Testimony to the Senate Transport Committee, November 1, 2016

On November 1, 2016, I testified to the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications. 

• For the transcript, click here.
• For the video, click here.

Below, here are the materials that I submitted to the committee:

A.     About Anti-Pipeline Activism

1. The original strategy paper for The Tar Sands Campaign
2. Examples of excerpts from U.S. tax returns of the funders of the Tar Sands Campaign, showing the purposes for which funds have been paid
3. Examples of Inaccurate Information about GHG Emissions disseminated as part of The Tar Sands Campaign 
4. Three version of the Hewlett Foundation's Strategy Paper for Western Conservation. Note how it was re-written to omit the map showing how Canada is targeted:
   • The Hewlett Foundation's Five Year Strategy as of 2009
   • The "Refreshed" version of the Hewlett Foundation's strategy paper. Note that this version was BACK-DATED to August of 2013.
   • The Hewlett Foundation's "Refreshed" strategy paper which appeared in January of 2014 (shortly after this article was published: New U.S. funding for the war on Canadian oil)
5. A list of 54 payments for the Tar Sands Campaign, made by The Tides Foundation (2013)
6. A Comparison of what The Tides Foundation reported to the I.R.S. in U.S. tax returns vs. what it paid organizations to do, according to covering letters on payments (106 pages)
7. Covering letters on a batch of 27 payments made as part of the anti-pipeline Tar Sands Campaign
8. Covering letters on payments made via the Tides Canada Foundation Exchange Fund (NOTE: This file was added to this blog post on May 26, 2017).

B.      About The Tax Scam That The Tides Foundation & Tides Canada Foundation Have Been Involved In:

1. Tides Canada & Collette Travel, Pawtucket, Rhode Island (32 pgs)
2. A brochure produced by Tides Canada Foundation about its Exchange Fund
3. Excerpts of covering letters showing 25 payments made by Tides Canada to ineligible organizations outside Canada