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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 6, 2023

Who is the Canada Growth Council? Why Did They Mass Text Manitobans?
Group has ties to anti-LGBTQ religious sect, Alberta’s UCP, and Sask Party
https://pressprogress.ca/who-is-the-canada-growth-council-why-did-they-mass-text-manitobans/

This is Part 2 of an Investigative Series: Merchants in the Temple – How an Anti-LGBTQ Religious Sect Wields Money & Power in Canada
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#Canada #neofascism #lgbt #CultureWars #CanadaGrowthCouncil #neoliberalism #Saskatchewan #Alberta #FarRight #UCP #TakeBackAlberta #UnitedConservativeParty #PressProgress

Who is the Canada Growth Council? Why Did They Mass Text Manitobans?

Group has ties to anti-LGBTQ religious sect, Alberta’s UCP, and Sask Party

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 6, 2023

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* Canada Growth Council describes itself as “group of motivated individuals that fed up with anti-growth propaganda, foreign-funded activist groups & the absence of strong voices that advocate on behalf of free-enterprise & prosperity in Canada”
* CGC has run right-wing attack ads during elections
* one of biggest 2019 donors to CGC has deep ties to: Alberta’s United Conservative Party; and, Shaping Canada’s Future

#CanadaGrowthCouncil #UCP #ShapingCanadasFuture

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 6, 2023

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Anti-LGBTQ Religious Sect Members Donated to CGC, Campaigned Against Gay Marriage
https://pressprogress.ca/who-is-the-canada-growth-council-why-did-they-mass-text-manitobans

* 13 members of secretive Plymouth Brethren Christian Church donated $40,000 to Canada Growth Council in 2019.
* donations came f. Brethren members across Canada but were all made w/i 48 hrs

Who is the Canada Growth Council? Why Did They Mass Text Manitobans?

Group has ties to anti-LGBTQ religious sect, Alberta’s UCP, and Sask Party

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Addendae 1

Re: Australian-based evangelical megachurches see also:
https://persagen.com >> search: hillsong

Megachurches are growing as churches close across the U.S.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187460517/megachurches-growing-liquid-church

Liquid Church is one of about 1,800 "megachurches" in the U.S., defined as having 2,000+ members.
As empty pews force churches across the U.S. to shutter megachurches are bucking that trend attracting younger, more diverse congregations

#HillsongChurch #HillsongNYC #LiquidChurch #megachurches

Persagen.com

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 26, 2023

Addendae 2

PR Firm Hired By Manitoba’s Premier Has Ties to 3rd Party Group Behind Controversial Attack Ads
https://pressprogress.ca/pr-firm-hired-by-manitobas-premier-has-ties-to-3rd-party-group-behind-controversial-attack-ads/

Derek Robinson, runs a PR firm called Mash Strategy, was a founding director and spokesperson for a third-party advertising group called the Canada Growth Council.
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#Canada #Manitoba #FarRight #CultureWars #neoconservatism #HeatherSefanson #MashStrategy #CanadaGrowthCouncil

PR Firm Hired By Manitoba’s Premier Has Ties to 3rd Party Group Behind Controversial Attack Ads

Manitoba PCs previously denied connection to pro-Tory mass texts

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 26, 2023

Addendae 2 cont'd 2/

* CGC sent controversial pro-Manitoba PC mass text to Manitobans 2023-06
* also ran Facebook ads, billboard ads, mailouts to homes
* according to Mash Strategy Facebook & Twitter posts published October 30, 2021, the PR firm said it was “proud to have played a small part in helping Heather Stefanson become Manitoba’s next Premier”
* Derek Robinson was a top communications officer for former Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall before founding Mash Strategy in 2018

#MashStrategy

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 26, 2023

Addendae 2 cont'd 3/

CGC's projects include

* Pierre Poilievre leadership campaign
* Alberta UCP 2023 election campaign
* right-wing groups like Canadian Taxpayers Federation
* industry lobby groups like Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers; Shell
* Vancouver & Saskatoon police departments

Canada Growth Council has ties to controversial anti-LGBTQ religious sect whose members’ companies obtained millions in COVID-19 emergency contracts f. Manitoba government

https://pressprogress.ca/who-is-the-canada-growth-council-why-did-they-mass-text-manitobans

Who is the Canada Growth Council? Why Did They Mass Text Manitobans?

Group has ties to anti-LGBTQ religious sect, Alberta’s UCP, and Sask Party

PressProgress

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 26, 2023

Addendae 2 cont'd 4/

https://pressprogress.ca/religious-sect-members-who-obtained-12-million-though-manitoba-government-contracts-run-companies-out-of-co-owned-building-records-show

https://persagen.com >> search:
"Derek Robinson" >> Buffalo Project: https://persagen.com/docs/buffalo_project.html
"Canadian Taxpayers Federation"
"Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers"

#Canada #Manitoba #FarRight #CultureWars #neoconservatism #HeatherSefanson #MashStrategy #CanadaGrowthCouncil

Religious Sect Members Who Obtained $12 Million Through Manitoba Government Contracts Run Companies Out of Co-

Business funds sect’s political activity, ex-members say

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 18, 2023

Addendae 1 cont'd

Hillsong Church founder found not guilty of concealing father's child sex crimes
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194499061/hillsong-church-brian-houston-not-guilty-concealing-sex-crimes

* Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston ruled not guilty of Australian charge of concealing his father's child sex crimes
* Houston was Sydney-based megachurch's senior global pastor wh. police charged him 2 years ago w. concealing serious indictable offense
* resigned from church roles months later

#HillsongChurch #HillsongNYC #LiquidChurch #megachurches #BrianHouston