Why, This Doesn't Sound Suspicious At All

Dominion.🗳️

A quick check & it appears Dominion Voting Systems and a Canadian branch of the notorious Tides Foundation are based in the same Toronto office complex.

If you aren't familiar with Tides, maybe a once-affiliated group rings a bell: ACORN.🤔🔽https://t.co/MI9pfsJvL9 pic.twitter.com/fAVaH00SEr

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 13, 2020

 

This Tides Canada:

Krause — the Vancouver-based researcher, who over the last 10 years has been following the money trail behind environmental activism in Canada — backs up every claim with tax filings and other documents.

She has traced $600 million that has flowed into Canada from U.S. foundations to restrict the development and export of oil and natural gas from Canada and provided the senate committee with an 80-page document that showed each of those grants that specifically refers to a tanker ban in B.C.’s waters.

As she stated in her compelling testimony on May 7 before the senate committee that spent thousands of hours studying Bill C-48, Krause found more than 50 grants that specifically mentioned a tanker ban or tanker traffic.

When Trudeau announced on Nov. 26, 2016, that he would approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion but kill Northern Gateway pipeline — which had been approved by the National Energy Board after years of gruelling regulatory hoop jumping by Enbridge and was passed by the Harper government — he also promised a tanker ban.

The reason Trudeau gave for scrapping Northern Gateway and bringing in a tanker ban was because the tanker traffic that would have carried Alberta bitumen to Asia went through an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest.

Krause says that as far back as 1999, the creation of the Great Bear Rainforest has been significantly funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation — the family that ironically founded the U.S. oil industry and made billions doing so. More recently, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation granted $267 million to Canadian environmental groups.

“The top recipient of these funds, Tides Canada, the central proponent of the Great Bear Rainforest, has received $83 million,” Krause told the Senate committee.

 

Also:

Given that the National Observer is partially funded by Tides, it bears mention that Tides is by no means an impartial bystander in the campaign against Alberta oil. In fact, Tides is the funding and co-ordination juggernaut behind anti-pipeline activism. Totaling US$35 million, Tides made more than 400 payments (2009 to 2015) to nearly 100 anti-pipeline groups. Without all that Tides money, pipeline projects would not be facing well-organized opposition.

If Tides funded activists to act as honest brokers, that would be fair. But that’s not what Tides does. Tides funds The Tar Sands Campaign, an international effort that aims to embarrass Canada, deter investment and stigmatize Alberta oil as the poster child of dirty fuel. The goal of this campaign is nothing short of stopping the export of Alberta oil by pipeline, rail and tanker.

 

(Sidebar: these "tar sands".) 

Somewhat related:

More than a third of election officers in the last federal campaign encountered voters whose names were missing from the National Register Of Electors. Data follow disclosures the voters’ list contained at least 312,000 names of ineligible electors including dead people and foreigners: ‘They were unable to be registered at the polling station.’

This guy was prescient:

North America’s largest pipeline company Enbridge Inc. warned of “devastating consequences” on Friday after Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer served the company notice the state would seek to cancel a 67-year-old pipeline easement across critical waterways in her state.

Whitmer’s office and the state’s Department of Natural Resources filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel an easement granted in 1953 to cross the Straits of Mackinac, an important water body connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.

If the easement were pulled, Enbridge would have to stop flowing oil and natural gas products like propane through its Line 5 pipeline, which connects Western Canadian oil and gas production with refineries in Ontario and across the U.S. Midwest. A shutdown of the line could send gas prices soaring, particularly in Toronto. ...

A shutdown of Line 5 would likely lead to higher gasoline prices in southern Ontario and several U.S. Midwest states, analysts said.

 

Let them fight.

(Merci)