A Toronto-area organization that was suspended by charities regulators and fined $550,000 over concerns it may have funded armed militants in Pakistan has been awarded a federal summer jobs grant.
Employment Minister Patricia Hajdu was responding to a question from the Conservative critic for the program, John Barlow, who said 1,500 community groups had been denied summer jobs funding and asked whether the prime minister would revoke the grant.
“Under your ministry, summer camps for children and faith-based charities have been deprived of summer job funding for not passing your government’s ‘values test,'” Barlow wrote in a subsequent letter to the minister. “Meanwhile, a suspended organization with possible links to terrorism has received a substantial federal grant.”
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