OTTAWA — Groups across the country are facing a cash crisis after they were initially rejected for a Canada Summer Jobs grant for refusing to sign a controversial attestation to respect abortion rights. The federal grants are discretionary, but many groups have received the funding every year for a decade or more. Youth for Christ’s chapters across Canada have used the grants for years to fund more than 100 student jobs annually. But the attestation itself remained unchanged, and dissenting groups either refused to sign it, crossed out part of it, or pencilled in their own clarification. “Instead they tried to explain it away, but still asked groups to sign the same attestation.

Source: National Post March 15, 2018 23:23 UTC