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.
“Pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition is weighing its legal response after being labelled a ‘far right Christian nationalist group’ by a federally-subsidized anti-fascist network.”
August 15th, 2024:“Pro-life advocacy organization Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) is weighing its legal response after being publicly labelled a ‘far right Christian nationalist group’ by a federally-subsidized anti-fascist network.”
Can it be said that, as with beauty, “hate is in the eye of the beholder?” Can the observation be realistically applied to PM Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government’s dictum regarding the state of race-relations in Canada?
The annual National March for Life is organized by the Campaign Life Coalition, a leading pro-life and pro-family organization in Canada.
“The event is the most prominent forum for pro-life Canadians to demand justice for the 100,000 childrenwho are killed in their mothers’ wombs each year by abortion. Currently, Canada is the only Western nation with zero legal protection for the pre-born, meaning abortion is permitted for any reason or no reason whatsoever, up till the moment of birth.”
And this constitutes “far-right” status for a Canadian not-for-profit organization? Do tell, fellow patriots– how does an advancement of sanctity-of-life equate with far-right political advocacy?
What would transpire if a group of Canadians turned this around to state that “pro-death” special interest groups are far more “far-right” than the anti-abortionists? Any thinking Canadian will know what the outcome would be: nothing at all, as the effort would be transformed into chopped-liver by mainstream media.
“There are potential repercussions from a label like this,” said Pete Baklinski, communications director for Campaign Life Coalition. “It’s not something we take lightly. We’re going to fight this. We’re going to pursue what legal options we can.”
For years now, Cultural Action Party [est.2016] has proclaimed that— in emulation of so-called “multicultural” organizations— Christians of Canada must unite in political solidarity. To remain passive is to submit to full societal marginalization at the hands of our quasi-communist Liberal government.
We pick up on related dynamic. Just as the “anti-hate” haters brand political solidarity among white Canadians racism, these same types now brand Christian organizations “far-right.”
What does the commonality tell us? For one thing, what mainstream media wouldn’t suggest for all the white rice in China: Canada has been systemically transitioned to an anti-Anglophone, anti-Christian society.
The ball began rolling back in the year 1968. Upon the advent of Pierre Trudeau as prime minister, a slow-and-steady wave of anti-Canadian sentiment began to flow through the veins of society. Some forty-years later, current PM Justin Trudeau injected the phenomenon throughout Canada’s entire body politic.
Thus, the current condition of Canada, in which non-militant anti-abortionist groups fall into a flaming pit of government and media demonization.
In a recently published handbook, 40 Ways to Fight the Far-Right, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) blacklists both CLC and the Catholic media LifeSiteNews as ‘far right’ and “Christian nationalist” groups.
“CAHN enjoys access to the ears of Ottawa officials, and over the past two years has received federal government funding totalling $640,000. At the end of 2023, CAHN received a two-year $440,000 grant from Heritage Canada for a project called Informing, Connecting, and Encouraging Anti-Hate Activities in Canada.”
Upon which they turn around and brand Christianity racist, bigoted and hateful. We stand witness as the Trudeau government empower a crew of non-elected activists as arbiters of race-relations. They’re an arrogant bunch, firmly entrenched in the idea that their subjective view of society exists as a final truth.
Six private citizens sit on the board of CAHN. A smug, arrogant lot they are. A key organizational goal comes as no surprise– censorship of the internet in neo-authoritarian fashion:
“Hate online has become the communications of choice for extremist murderers to choose their minority victims from twisted ideologies consumed online…. So now with Bill C-63 we have more tools in our legal tool chest to hopefully prevent such radicalization and grief in the future.”
As funded by the Liberals through Canadian tax-payer dollars, anti-racism activists advocate for the erosion of freedom of speech. Never do these types take into account that related social consternation is rooted in “too much too fast” immigration policies advanced by government. It’s basic common sense, eschewed for the benefit of a woke “witch hunt” directed at average Canadians.
We witness the hypocrisy inherent in the situation. Is the term “extremist murderers” reflective of the zeitgeist of contemporary Canadian society? After all, an objective thinker might believe that knocking off 80,000-90,000 unborn fetuses each year is a far superior example of “extremist murders.”
“The Canadian Anti Hate Network usually goes after us for being pro-marriage and pro-life.To suddenly list us as a Christian nationalist group? That was surprising.”
Upon which CAP interjet with this tid-bit. According to the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels believed that the “monogamous nuclear family emerged from capitalism. According to Engels, the nuclear family promotes inter-generational inequality.”
Let us understand the situation within a larger social context. It makes not a shred of difference whether anti-racism advocates “make sense,” adhere to logic, or justify their ideological beliefs.
In this is witnessed a major irony. While advancing themselves as “keepers of the peace,” this ilk have far more in common with communism than they do adherence to democratic principles. No wonder Justin Trudeau pumps them up with federal government funding. The same principle is true of the Feds themselves.
“The government is funding an organization that is doing the very thing it’s trying to campaign against.”
Absolutely, to which CAP add a corollary: this dynamic exists as a fundamental of Marxist ideology. As a successful fascist of the 20th century once stated, “accuse your enemy of that which you indulge in.”
In this we see the true orientation of the “anti-racism” movement. Campaign Life Coalition:
“The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is spreading division amongst Canadians. By trying to shut down groups, attempting to remove them from the public square, you are doing the very thing that you’re supposed to be campaigning against.”
“Divide and rule policy, or ‘divide and conquer,’ in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power divisively. This includes the exploitation of existing divisions within a political group, and the deliberate creation or strengthening of such divisions.”
“In politics, the concept refers to a strategy that prevents smaller power groups from linking up, causing rivalries and fomenting discordamong the people to prevent a rebellion against the elites.”
The Liberals and their anti-hate campaigns exist as a post-modern manifestation of totalitarianism. Utilizing immigration as a “thorn in the side” of society, Team Trudeau are leveraging the impact to transition Canada to a ersatz socialist dictatorship.
All those who stand in opposition are to be systemically demonized– another tactic lifted from fascist and communist revolutions of the 20th century. Peel away the propaganda, and a salient truth is revealed.
In various forms, these patterns are fundamental to socio-political transformation. The Communist Revolution of 1917 in the Soviet Union; Chairman Mao Tse Tung’s Silent Revolution of the 1950’s in China.
In Justin Trudeau’s Canada, “wolves in sheep’s clothing” are in full control. In 2024, it includes neo-communist attempts to control not only what we do, but also what we think.
With an unspoken-of cabal of woke bureaucrats at their disposal, the death of democracy lies in wait.
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