Canadian police have submitted an affidavit to the Federal Court in Canada on April 1, 2008 showing World Tamil Movement (WTM)’s inextricable links to the LTTE. It showed that the WTM has used Canadian electoral lists to track Tamil residents and collect funds and has organised various events for the same purpose. A letter allegedly written by the LTTE leader giving instructions about fund raising was also included in the affidavit.

The police claimed that as much as $50,000 a month was being drawn from bank accounts in Toronto and funnelled to the LTTE. Canadian contribution is about 15 percent of the global funding received by the LTTE, the affidavit said.

In 2006, the RCMP raided the Montreal and Toronto offices of the World Tamil Movement, just days after the Conservative government declared the Tamil Tigers a banned terrorist entity.