The Canadian Revenue Agency’s Review and Analysis Division is “responsible for delivering the Agency’s mandate under the Anti-Terrorism Act to prevent the abuse of registered charities for the financing of terrorism.” However, in the past few years, Muslim charities have raised concerns about the Division’s audits and revocations by the CRA.
Two years after hundreds of refugees were left sleeping on Toronto city streets, funding for the Interim Housing Assistance Program has been reduced by the federal government. However, while funding has been reduced, so has the number of asylum claims. It's obvious a multi-pronged solution is needed.
With 2025 being the ten-year anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations, there is likely to be a renewed focus on the lasting impacts of colonization in Canada. Research suggests that the Government has still not met many of its commitments to Indigenous communities, leaving Indigenous-serving charities and non-profits to fill the gap.
Front-line aid workers facing the same starvation and violence as their fellow Palestinians, even as they work to serve them, say humanitarian organizations. But there is still time to save lives.
