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Not surprisingly Bernier gets a resounding fail on every issue and is described in the guide as having “little concern for the plight of oppressed people around the world,” a supporter of individuals with blatantly Islamophobic and anti-Muslim views and engaged in policies that are “blatantly xenophobic, Islamophobic” and reinforce “white nationalism.”

NDP leader Singh gets a pass in every area except on religious freedom in Quebec and on the BDS movement.

Singh and the Green Party’s Elizabeth May are the only leaders to get a “needs improvement” on the latter issue — both for not clearly aligning with the BDS movement.

Trudeau received a fail for apparently claiming that supporting the BDS Movement is “anti-Semitic.”

“This rejection turns a blind eye to the suffering of Palestinians,” the report says, noting that the “Palestine-Israel conflict remains an important subject for Muslim communities in Canada.”

Conservative senator Linda Frum said as disturbing as it is to see academics using Jew-hatred as a “useful metric” on how to assess a political party, what is worse is that the Liberal government paid for this “hateful propaganda.

“This is a clear violation of parliamentary ethics, election law, not to mention simple decency,” she said Friday.

B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn called it “totally unacceptable” that government funds were used to promote an anti-Semitic movement in Canada.

“It is (also) deeply troubling that taxpayer dollars were used to subsidize a document ‘guiding’ Canadians on whom to support in an election,” he said.

Late Friday, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) issued a statement saying SSHRC has launched an investigation into what appears to be “an unapproved use of funds” allocated for a different purpose.

SLevy@postmedia.com