The FBI also questioned the American grandmother of Mr. Marouf’s partner about his application to remain in Canada as a permanent resident, Mr. Marouf told The Globe
over a series of tweets about “Jewish White Supremacists,” was barred from re-entering Canada from Syria in 2009 and interviewed by a Canadian intelligence official at the embassy in Damascus.
On Monday, the Commons Heritage committee will resume its inquiry into federal funding of the Community Media Advocacy Centre and Mr. Marouf, who is a consultant with CMAC. MPs plan to ask what checks were made between government agencies and departments to vet Mr. Marouf. After Mr. Marouf’s tweets emerged last summer deriding “Jewish White Supremacists,” francophones, and Black and Indigenous public figures, Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed HussenMr. Hussen pledged to improve the department’s vetting process to make sure it doesn’t fund groups espousing hatred.
He alleged that former Alberta premier Jason Kenney, who was federal citizenship and immigration minister at the time, had personally intervened to delay him from re-entering the country and gaining permanent residency. He said if the immigration authorities see “certain flags on a file or have security concerns” they might go to CSIS or partner agencies abroad but “none of that business goes to the minister of immigration.”
Mr. Marouf, who denies that he is antisemitic, was living in Canada on a Temporary Resident Permit, which can be issued by an immigration officer to people who do not meet the requirements for entering the country.
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