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The documents also show the consulate is still imposing a 2% income tax on Eritrean-Canadians — a practice Ottawa had also insisted had to end after the RCMP and UN reported that those who refused to pay were subjected to threats, intimidation and coercion.

“We take these allegations very seriously, and are currently working to determine if the Eritrean consulate is continuing to disregard Canadian law,” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird’s press secretary, Rick Roth, said Tuesday.

“We have clearly communicated to the Eritrean government our concerns both in Ottawa, and Eritrea. We expect the Eritrean government not to test our resolve. These actions, if true, will have repercussions.”

The Eritrean-Canadian Human Rights Group of Canada, which shared the consulate forms with the National Post and Foreign Affairs, said it wants the government to close the consulate, Eritrea’s only remaining outpost in Canada.

“They’re thumbing their noses at the Canadian government,” said David Matas, the group’s senior legal counsel. “The government of Canada has given them a warning. They’re still doing it. They should shut down the consulate.”

The investigation into the consulate’s fundraising activities is the latest chapter in a diplomatic dispute that has been simmering between Canada and Eritrea, one of the world’s most repressive and impoverished states.

Since winning independence 20 years ago this week following a war with Ethiopia, Eritrea has failed to develop a formal economy and remains dependent on “diaspora taxes” imposed on the large number of expatriates who have fled the country.