OTTAWA — Efforts by the federal government to quash an ongoing court case seeking a judicial review of Canada’s funding of a contentious UN agency were struck down in court this week.
On Wednesday, Federal Court Justice Glennys McVeigh dismissed a challenge by the government, who claimed the court had no jurisdiction over the government’s decision to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA,) and that decisions to support international humanitarian causes are made solely by the executive authority of ministers of the Crown.
