CRA audits disproportionately targeted Muslim charities for years, says civil liberties group

According to the CRA, it does not select registered charities for audit based on any particular faith or denomination, nor does it maintain statistics tracking audits based on denominations.

Minister of National Revenue Diane Lebouthillier, left, and Tim McSorley, national co-ordinator of the Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, right. Mr. McSorley said his organization was approached by a number of people in the Muslim community who work within the charitable sector complaining about the Canada Revenue Agency, which Ms. Lebouthillier oversees.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade, photograph courtesy of Twitter

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

June 23, 2021

Muslim charities have been disproportionately targeted for audits by the Canada Revenue Agency for just under two decades, according to a recent report from an Ottawa-based civil liberties group, which claims the work of the agency’s Review and Analysis Division (RAD) has been carried out in secre...

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