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"I said the contract had to be cancelled. I alerted him and I persistently communicated with the minister in his office, from the day I learned about it, until today, and aggressively demanded that action be taken."

"Action could have been taken more quickly."

"[I am] very pleased that the minister and his office had been collaborative with me, but I believe that the action should have been taken more swiftly."

"[There needs to be a] thorough review in the Department of Heritage as to how this happened [and processes need to be in place to make certain it doesn't re-occur]."

"I think we all want to understand how, when it was relatively simple to Google what Mr. Marouf has said over the last 20 years that was insulting not only to Jews, but to other groups like French Canadians, how the department awarded a contract to a group that is so closely tied to Mr. Marouf and his partner."

"His name was listed as one of the people providing the training at the first few training sessions. Nobody noticed this."

Liberal Member of Parliament, Anthony Housefather

"There is a Canadian Ministry of Heritage that is not accepting accountability despite a vetting process that just wasn't there."

"The key question is, what is the vetting process? How does a guy like this get through?"

"[It's] important for the Heritage committee to get some answers."

Conservative Member of Parliament Melissa Lantsman 

Laith Marouf outside the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in a photo he posted to social media while employed as a Government of Canada “anti-racism” coordinator. In an accompanying caption, Marouf expresses his wish that the memorial (which contains the names of more than 7,000 Black soldiers killed in the conflict) should contain “millions” more names. Photo by Twitter

 

The 'guy' in question over this clumsy, inept mess that saw a Syrian-Palestinian 'activist' whose main purpose in life appears to be the vilification of Israel as an Apartheid oppressor of Palestinians, and whose contempt for Jews and 'Zionist scum' leads him to repeatedly in public forums state his willingness to shoot Jews in the head, slandering them as sub-human, straight out of a Goebbels propaganda manual, found Canada's Heritage Ministry hiring a committed racist as an authoritative speaker on behalf of a government-supported program on anti-racism, spout hatred and divisiveness instead.

Equality and Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen oversaw a contract between Heritage Canada and the Community Media Advocacy group, whose senior consultant was a well-known racist, to design an anti-racism strategy for the broadcasting sector. The Canadian Press reported a week ago on tweets emanating from that senior consultant, Laith Marouf. After which Minister Hussen stated he requested that Canadian Heritage "look closely at the situation involving disturbing comments made by the individual in question." The follow-up a day later was a formal announcement that funding would be cut to CMAC.

Now a prominent member of Parliament has come forward to reveal that he contacted the minister even before the news was widely reported in the media. In April a press release  from CMAC touted the launch of consultations on building an anti-racism strategy for the Canadian broadcasting sector. "In Canada, diversity is a fact, but inclusion is a choice. Our government is proud to contribute to the initiative", Ahmed Hussein stated in a news release. In point of fact, the Community Media Advocacy Centre is comprised of only two individuals; Marouf and his wife. A little factoid the minister was unaware of when he stated he planned to ask CMAC how they came to hire a racist.

"Mr. Minister: You are taking us for fools. You are calling on CMAC to answer ‘how they came to hire Laith Marouf’?"

"Are you not aware that he and his wife Gretchen King are CMAC? That they and CMAC share the same address?"

"That it was you and Marouf who announced this program?"

 UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer

"I have a motto: Life is too short for shoes with laces, or for entertaining Jewish White Supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head."

"You know all those loud-mouthed bags of human feces, AKA the Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they come from, they will return to being low-voiced b*****s of their Christian/secular white supremacist masters."

Laith Marouf