Leo Adler, national affairs director of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center has been appointed as a member to the Federal Cross-Cultural Roundtable on Security. The group will work with the federal government to develop measures relating to national security. Its first meeting will take place in early March in Ottawa. The Friends group has been very active in highlighting online instances of hate and racist material.

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