It's About Damn Time

Who is running this country - the Chinese businessmen lining the coffers of the Trudeau Foundation or American-funded anti-oil interests?:

The Alberta government has opened a new offensive in the fight against oilsands critics, announcing on Thursday a public inquiry into the finances of environmental organizations, specifically on funding from foreign donors, a bugbear of Jason Kenney’s government.

Such a move raises the stakes for environmental groups that could now be compelled to testify before the inquiry and face as yet unknown consequences — perhaps lawsuits, Kenney speculated — once the commissioner reports back to the legislature.

“For more than a decade, Alberta has been the target of a well-funded political propaganda campaign to defame our energy industry and to landlock our resources,” Kenney told reporters in Calgary in announcing the inquiry.

The United Conservatives have long promised a “fight back strategy” aimed at shellacking the critics of Alberta’s energy industry and supporting those who want to bolster it. So far, the plan has consisted of creating a war room to counter “misinformation” and using a litigation fund to support the legal battles of pro-energy industry Indigenous groups.

These people:

Why did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau order his revenue minister to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from auditing politically active charities? Was it to protect his best friend and former principal secretary, Gerald Butts?

Those are just two of the many questions asked by Vivian Krause during a sold out Calgary Chamber of Commerce luncheon Wednesday at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel and during a scrum with reporters afterwards.

Krause, the Vancouver-based researcher who has single-handedly exposed the foreign-funded campaign to “land-lock Alberta crude” — which Alberta Premier Jason Kenney vows to hold a public inquiry into — pointed out that her popular blog and Twitter account are called Fair Questions, because she doesn’t claim to have all of the answers.

Toward the end of her more than one-hour discussion — complete with numerous slides showing the paper trail behind $600 million of American money from U.S. foundations to Canadian environmental groups to “demarket” Canadian oil and gas — Krause turned her attention to how questions surrounding CRA audits of political charities in Canada “go right to the office of our prime minister.”

“When the current government came to office, the prime minister characterized these audits as ‘political harassment’ in his mandate letter to the national revenue minister, and the finalization of the political activity audits was suspended (by the CRA),” she told the attentive crowd of 170 chamber members and their guests.

It should not only be Premier Kenney or private researcher Vivian Krause asking these questions but every premier, MP and citizen. Why would a sitting prime minister allow American anti-Canadian oil groups to derail an industry vital to the Canadian economy?

If no one is asking, they are either not paying attention or are in on it.



(Merci)