'Charities' are helping the U.S. keep Canada over a barrel
Ross McMillan, the CEO of the controversial charity Tides Canada, will speak Wednesday at the Economic Club of Canada on accountability and transparency in the charity sector. Perhaps Mr. McMillan will explain why the U.S. Tides Foundation (Tides USA) founded Tides *Canada.
Tides USA is a co-funder of the Rockefeller Brothers Tar Sands Campaign, whose first goal is to stop or limit pipelines and refinery expansions. But of all the hundreds of pipelines in North America, the only pipelines that the Rockefellers single out in their multi-million-dollar campaign are the Mackenzie pipeline and the Enbridge Northern Gateway — pipelines that would export Canadian energy.
The Rockefeller Brothers also seek to ban oil tanker traffic, but again, they only oppose oil tankers on the strategic coast of British Columbia and in the far north — those export-bound to Asia.
The Rockefeller Brothers Tar Sands Campaign involves the World Wildlife Fund, the Pembina Institute, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Indigenous Environmental Network and other environmental groups funded through Tides USA. The annual budget for this campaign against Canadian oil is $7-million.
These groups say they would stop pipelines and tanker traffic by “raising the negatives,” “raising the costs,” “slowing down and stopping infrastructure development” and “enrolling key decision-makers.”
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Canadian pipelines targeted by U.S. funds | FP Comment | Financial Post
But wait a minute...
Tides can’t launder away its deceit
In 1976, a left-wing American activist-entrepreneur named Drummond Pike set up an organization called the Tides Foundation with a clever plan: He knew that high-profile, established trust funds (think: the Rockefeller Brothers Trust or the Packard Foundation) sometimes wanted to fund highly political groups — say, groups promoting gun control — but they didn’t always feel comfortable having those donations in the public eye. Pike invited them to donate to Tides, instead, where he would ensure the money ended up where they wanted — without their names being attached to it. And he’d take a cut on his end, too. As one activist watchdog website describes it, Tides is, “less like a philanthropy” and more like a “money-laundering enterprise.”
Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us, then, that Tides Canada, the U.S. group’s northern branch plant, has been working so hard to conceal its own activities. Now that the federal government has announced that it will be more closely scrutinizing groups that use their charitable status to illegally campaign for political causes, Tides — which has been taking advantage of Canada’s generous charitable tax subsidies, while also funding heavily political activities — knows its bound to come under scrutiny. Environment Minister Peter Kent has specifically raised concern about foreign funds being “laundered” through Canadian-registered charities. Tides Canada collects a lot of foreign funds.
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Ross McMillan, the CEO of the controversial charity Tides Canada, will speak Wednesday at the Economic Club of Canada on accountability and transparency in the charity sector. Perhaps Mr. McMillan will explain why the U.S. Tides Foundation (Tides USA) founded Tides *Canada.
Tides USA is a co-funder of the Rockefeller Brothers Tar Sands Campaign, whose first goal is to stop or limit pipelines and refinery expansions. But of all the hundreds of pipelines in North America, the only pipelines that the Rockefellers single out in their multi-million-dollar campaign are the Mackenzie pipeline and the Enbridge Northern Gateway — pipelines that would export Canadian energy.
The Rockefeller Brothers also seek to ban oil tanker traffic, but again, they only oppose oil tankers on the strategic coast of British Columbia and in the far north — those export-bound to Asia.
The Rockefeller Brothers Tar Sands Campaign involves the World Wildlife Fund, the Pembina Institute, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Indigenous Environmental Network and other environmental groups funded through Tides USA. The annual budget for this campaign against Canadian oil is $7-million.
These groups say they would stop pipelines and tanker traffic by “raising the negatives,” “raising the costs,” “slowing down and stopping infrastructure development” and “enrolling key decision-makers.”
more
Canadian pipelines targeted by U.S. funds | FP Comment | Financial Post
But wait a minute...
Tides can’t launder away its deceit
In 1976, a left-wing American activist-entrepreneur named Drummond Pike set up an organization called the Tides Foundation with a clever plan: He knew that high-profile, established trust funds (think: the Rockefeller Brothers Trust or the Packard Foundation) sometimes wanted to fund highly political groups — say, groups promoting gun control — but they didn’t always feel comfortable having those donations in the public eye. Pike invited them to donate to Tides, instead, where he would ensure the money ended up where they wanted — without their names being attached to it. And he’d take a cut on his end, too. As one activist watchdog website describes it, Tides is, “less like a philanthropy” and more like a “money-laundering enterprise.”
Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us, then, that Tides Canada, the U.S. group’s northern branch plant, has been working so hard to conceal its own activities. Now that the federal government has announced that it will be more closely scrutinizing groups that use their charitable status to illegally campaign for political causes, Tides — which has been taking advantage of Canada’s generous charitable tax subsidies, while also funding heavily political activities — knows its bound to come under scrutiny. Environment Minister Peter Kent has specifically raised concern about foreign funds being “laundered” through Canadian-registered charities. Tides Canada collects a lot of foreign funds.
more
Tides can
h/t sda small dead animals: Free Ethical Oil!
