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A legislative staffer donating to an organization outside the jurisdiction of Canada which vowed to ignore Canadian finance laws... By population, we're a smal
by scj 5y ago
A legislative staffer donating to an organization outside the jurisdiction of Canada which vowed to ignore Canadian finance laws...
By population, we're a small country. If this becomes a regular occurrence, Canadians are going to need to pay for the tax burden of policing foreign-financed supercharged protest groups!
Beyond that, giving foreigners input on Canadian policy through money is undemocratic.
I miss American benign neglect.
- inter_netuser 5y agoEvery single NGO and charity in Canada, including politically active NGOs, can and do receive foreign funding. It's perfectly legal, and it is very much a regular occurrence. David Suzuki Foundation at some point received over 50% of its funding from foreign sources. Quite honestly, the common attitude around this whole foreign funding is "I don't want foreign money funding causes I personally don't like". Everyone is an internationalist, until that becomes personally inconvenient, in this case politically.
- ksaj 5y agoI don't recall that David Suzuki ever cost Canadians significant amounts of money in policing. That's what OP was talking about - the cost of policing. There is also the significant cleanup. If David Suzuki conducted a protest, then his organization would be expected to pay for the license, the cleanup, and the policing. I don't know what the final bill will be, but this one event is well into the tens of millions. Nobody from the protest seems too interested in paying for these expenses, and instead are hoping to leave it to Canadians to pay through taxes.
- frabbit 5y agoCouldn't they just criminally charge David Suzuki for "counselling to commit mischief" (current charge against the protest "leader") if he says that tree-sitting to stop old-growth fortest destruction is a good idea? Sounds like democracy costs money to police. It would be much easier to just be able to "clear out" downtown (as the CBC puts it).
- inter_netuser 5y agoStrange how nobody wants to denounce David Suzuki Foundation for getting foreign funding. Suddenly it's now about policing costs, for some reason. It's almost like there is an approved list of causes/entities that are pre-approved for unlimited amounts of foreign funding.