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Politicians alleged to be supporting LTTE fundraising in Canada, will be closely monitored by the Canadian government, in order to take stern action against them by exposing their activities, a spokesman for the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Canada said. According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, certain Canadian politicians are openly assisting LTTE fund-raising activities in Toronto. Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan High Commissioner claims that politicians have often turned a blind eye to LTTE fund-raising, in their constituencies, for personal gains. The politicians tolerate LTTE extremists in their constituencies, since the strength of the ethnic Tamil vote is important to them and they fear the impact it would have on their local electoral support base, Sri Lankan expatriates in Canada, said. Even though, Canada is being used by LTTE activists to generate a bad picture about the Sri Lankangovernment and its people, through various propaganda, in order to generate funding, Canada is becoming increasingly aware of the threat that the LTTE poses to the country. According to political sources, the Tigers engage in a number of illicit money-making deals, which include, drug and arms trafficking. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) report said, last month, that certain notorious, Tamil street gangs operating in Toronto and Montreal were generating funds for LTTE extremist activities against Sri Lanka. Canada became a signatory to the UN sponsored International
Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.
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