Vivian Krause, a Vancouver researcher and writer (her blog is fair-questions.com; on Twitter, she’s @FairQuestions) has taken it up a notch after me and other conservatives dared to question some of the lobbying and “community organizing” and those questionable claims of pure altruism being made by some well-known charities and activist groups. By carefully researching and asking all the right, fair questions, Krause in particular has done great work bringing public attention (and even media attention!) to the often non-transparent, and sometimes questionable funding of all those typically left-wing political causes, where she lives in western Canada. I’m sure this goes on all over America too — and maybe all over the industrialized world.
Her latest must-read article is posted today at Financial Post. “Damage control: Green charities rewrite grant descriptions in wake of budget”. Note that Krause stays much more politically neutral than I and many of my like-minded conservative-advocating colleagues have done, much to her credit as an honest broker of apolitical research and information. So don’t read my added partisan politics into her research or her words.
Krause has documented that lots of the funding of the Canadian activist groups, and sometimes most or even all of it, is quietly American — by some famous American “philanthropists” (as the media always call them) like the left-wing billionaire political activist George Soros, the Tides Foundation, and many of the other usual suspects including some of the big, well-known (and well-known to be liberal) foundations. It’s funding which, she has found, is largely political in nature, having a lot more to do with political science and a lot less to do with “environmental science” (which is usually their stated cause — or it’s “get out the vote,” which I personally always follow-up with “–wink!” since they really mean get out the left-wing vote; or it’s any of those other claptrap pseudo-causes of the left).
As I see it, it’s about left-wing political activism, and moreover, swinging the electorate — voters — even more leftward than the public school teachers have managed to do on their own with our tax dollars. Ultimately, it’s about engineering the voting to advance a left-wing political agenda. Cough. Socialism. Cough.
Lately the left-wing activists are coordinating their ever so altruistic “community” and “environmental” activism at killing the Keystone oil pipeline, and all other oil pipelines, and all of the valuable oil sands developments, and the thousands of jobs,and profits, that go with them. And, I think, getting people elected who will help them to that end (cough and finally to socialism cough.)
Trouble is, politics and “charities” don’t mix. At least the law says they don’t. And Canada’s Conservative government is beginning to crack down on it. Possibly about three decades late, and with what I have little doubt will turn out to be a Hollywood prop sponge hammer rather than one made of hardened steel, as is per usual in Canada.
Back in 2007, I wrote a piece in my old ProudToBeCanadian.ca blog, which included this photo (at left) of the huge diesel motor coach used by an environmental “charity” led by the enviro pseudo-God (as seen by leftists), David Suzuki. He traveled across the country preaching, among other things, to school kids in public schools about how bad the Conservative leader Stephen Harper was. Just before an election.
“I don’t believe there is a green bone in Harper’s body – he has never, ever indicated he cares about the environment,” Suzuki told the classroom, filled with students and their parents. “It’s up to your moms and dads to ensure your futures and livelihoods are part of the agenda,” he went on, to about 185 students ranging from kindergarten to Grade 6.
One need only look at the huge banner painted across the CO2-spewing Suzuki campaign bus (as I called it) to see that politics is at the heart of his matter. I wrote about it length, questioning the legality of the Suzuki “charity,” in a blog entry I entitled Suzuki violating Canada’s laws? Is he an environmentalist religion “war criminal”?
Now that lots more heat has been applied to Suzuki’s greenhouse gas CO2-spewing rear end, David Suzuki has finally just resigned from his own charity, because, he says, he wanted to be able to speak freely “without fear that my words will be deemed too political and harm the organization of which I am so proud.” Well that ship has sailed, Suzuki. Luckily for him, ships powered by sail don’t spew as much CO2 as all his decades of left-wing politically-tinged blather.
Other charities in Canada are now rushing to change the wording of their stated goals in Canada, to try to fend off the new, latent attention being paid to them and their American bag men, by the Canadian taxation authorities and their Nerf hammers. As Vivian Krause points out in her Financial Post article today:
…The Seattle-based Bullitt Foundation rewrote its description of a grant… Bullitt’s original grant was $30,000 paid to the U.S. Tides Foundation for Dogwood “to mobilize urban voters for a federal ban on coastal tankers.” The problem here is that American charitable foundations aren’t allowed to mobilize voters in a foreign country. The rewritten grant says that the money was “to engage and educate citizens.” That rewrite came in December of 2010, days after I testified to a House of Commons committee about U.S.-funded campaigns that would thwart Canadian oil exports to Asia.
The Dogwood Initiative redesigned its website earlier this year. In doing so, Dogwood eliminated the Web page that listed its partners and supporters. Internet archives show that over the years, Dogwood has reported that at least seven U.S. foundations have supported Dogwood. These include the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Wilburforce Foundation, the Brainerd Foundation, the Bullitt Foundation and the U.S. Tides Foundation. …
It’s compelling reading for all conservatives who are interested in where all that funding is coming from for all those “community organizer” groups, both in America and Canada. Hi Barack Obama.
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Well, maybe you should do a piece on conservative charities and see what they are lobbying for. very biased and one sided argument. push that fear agenda.