🧵The other day @pressprogress published an article (pressprogress.ca/ontario-educat… ) exposing @Sflecce’s private audience with right wing religious lobbying organization & “think tank”, #Cardus. #OntEd #FireLecce #cdnpoli
#Cardus, a registered “charity”, wants taxpayers to fund private for-profit religious schools & a voucher system that has gutted public education in 🇺🇸.

This model would siphon needed funds from public schools & funnel them instead to schools with RW religious ideology #ONpoli
#Cardus revenues = nearly $5M/yr.
Cardus’ donations from other charities increased 17.4 X from 2008-2020. A nearly 2,000% increase in just over a decade. Yet they pay zero in taxes, because “charity”…like lobbying to gut public education in favour of for-profit religious schools
Looking at the charities that donate to #Cardus is both telling & suspicious. Like rabidly far right anti-choice extremist groups like “Focus on the Family”. The fact that Lecce meets with Cardus while ignoring parenting groups fighting for public education, is chilling. #OntEd
But that’s not all.

#Cardus parters with other groups like CLAC (Christian Labour Association of Canada), an anti-union front group that poses as union advocacy. They create propaganda to bust unions & oppose #LivingWage & #FightFor15. richardhughes.ca/ndps-community… #CanLab #Cdnpoli
These right wing Christian organizations are well funded & are influencing public policy in multiple countries at all levels of government. They mount court challenges, have complex propaganda networks & funding operations. I.e. another Cardus partner is #Charis (.com .ca .org)
When operating from a position of religious ideology as a means to achieve power, as we’ve witnessed in 🇺🇸, the ends always justify the means in the minds of the “chosen”. Code words like “religious freedom” “school choice” “free speech” are used to manipulate the public.#cdnpoli
So when parents struggling to pay for childcare in Ontario aren’t getting the #10dollarChildcare the Trudeau gov’t negotiated with EVERY OTHER PROVINCE, remember who put you in that position & why. #VoteFordOut2022 #FireLecce #OntEd #ONpoli #cdnpoli
Oh, and guess who else is a longtime #Cardus alum? #JasonKenney & the Orwellianly named “Progressive Contractors Association”, another anti-union front group that lobbies against regulations & a #LivingWage. #CanLab #cdnpoli
A loathsome addendum to this 🧵. White privileged individuals of #Cardus hid behind using POC & immigrants to justify spreading disinformation about #VaccinePassports. Non expert, Ed Bosveld of Cardus, penned an open letter for Cardus, misrepresenting the facts. #covidontario
Some more links to help combat the ongoing misinformation about “natural immunity” & why the studies anti-vaxxers like to point to are biased & deeply flawed.

echo360.org/media/df6327b6…

cbsnews.com/news/vaccine-p…

#Covid_19 #mRNA #VaccineMandate #ONpoli #OntHealth

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A question everyone should be asking: WHY has #cdnmedia failed to report on one of the biggest political scandals in decades. O’Toole & #CPC colluded w/ #Conservative premiers to delay implementing covid measures until after #elxn44vote. People died as a result #CovidInquiryNow
The very next day after #elxn44vote, #JasonKenney shuffles Shandro, #ScottMoe flies under the radar & the UCP sends an official request to the Trudeau gov’t for help. (Because of jurisdiction the feds must be invited). Something UCP could’ve done weeks ago. #CovidInquiryNow
I’d just like to underscore this point. The letter sent by Ric McIver the day he replaced Shandro, is extremely revealing. A “State of Public Health Emergency” was declared on Sept 15, but no formal request was made to the Trudeau gov’t until immediately after #Elxn44. #ABleg
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Already so tired of the “undecided voter” trope.

#Elxn44 #LeadersDebate
The bias from the moderator is already ridiculous. “You inspire people” she says to Jagmeet, then complains in her q that Trudeau “plunged the country” into an election. No minority government has ever lasted more than 2 years. We should vote mid winter?
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Multiple other women have come forward with VERY similar stories re #MarcEmery, grooming them when they were underage, giving them drugs (ecstasy, acid etc, in addition to weed) & coercing them into sexual activity. Yet this man is still a PPC candidate. #elxn44 #cdnpoli
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PPC candidate who deleted his tweet calling for PMJT to be assassinated, has also been accused by multiple women of being groomed by him when they were underage. Here’s one of the women who retrieved an old FB message. My God these people are vile. #Elxn44 #PPCCandidates #cdnpoli
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Yet Emery is still a #PPC candidate. The political right is a scourge. #Elxn44  #cdnpoli
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Why, in my view, is this a #CPC op & NOT originating with the PPC?

The CPC are the sole beneficiaries. They can look “reasonable” compared to the PPC & prevent #PPC from hiving off any CPC votes. But this op does other things too….#NeverVoteCPC #Elxn44 #NeverVoteConservative
…It gives #CPC plausible deniability for a sociopathic campaign straight out of the authoritarian playbook, it allows for gaslighting (as O’Toole has done, endlessly) & it creates an atmosphere of hate aimed at PMJT, while seeking to demoralize & intimidate Liberals. #Elxn44
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Erin O’Toole’s mercenary PR team, Topham Guerin, that handled Boris Johnson’s campaign & Brexit, have a history of malign influence tactics that seem to follow them around. They learned at the knee of Lynton Crosby, aka Australia’s Karl Rove. #Elxn44 #NeverVoteCPC
#Facebook is utilized heavily in Topham Guerin strategies. Skirting election laws by using front groups setting up Facebook pages that pretend to be grassroots, thus avoid inclusion as 3rd party advertising. Working for Crosby, TG oversaw an entire disinformation network. #Elxn44
When working for Scott Morrison, Australia’s current conservative PM (the Liberal Party in Australia is the equivalent of the #CPC), similar tactics that we’re witnessing in 🇨🇦, could be seen. The left was targeted in addition to the right. An oft used tactic by the Right #Elxn44
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