HAS TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR THE PERNICIOUS CANADIAN ANTI-HATE NETWORK CAHN) RUN OUT?
Canadian ‘anti-hate’ group targeting Christians runs out of federal funding
The far-left Canadian Anti-Hate Network is out of federal grants for the first time in years, though the Liberal Carney government recently named its leader to an ‘expert advisory group.’
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Thu May 21, 2026 – 2:38 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian so-called “anti-hate network” is allegedly out of federal funding for the first time in six years, following complaints by pro-life MPs and groups that it exhibited anti-Catholic bias and spread “polarization.”
As noted by Blacklock’s Reporter, the activist group known as the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) is out of grants from Canada’s Heritage Department, following multiple complaints of “bias and anti-Catholic messages,” which say that it was “spurring greater polarization.”
According to Access To Information records, CAHN, which gets hundreds of thousands in taxpayer funding each year, saw its funding cut after it was questioned by MPs, notably, pro-life Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Rachael Thomas, about its bias in going after Catholics.
“We have an active multi-year agreement where the three years have been paid so far, leaving only a small amount still on hold pending final reports. Allegations are about spreading hate regarding religion and beliefs and further polarization,” reads a Heritage Department memo from 2025.
Thomas has many times called out the Liberal government’s funding of CAHN for years, notably after the group celebrated the killing of Charlie Kirk.
CAHN has a history of going after both Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) and LifeSiteNews, with “misinformation” that it has previously been forced to retract.
CLC welcomed the news that CAHN is out of funding for the first time in six years.
“This is welcome news. For years, Canadians have been forced to subsidize an activist organization that has helped fuel suspicion and hostility toward Christians, pro-lifers, and other peaceful citizens,” wrote CLC in an X post.
“Defunding CAHN is a step in the right direction. Now Canadians deserve full transparency about why the Liberal Government funded CAHN in the first place.”
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CLC’s Communications Director Pete Baklinski recently noted, in a Western Standard report, that “Canada does not need taxpayer-funded blacklist politics” from groups like CAHN.
“It does not need government-backed ideological policing. And it certainly does not need public money flowing to organizations whose materials portray Christian, pro-life advocates, who are law-abiding citizens, as part of the ‘far right.’”
In an X post, Baklinski noted how CAHN “targeted” CLC for the “work we do defending preborn babies.”
“The organization claims to combat hate, but in our experience, it directed toward us the very thing it claims to oppose,” he noted.
“Organizations that target peaceful Christian citizens for exercising their democratic rights in defence of life should never receive one cent of taxpayer money.”
Despite federal funding appearing to be cut to it for now, as reported by LifeSiteNews, the leader of CAHN, Bernie Farber, was recently named to the government’s “Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety.”
Years ago, Farber made media headlines for falsely posting a photo on X of an anti-Semitic flyer that he claimed was found “in plain sight” during Ottawa’s Freedom Convoy.
Despite this, Farber was appointed to the original 2022 “expert advisory group on online safety” by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
CAHN has been known to work with the notorious, far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the United States and received money from the Canadian government in 2020 as part of an “inclusion” grant.