The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group says a secretive division of the Canada Revenue Agency is unfairly targeting Muslim charities for audits based on flimsy reasoning, amounting to discrimination.
OTTAWA -- A national civil liberties coalition says a secretive division of the Canada Revenue Agency is unfairly targeting Muslim charities for audits based on flimsy reasoning, amounting to discrimination.
It says that despite these revocations, not a single Muslim charitable organization, or individual associated with one, has been charged with a terrorist financing crime. If non-compliance is identified as a result of an audit, the agency generally provides a charity with an opportunity to correct the issues, it said.
The report distinguishes between these audits and those specifically selected by Review and Analysis Division due to terrorist financing concerns. The civil liberties group says the process of an audit, and possible revocation, has also created a chilling effect that is undermining and harming the Muslim charitable sector in Canada.
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