Gender identity, climate change and anti-Israel causes all generously subsidized by federal money

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This week, the National Post’s Terry Newman covered how a $100,000 federal grant intended to fight antisemitism was instead given to an anti-Israel activist group.

The group Toronto Palestinian Families was given $99,500 for a program they pitched as “combating anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian racism for all 2024.” But as Newman documented, Toronto Palestinian Families has a history of vocal anti-Zionist advocacy. They’ve even used their social media to share content from Palestinian Youth Movement, a group that openly celebrated the October 7 attacks on Canadian streets while they were still unfolding.

It’s a window into the vast archipelago of government grant money ending up each year in the hands of full-time activists. And it’s an archipelago that’s expanded dramatically under the Liberals, with whole new categories of government grants earmarked for everything from “gender equity” to “climate action” to “anti-racism.”

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Here are three examples of just how much activism is being footed by the Canadian taxpayer. And these are just a cursory sample. Key an activist buzzword into the official Government of Canada database of grant recipients, and it will yield dozens of others.

Canada’s leading trans advocacy group is mostly government funded

Egale Canada was founded in 1986 as a charity pushing for equal rights for gays and lesbians, and claims the title as Canada’s “leading organization for 2SLGBTQI people and issues.”

Of late, it’s been at the forefront of defending the frontiers of gender identity. This has been most visible in Egale’s vocal opposition to new Alberta laws barring males from women’s sports, or banning the prescription of puberty-blockers to minors. Egale lawyers are in court to sink both policies.

And somewhere along the way, Egale Canada’s budget has become majority dependent on government.

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