Feds can’t say if public servants belong to Antifa, despite past case tied to alleged church firebombing

Subhead:A response to an order paper question reveals Ottawa neither tracks activist affiliations nor defines Antifa, even after Rebel News uncovered controversy linked to the Department of National Defence.# The federal government has no idea whether its own employees are affiliated with Antifa, and apparently, it has no plans to find out, even after a high-profile case raised serious concerns. That’s according to a new response to an order paper question, Q-884, filed by Conservative MP Dan Mazier, which asked whether members of the federal public service could be involved in the far-left activist network. The answer? The government doesn’t track it. The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, which oversees the federal public service, admitted outright that it does not collect any information about ideological or activist affiliations. “The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, on behalf of the Government of Canada, does not collect this information for the public service,” the response states. In other words, Ottawa has no mechanism to determine whether federal employees are involved in politically motivated activist groups, even those associated with disruptive protests or violence. Meanwhile, the Department of National Defence offered a different explanation; it claims it can’t even define the problem.

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