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Here's the 2006-2007 list.

Canadian Olympic Committee Toronto Ont $1,146,304

All these groups are organized scams more or less. This is what is wrong with our country.

Council of Agencies Serving South Asians Toronto Ont $260,592

South Asian Family Support Services Scarborough Ont $294,276

South Asian Women's Centre Toronto Ont $285,878

Tamil Eelam Society of Canada Scarborough Ont $521,032

Lasi World Skills Ottawa Ont $869,609

Midaynta Community Services Toronto Ont $350,077

South Asian Family Support Services Scarborough Ont $2,017,996

Asian Development Bank Manila Philippines $15,395,490

Alliance for South Asian Aids Prevention Toronto Ont (ORGANIZED GRANT SCAM?) $127,172

Asian Community Aids Services Toronto Ont (GRANT SCAM?) $153,000

India Rainbow Community Services Mississauga Ont $600,464

Inter-cultural Neighbourhood Mississauga Ont $2,210,267

FRR Law Office Jakarta India (WTF?? No website or info!!) $205,885

The Asia Foundation Jakarta India $368,039

IMTCL Islamabad Pakistan $140,915

National Anti-Racism Council of Canada Toronto Ont (the 'council' is HIDDEN. They simply LINK TO OTHER WEBSITES! They do NOTHING!) $110,017

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Auguste,

Great work.

The fact that this thread continues from 2005 is a nice touch. Of course, the disconcerting thing is that the CPC is now wearing new Liberal shoes...

I've been clicking around some of my mentioned websites and they honestly seem to be nothing more than link campaigns back and forth to other organations. There's 1 organization i just looked at that provides no services, have no address, and the board members are made of people from other groups. I divied up the $260,000 on this group between 10 people and that is $26,000 a year they are making for essentially a website with links and a whole lot of nothing.

What great news stories these can make.

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I can't believe I missed this post. Now the PDF doens't work.
The federal Public Works department - which pays out this money - does not maintain old lists. Hence, links in my posts above to previous lists don't work.

I have endeavoured to keep this thread current with annual links. I'm curious about these changes.

I suspect that the bureaucrats have interpreted the minister's mandate to include a web posting of the most recent list, but the mandate does not require archiving of past lists. Or something. Frankly, if I were the minister, I'd tell the bureaucrats to remove this embarrassing list from the Internet and, if it must be public, to post it only in small print on one bulletin board at the department in Ottawa. Why is this on the Internet? God knows.

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Government is a wonderful and useful institution. Socialists and the Left are correct to defend government as one aspect of a civilized society. Unfortunately, modern government has gone well beyond socialist or Enlightenment ideals. Modern government is now this transfer list. Modern government is also this.

In both cases, transfer list or the concentration of information, modern government has lost the critical connection between money coming in and money going out. This great disconnect is at the heart of the failure of the Soviet Union too.

Once again, I ask everyone to click on this link, flip through the list, and say that government needs more money.

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Here is a link to the latest list.

Once again, I urge anyone who thinks that government is too small, or that we pay taxes to have a civilized country, to flip through this list and think about government is in a modern society. Governments of various sorts take roughly 50% of our earnings. They transfer back to us about half of that: of course some people get more transfers than others.

This list gives a glimpse into benefits from big government. And it isn't always the people who, IMHO, deserve help in a civilized society.

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Conservative cabinet minister Maxime Bernier has a taste for expensive travel, government records show.

Bernier, who has been foreign affairs minister since last August, took a $22,573 airline flight to attend a two-day conference in Laos last November, with a stopover in Paris, according to travel records posted by the foreign affairs department on its "proactive disclosure" website.

The Star checked airfares and found that the minister could have made the trip to the Southeast Asian country comfortably for under $7,000.

With him on the trip were three staff, two whose flights were also pricey – about $18,500 each – plus one who reported flying to Laos for just $2,676.

With the additional cost of hotels and meals, the total bill to taxpayers was about $70,000. Bernier's flight was the most expensive flight taken by a government minister or official since the Harper government took power two years ago, according to government records.

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Hrab said they are scrambling to "reconcile" the information on their public website with invoices from American Express, which handled various bookings. He said they have had a high turnover of political and administrative staff at foreign affairs and have had a hard time getting answers to the Star's questions over the past two days.

"Not all of the travel and hospitality expense reports posted on the proactive disclosure website represent the final costs of travel," said Hrab. "I think some (costs) will go down," said Hrab. He said he did not know if some would go up.

Toronto Star

To one Canadian taxpayer, the difference between a federal government expense of $70,000 or $20,000 - spread across all Canadian taxpayers - is irrelevant since it's less than one penny. And this is the fundamental problem with government. Governments allow some people to spend other people's money in fractions that no one notices, except the person who spends it.

Maxime Bernier and his staff enjoyed a nice trip to Laos. And each Canadian lost less than a penny. Who notices? Well, the Toronto Star did for partisan political purposes. But how many other Maxime Berniers are there throughout the federal, provincial and municipal bureaucracies?

A federal government $70,000 grant to an obscure organization can go completely unnoticed to any individual taxpayer (taking one penny from each Canadian would amount to $300,000). But the grant is noticed by the recipient.

Modern government is a beast and we must find a way to reign it in.

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I'll just add that in Bernier's case, the big mistake was to let this appear on a website. There are many ways to hide travel and hospitality expenditures. I reckon some bureaucrats are two steps ahead of Bernier's staff.

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According to the 2008/09 Public Accounts (the most recent information available), Equiterre received $113,313 from taxpayers. The money came from a little-heard-of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) program called Contributions for Partnership Programming, a fund intended to support development of public engagement initiatives. (More on this program below).

Climate Action Network Canada (CANC) the group behind the Fossil of the Day award is an umbrella organization of several, mostly left-wing, organizations, all of which are listed on its website. A quick check of the 2008/09 Public Accounts reveals just how much money some of these organizations receive from Canadian taxpayers:

◦Assembly of First Nations ($1,500,000)

◦AQLPA ($318,400)

◦Canadian Council for International Cooperation ($243,000)

◦Canadian Labour Congress ($1,056,000)

◦Clean Nova Scotia Foundation Climate Change Centre ($113,000)

◦Ecology North ($119,300)

◦Equiterre ($113,313)

◦Green Communities Centre ($291,000)

◦Nature Canada ($444,200)

◦Nature Saskatchewan ($247,000)

◦Oxfam Canada ($21,561,000)

◦Pacific Peoples Partnership Program ($104,200)

◦Sage Centre ($189,100)

◦United Church of Canada ($993,000)

◦USC Canada ($4,130.,000)

◦World Wildlife Fund ($450,000)

◦Yukon Conservation Society ($128,900)

Canadian Centre for Policy Studies

IMV, the ideology of these payments started under Trudeau according to his philosophy of "creating counterweights". Trudeau imagined that by creating/funding advocacy groups, Canadian democracy would be strengthened against the possibility of a totalitarian State.

Such top-down social engineering may have made sense naive decades ago but now these groups are sinecures and if they have an ideology, it is to make the State ever larger. They don't protect our freedoms.

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