouf be invited to appear before committee regarding the federal funding provided to the Community Media Advocacy Centre by the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Department officials\u2019 handling of the situation”.<\/p>\n

That day of reckoning finally took place on Monday (February 13)<\/a>. You can watch the entire 90-minute meeting on ParlVU<\/a>. Using my November 1 blog post as a basis (What I Would Say At Heritage Committee<\/a>), I submitted a brief to members of the Committee which had been distributed to them a few months ago. It is available on the CHPC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Geist wrote a piece that I commend to you: “Apologies Without Accountability: Canadian Heritage Committee Seeks Answers on Government Funding an Anti-Semite”<\/a>. Marie Woolf continued her strong coverage of the Laith Marouf affair in the Globe and Mail in a story headlined “Ottawa hires debt collectors to get grant back from Laith Marouf employer”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

To those who are critical of the government hiring outside debt-collectors, I observed on Twitter that the point isn’t to get money into the government treasury; it is to get the government money out of the hands of antisemites.<\/p>\n

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The point of using debt-collectors isn't to get $100,000 back into government coffers. It is to get it out of an antisemite's bank account.<\/p>\n

Frankly, we shouldn't care if it costs tens of millions to claw back the money.<\/p>\n

Antisemites don't get to benefit from government funding. https:\/\/t.co\/ddle8wRilb<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mark Goldberg (@Mark_Goldberg) February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n