Thread by @youseepeeYYC

This is populist trash.

linkedin.com/posts/dave-hei…

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Cited “True North Centre” article uses the Canadian Taxpayers Federation as a source.

Now I’ve already done a thread discussing who supports the Canadian Taxpayer Federation.

Spoiler alert: they are supported by foreign billionaires through a dark money network, and incubated the beginning of @jkenney’s career. Yeah. WTF?

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1335335842844352512

So who is supporting the “True North Centre” as they spread misinformation and populism?

Lets look!

I’m going to lean heavily on a @pressprogress article for this thread.

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pressprogress.ca/right-wing-med…

“Founded by Candice Malcolm, a former spokesperson for Jason Kenney and the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation...”

Remember what we discovered about the CTF earlier?

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

“...True North simultaneously describes itself as a “media company,” an “advocacy organization” and, according to court documents, as a “registered charity with the government of Canada.””

#cdnmedia

“It’s a complicated structure,” she wrote in Quillette last week, describing True North as a “full-spectrum digital media organization produced through a registered charity — one that is not permitted to engage in political advocacy.”

“Yet True North has run petitions with clear calls to action opposing the Trudeau government’s policies on issues ranging from pipelines to refugees to Sharia Law.”

(How is this very political organization operating as a charity, if they’re not supposed to? 🤷‍♂️)

“According to its most recent annual filings, True North states that it has “ongoing programs” that provide “support and assistance to UK immigrants to the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and the rest of British Columbia.””

“The filings suggest 100% of True North’s programs put emphasis on “immigrant aid.””

“Before 2018, the charitable entity currently named True North operated under the name “Independent Immigration Aid Association,” a charity established in 1994 to welcome immigrants from the United Kingdom to British Columbia.”

Daniel Brown, a former director of the charity, told PressProgress that the charity’s original activities “involved mainly responding to requests for information and sometimes direct aid, such as greetings at YVR.”

(Seems wholesome enough. When did they become TNC?)

“Brown confirmed to PressProgress he knew Malcolm and her husband. He said the charity’s directors agreed to transfer control of the registered charity to them after they “expressed an interest in acquiring a charity to do research on immigration.””

#cdnmedia

“In 2017, we handed off the charity to a new board of directors who renamed it the True North Centre for Public Policy,” he said.

In December 2017, the directors of the Independent Immigration Aid Association transferred control of the charity to three people:

“Kaz Nejatian, Malcolm’s husband, also a former trusted Kenney staffer, who moved on from politics and now works for Shopify in Silicon Valley;”

Nejatian is actually a VP with shopify.

Also, Shopify??

William McBeath, at the time, the right-wing Manning Centre’s Director of Training and Marketing;

McBeath has moved on to “Canadians for Democracy and Prosperity” which we earlier learned receives financial support from foreign billionaires through the Atlas Network.

Here’s where we discovered that in our thread on anti-maskers getting encouraged by the “Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms” (JCCF)

https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1335401141438349313?s=21

https://t.co/pwcoh2TcOk

I encourage you to read @wearenorth99’s article about the JCCF, which I have heavily referenced before.

#cdnmedia
north99.org/2018/01/26/far…

The third name is “Erynne Schuster, the same name as an Edmonton-based lawyer.”

I didn’t find much else about this name. 🤷‍♂️

All three directors list their registered address at a virtual office in Richmond, BC where the charity rents a mailbox under its name — although Nejatian and Malcolm both indicate on social media they live in Palo Alto, California & other directors indicate they live in Alberta.