Brian Lilley
Toronto Sun, Aug. 21, 2022
“…earlier this year, educators in Ontario were warning parents about the triggering aspects of being offered a free Canadian flag.”
Should we be outraged that the Trudeau government hired someone who has said vile things about Jews, French-speaking people, and Black Americans — to name a few — to teach broadcasters not to be racist? Absolutely, but we shouldn’t be shocked.
This isn’t an attempt to claim the Trudeau Liberals are racist. I don’t believe that at all. It’s because the whole business of anti-racism training — which this man and his firm were hired for — is proving time and again to be a sham.
This time, it’s the hiring of Laith Marouf and his non-profit Community Media Advocacy Centre to run a program for the government called, Building an Anti-Racism Strategy for Canadian Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence. My colleagues Jamil Jivani and Lorrie Goldstein have already explained in great detail how racist Marouf’s past statements have been — though he denies racist things are racist.
Ahmed Hussen, Trudeau’s minister for housing, diversity and inclusion, issued a statement Sunday morning against Marouf’s comments but didn’t say he or his organization were being fired from this role.
“The reprehensible and vile comments made by this individual go against everything our government, and our country, stand for,” Hussen said.
That’s good considering that while he was hosting workshops in Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax on ending racism in Canadian media, he was calling “Jewish White Supremists” “bags of human feces,” said that French is an ugly language; and that “Frogs have much less IQ.” He once called Colin Powell the “Jamaican house slave of the Empire.” (Source)