What is going on with Canada’s Economic Action Plan?
Winnipeg has been the centre of a maelstrom over the past week since Youth for Christ stepped forward with a completed funding proposal in hand for an 11 million dollar rec centre. It’s been huge news in the province, and once the public political fisticuffs was out of the way residents were left debating city hall.
It is done, city council caved like wet cardboard. Community based groups which rely on operational funding are upset. The games being played are not recreational and the debate rightfully continues. (4.2 million municipal/3.2 million federal)
This is not an us/them debate, it is an ‘our’ debate.
Money is being given to faith based charities without public input. We’re kidding ourselves if we lull ourselves into the standard framing of it’s just a local or provincial liberal media driven dust-up, tax payers and delivery of services in communities across Canada are affected. Opposition to federal money being tossed out to religious charities, and economic pressure on municipal autonomy, is not about being anti-Christian despite what political cheerleaders are chanting.
I have a question.
How many federal grants have been handed out lately to faith groups?
I have another question.
Where has money been doled out to faith groups?
$986,667 for the Catholic Youth Organization of the Diocese of Hamilton
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$371,650 for the Good Sheperd Venture Center (Which I didn’t know was Catholic too!)
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$2,947,652 For Redeemer University College (A Christian School)
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$1,000,000 For a soccer field at Redeemer University College
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$300,000 For phase 2 of the soccer fieldSo That’s
$5,605,969 For Hamilton’s Religious circle
(I’ve written Redeemer College to ask how many community groups have applied or been able to play on the field)
Where else?
If you know, please comment and link.
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“(I’ve written Redeemer College to ask how many community groups have applied or been able to play on the field)”
You might also ask if it can be rented out for any events during Pride Week or for outdoor weddings.
Redeemer College is in Ancaster Ontario. The MP for the area is David Sweet. David Sweet was the leader in Canada of Promise Keepers. Almost every citation about his involvement in PK have been scrubbed off the internet
Ancaster was the home of David Mainse until he and his wife relocated to eastern Ontario.
MP Vic Toews who has defended the Winnipeg deal ran in a 1999 provincial election and got himself fined for overspending.
The former head of Focus on the Family Canada is Harper’s senior policy advisor. Other’s on the religious right moved up the ranks in last year’s PMO re-shuffle under Giorno.
“I’ve asked for a list of all those people that came here to do presentations against [the funding proposal] and I said I’d really appreciate their name, their role, their contact and I would love myself to initiate some dialogue with them to see where … we can talk together and partner and learn,” Courtney said on the heels of the controversial decision.
(CBC article linked in post)
Can we spell intimidation?
If YFC is that out of touch they need a list, this is not going to go well.
YFC has been recognized as a charity in Winnipeg since 1981 and he doesn’t know who has been expressing concern?
He adds comparison to residental schools is not fair because ‘what happened there wasn’t Christian’.
The people running the residental schools thought they were Christian and what they were doing was Christian and in mandate with their ‘Christian worldview.’
Mr. Courtney comes across communicating that what others feel, think, experienced, know, believe, need, are about him.
This is not going to go well.
“Ancaster was the home of David Mainse”….”Catholic Youth Organization”….”Good Sheppard Venture Centre….is Catholic”
How awful, how dare the government help out anything affiliated with Catholicism. A school in Ancaster gets help in with athletic facilities, terrible, Mainse used to live near by, must be a connection.
McCarthyism alive and well with the hard left.
This is just a minor tip-of-the-iceberg moment.
I’ve seen a lot of funding for the YMCA. Do they count as a religious group? And what about cancellations of funding at a time when arts and community groups need them most?
What irks me most is the massive array of political appointments that are being handed out like silver dollars at a bicentennial parade. Stephen Harper is poisoning the well of public service for decades to come.
How come you did not mention the fact that city of Ottawa spends 22 million a year of taxpayers money to actively promote homosexuality among youth at risk in that city??
Ottawa Youth Services Bureau is headed by homosexual activist Alex Munter who was hired for a position of Executive Director of YSB despite of the fact that he does not have any qualification for that job.
It seems to me that it is OK with lefties when sexual perverts get the jobs and taxpayers money to teach Canadain youth fine points of faggotry but it is not OK if Catholics get taxpayers money to teach Canadian kids basics of Christian morality.
You can’t have it both ways Karol.
If you object to the executive of Ottawa Youth Services Bureau, have you contacted them?
This Mr. Munter?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Munter
Define homosexual activist.
Define qualifications.