Sheikh Jamal Hammoud serves as the representative in Canada of the grand Mufti of Lebanon and the Supreme Muslim Court of Lebanon. Sheikh Jamal and other imams founded the Candian Council of Imams, which included meeting then Prime Minister Paul Martin. Since then, Hammoud has initiated the Alberta Council of Imams and the Alberta Muslim Council, vehicles for co-ordination activities and services and governing the faithful. Imam Jamal also keeps busy mentoring four Edmonton-born University of Alberta students whose goal is to become imams.