Does the Canadian Arab Federation have a 'right' to funding???
They're taking Jason Kenney to court. They sound like they consider their funding a right, rather than a privilege. The Canadian government can find lots of groups to conduct language training who don't share their political agenda.
The Canadian Arab Federation is taking Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to court over his decision to stop funding the group's language-training programs.
Kenney had threatened to pull $2 million in federal cash after the federation's president Khaled Mouammar called him "a professional whore" for his support for Israel.
On March 18, the federation was told by an associate deputy minister at Citizenship and Immigration that funding for its Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada program (LINC) would not be renewed, according to court documents filed Wednesday in Federal Court in Toronto.
The Toronto-based group was told "its funding for the LINC program would not be renewed because of objectionable nature of public statements made by CAF members," according to the application.
The decision erred in law by breaching an agreement to fund the LINC program and also breached the principle of fairness, the application alleges.
The federation is asking for an order quashing the decision and has also applied for an injunction to keep the funding coming while the case is heard.
posted by GayandRight @ 3:06 PM
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These turkeys seem to think the legal system works like the HRC ... perhaps they have forgotten that the loser pays the court costs !
They also seem to forget that in a legal challenge it will necessitate exposing a lot of facts about the CAC which will not help their cause.
... but so it goes with offended Muslim Islamists who seem to think it is right to be able to trash Canadian politicians and Canadian values yet still be entitled public funding!
Absolutely Brian, plus the govt can string them out and bleed them financially.Only a fool takes on the Federal govt without having a 100% chance at winning.
As a thought, how much of the govt's previous funding is going to support this insane challenge?
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