(CBC News-Canada) The Canadian federal government is promising to look into the possibility that a UN agency Canada backs is employing members of Hamas, a Palestinian group Canada has defined as terrorists. UNRWA head Peter Hansen told CBC TV, "I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don't see that as a crime. Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant and we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another."
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