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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Andy Lee who is a nutbar, but she went to visit a bunch of these consulting firms offices and took pictures of empty offices.
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Andy Lee seems to have dug up quite a bit of dirt on one such "charity" (I am assuming you are alluding to this one as this is the one that is most viral). This charity got 30.5 million in grants in the past 2 years with empty offices and PO box addresses.
https://climateinstitute.ca/
https://search.open.canada.ca/grants...-00011,current
Looking at grants from Environment Canada in recent years I stumbled upon this:
https://search.open.canada.ca/grants...-00005,current
20 million dollars? Imagine my shock to find that "Canadian Institute for Clean Growth and Climate Change" is the previous name for Canadian Climate Institute. That's thus 50.5 million for an organization turned charity that apparently doesn't donate to anything, or do...anything outside of paying salaries to themselves for writing articles that promote and support government policies?
https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure...1®Id=912055
This is the address linked to CCI in 2022 (it's now listed as a PO Box in Bobcaygeon ON...)
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3950...8192?entry=ttu
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment...institute.html
This organization was initially spearheaded by Catherine McKenna. A government created organization turned 'independent' charity received 50.5 million dollars in government grants and is now registered as a lobbyist...to recommend on what the government is looking to implement.
One of many examples :government taking some heat on heating oil carbon tax carve out? Here's a perfectly timed article by the independent charity literally excusing the government's carve out for heating oil, while simultaneously explaining why extending it to natural gas is bad.
https://climateinstitute.ca/removing...ans-worse-off/
"Exempting heating oil has a negligible impact on emissions "
"Taking the carbon price off gas heating would raise emissions "
"Adding natural gas to the carbon price exemption would increase emissions more than if the carve-out were limited to heating oil alone."
Independent indeed. How the heck does this qualify as a charity? I would love for a few of the more astute posters to correct me here and provide something i don't see.