Canadian Heritage committee Madam Chair, I was not part of that initial review, but my understanding is that there was nothing wrong with the project proposal. It was merely that there were, as you said, 1,100 applications, and only 85 could be accepted. There was nothing deficient, but it wasn't at the top.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee It was from the minister's chief of staff.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Madam Chair, the time that it took was really to obtain the facts and review—
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee It was a phone call.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. Organizations are responsible for their communications. In this case, we were relying on the initial vetting, so there was no additional vetting done—
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Madam Chair, we relied on the initial vetting that had been done.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee We are looking at how we can ensure that we, systematically, over the course of the projects that are approved, at such key moments as press releases, do additional screening before that happens. Yes.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Yes, we can provide those documents to the committee. There was training done in October for all program advisers with respect to both the way in which the criteria are to be implemented and the training on anti-Semitism and anti-racism.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee It was July 26.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Madam Chair, I don't remember for sure. I don't want to mislead the committee. I don't recall. He described that there was an issue. He said that we needed to look into it. I don't believe—
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Madam Chair, yes, on August 2, I received an email with one of the offensive tweets. That was when we started to look into it.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Madam Chair, that's right.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Madam Chair, I understand the question. What I can say is that I agree that it could have been shorter. I think that, as a result of this experience, we have made changes through the system—
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee The initial call for proposals was on September 3, 2019, and I believe it closed in January 2020.
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna
Canadian Heritage committee Do you mean the email that was received on August 2?
February 13th, 2023Committee meeting
Mala Khanna