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Minister Bibeau, when announcing the $10-million gift, was careful to state that the Department will continue to exercise “’enhanced due diligence” with respect to UNRWA funding.

In a statement regarding this additional funding, Global Affairs Canada commented: “This assistance underlines how Canada and the (sic) UNRWA continue to work together to ensure respect for the values of the United Nations and the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, operational independence and impartiality.”

With the greatest respect, Ambassador, this is hogwash.

Ongoing anti-Jewish and Israeli incitement by UNRWA employees online is well-documented and was raised in my last letter to you. UNRWA curriculum continues to celebrate terrorist attacks against Israelis, as do the governmental authorities of the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza.

When I requested information in January from the Department of Global Affairs regarding the nature of the “enhanced due diligence measures” much ballyhooed by Minister Bibeau in her previous public statements on the topic, I was provided with nothing of any substance. Nothing.

Why is there such obfuscation? Why does Canada state that we implement effective and “enhanced” due diligence measures to oversee UNRWA spending of Canadian tax dollars when we all know that to be an utterly hollow representation?

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for saving the sick and orphaned and widowed and poor and diseased, but not if it means enriching Hamas and the Islamic State and Iran and the PA in the process, strengthening their power bases in every important respect.

As I asked you previously, Ambassador, why is Canada funding anti-Jewish and anti Israel curriculum and terror? Because, make no mistake — that is exactly what you are doing.