The organizations are now reviewing Birju Dattani under his alias Mujahid Dattani, which was the name he used while he was a graduate student in Britain
Birju Dattani was appointed as the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission by the Justice Minister. The Prime Minister’s Office was also involved in the appointment process before it went to cabinet for approval.
But the Privy Council Office , which is responsible for background checks on government appointments to senior positions, says it failed to pass on Mr. Dattani’s alias for security checks to CSIS, the RCMP and the Canada Revenue Agency, whichThe PCO also did not search under Mr. Dattani’s aliases using open sources on the internet, before he was appointed. The PCO “regrets its error,” Daniel Savoie, a PCO spokesman, said in a statement Monday.
“The aliases were also not reviewed nor shared with security partners who conduct background checks,” Mr. Savoie added. “After this oversight was discovered, PCO shared the aliases with its security partners who are now completing necessary reviews.” Mr. Khan’s writings were found among Osama bin Laden’s papers by American forces in their 2011 raid on his Pakistani compound, according to the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Mr. Dattani told The Globe he was unaware he would be sharing a platform with Mr. Khan.
Among the deleted material is a Facebook post about a talk Mr. Dattani gave as a graduate student in London on the “war on terrorism and Islamophobia.” He delivered a lecture on the same subject in Turkey in 2014. Nicholas Marcus Thompson, executive director of the Black Class Action Secretariat, said “it appears the government is trying to scapegoat Mr. Dattani for political reasons.”
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