Sometime in the late 20th century a phenomenon arose in Quebec from far-left policy writers called the social economy (ref.). This creeping infiltration of socialism within the rest of Canada was largely enabled by the politicians elected from Quebec, beginning under the auspices of Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chrétien, then Paul Martin and culminating with the current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau (ref.).
As of August 2018, another Quebec politician has thrown his hat in the ring. Maxime Bernier is proposing to oust Justin Trudeau in October of this year. He is presenting himself to Canadians as an advocate for free markets, taking a hard line against the Milk and Egg Boards, anti-multiculturalism and anti-corporate welfare. He has gathered a motley array of adherents from various sources, many disillusioned by the current political parties, looking for a new voice.
He set up his entourage from former colleagues and newer supporters: Martin Masse, a former staffer, now working as his senior advisor, Clinton Desveaux, a marketing specialist now working as fundraising director and Johanne Mennie, also a former staffer now filling the role of executive director for the PPC.
How is this related to this infestation of socialism within Canada? We previously published an article about Ms. Mennie’s involvement with promotion of the social economy which was well-supported with primary and secondary references. Many PPC supporters have refused to accept the truth of Ms. Mennie’s close involvement with the social economy initiative and the Tides Canada funding to forward this initiative. We referred to her attendance at a Vancity conference on October 19-20, 2006 (ref.) which was a Tides Canada Initiative. The claim was made that she was just a participant and was obliged to attend because it was part of her job.
Is Johanne Mennie a maligned bureaucrat?
The claim made to support Ms. Mennie’s innocence as pertains to being a key globalism funder was that she was just a bureaucrat doing her job. Why, if Ms. Mennie merely participated at this conference, did she then, on November 21 of the same year, attend a Privy Council meeting with three other members of the Vancity team and lobby for social capital?
On the left, meeting of the Privy Council. On the right, attendees at the Vancity conference.
At the Vancity meeting, the objective was clear.
The Tides Canada had a clear political mandate as well: to build an alliances with political parties in order to “seed a social finance agenda.”
The goal of the Tides conference
How is it possible to maintain that Johanne Mennie attended the meeting as a mere bureaucrat as is claimed by some members of the PPC (ref.)? Why would she then attend a meeting of the Privy Council and lobby for exactly the same socialist causes as were discussed at the Tides conference?
It is easy to see that the meeting with the Privy Council was a follow-up to the Tides conference. During this meeting, Ms. Mennie spoke at length about the value of the social economy. Her words in the following screenshot summarize beautifully the urgency for social capital:
Embedded section of Privy Council discussion.
Who oversaw the HRSDC?
When looking into the actions of a bureaucrat, it is always advisable to look beyond to their superiors. At the time of the two meetings mentioned in this document, Johanne Mennie was working under Maxime Bernier (ref.). If in fact Ms. Mennie was a simple bureaucrat, is it then her superior that is to blame? In reading this quoted document, it is interesting to observe that Maxime Bernier himself was celebrating funding of the social economy through government subsidization (see embedded section of article by M. Bernier).
Excerpt from Maxime Bernier’s article quoted above.
Bernier remained Minister of Industry until August 2007. During this time AND beyond, Stephen Harper cancelled many Social Capital projects which earned him criticism from various sources (ref.), so clearly any promotion of the social economy was not under Mr. Harper’s purview. Even upon taking up his role as Prime Minister, Mr. Harper began cutting back on social funding, which act was decried as early as the privy council meeting in November of 2006(see embedded quote of Mrs. Carol Hunter).
Quote from Privy Council meeting.
After Ms. Mennie’s time lobbying for the Social Economy and Social Capital, she went on to work with the Canadian Heritage Foundation and honed her skills at soliciting taxpayer funds to support various causes (ref.).
Implications
To fully grasp the magnitude of Ms. Mennie and Mr. Bernier’s involvement in the social economy initiative which is now undeniable, the reader must understand how closely linked this concept is to that of the UNGCM. To support this, we can fast forward to the Trudeau government’s recent promise of $755 million for social services for housing the homeless, the migrants and for jobs training (ref.). The information is available here as well:
Clearly the social economy movement from Quebec is putting the taxpayer on the hook for enormous amounts of money (outlined in this article by CIN) and this is only the beginning as migrants continue to pour across the Quebec border. The creeping socialist infiltration of our Canadian schools, colleges, banks, industries, and political circles largely originating in Quebec from the numerous politicians elected from that province will soon be the end of free speech, freedom of choice and the end of Canada as we know it.
Canada’s fledgling new party sprung out of nowhere seemingly, offering deeply Conservative cum Libertarian values. Its founder and leader, Maxime Bernier, announced unequivocally that the Conservative Party of Canada is ’too intellectually and morally corrupt to be reformed’ (1) and proceeded to create a new party which he later named the People’s Party of Canada (2).
Is Bernier the pure-as-driven-snow politician he purports to be? To the some 35,000 of his followers, he can do no wrong. He has said all the right words, he has inspired disillusioned people to leap upon his bandwagon of CPC bashing and attacking of the leader who beat him in the leadership race in 2017, Andrew Scheer.
We have examined his background and found numerous inconsistencies, however it is his current associations that have raised red flags. For a leader who is a bastion of conservatism to hire an individual such as Johanne Mennie for his Director of Communications is astonishing.
Who is Johanne Mennie? Johanne has worked in numerous roles in the government throughout her career. One major consistency, however, has been her involvement in social engineering and promotion of social economy.
Ms Mennie has been closely involved in more than one project with players such as Coro Strandberg who is the author of ‘Canada 2030: Embedding Sustainability into Corporate Governance’ (3), David LePage who is a founding partner of the Social Enterprise Institute (4) and Nancy Neamtan who is a promoter of Social Economy (5).
It is important to understand the definition of social economy. This video lays out the definition quite well, however in sum, it is a social system that promotes people over profit.
Social economy is a major focus of the European Union and the United Nations. Because of increasing globalisation, governments are being encouraged to promote a social economy rather than a profit-based enterprise model. In the words of Carol Hunter, Executive Director of the Canadian Co-operative Association and another known associate of Ms. Mennie, “In a time of a global economic crisis now, we need to have a profound rethinking of all the different business models that are sustainable — and co-operatives are definitely one of those different business models that we need to be looking at more so.” (6) Co-operatives are one of the many sustainable economic initiatives of Ms. Mennie and her associates.
Model developed by Nancy Neamtan and John Anderson
There are three main industrial sectors: firstly, the public sector which runs industries funded and government controlled, secondly the private sector which is for-profit and is run by privately owned companies that are answerable to their investors. The third industrial sector is the social economy under which umbrella are all for-profit and non-profit industries whose goal is to generate revenues for social and environmental causes (7).
Ms. Mennie and her associates have lobbied extensively with the government for the social economy. They proposed that the government should 1) develop regulations preferential to the establishment of social economy enterprises, 2) provide training to low-skilled people, 3) provide preferential government contracts to such enterprises, and 4) make funds available to establish and support such enterprises. Ms. Mennie was closely involved with the Vancity Plan Institute for Caring Citizenship which was funded by Tides Canada.
Suddenly Maxime Bernier’s push to ‘end corporate welfare’ makes perfect sense. He has made it abundantly clear that subsidizing traditional corporations such as Bombardier or GM is against his philosophy. Clearly, through his association with Ms. Mennie and her involvement in his new party, and his past involvement with the United Nations (8) his focus is social economy and promotion of socially run multi-national co-operatives with the goal of lifting out of poverty the unskilled migrants and non-migrant populations through government support, training and subsidization.
Even the name of Bernier’s new party is now clarified. Many spoke of its socialistic implications: People’s Party of Canada. All is now completely understandable; even Bernier’s support of China (9) is understandable as is his refusal to allow a leadership race for his fledging party.
It is to be hoped that all his 35,000 supporters know what they are signing up for.
There has been a common thread in the global communist movement since 1997 and it is a system that people have heard very little to nothing about. It is called ‘social economy’, an elaborate government-funded sector that produces very little in profits but consumes billions in tax dollars. Through government tax incentives, tax credits, grants, charities, foundations, non-profits, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the government has been siphoning off the taxpayer’s money to fund this social economy. There has been an elaborate money-laundering scheme designed by corporations and their foundations to offset profit margins by re-investing in their foundations, while at the same time lobbying and pushing for governmental policy changes in favour of the social economy. The Tides Foundation, a George Soros-funded organization, refers to “The Hybrid Universe” which is shown in Figure #1. The Hybrid Universe is defined by foundations and businesses bending governments to their will. The social economy is at the very heart of global mass migration. In simplest terms, Canadians are funding their own invasion.
Figure #1: The Hybrid Universe
The Just Society: Liberal 1968 to mid 90s
Under Pierre Trudeau, the mission of a progressive social policy evolved into the goal of creating a “Just Society“. In 1968, Trudeau used the phrase “Just Society” as his campaign slogan. These are the origins of what was to become known as social economy in Canada, a Liberal movement that Pierre Trudeau would become known for. Programs that were initially intended to help our Indigenous People were instead abused by both government elitist and corporations to implement their incremental approach towards their UN Global Compact Agenda 2030. The Just Society was not just at all, but rather a scheme designed by the global elite to sell off Canada’s resources, its people, and flood the country with unskilled cheap labour.
The Social Economy: Liberals 1997 to 2007
In 1997, the Liberal Jean Chrétien government proposed policy changes governing the social economy and by 1999, Paul Martin’s government had implemented these policies through Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). Social economy was introduced into government policy through what was called “Sector Council Programs” consisting primarily of corporations armed with their own agenda and capable of influencing government policy. A 2005 HRSDC report states that “the program remains focused on working towards the achievement of four broad, long-range objectives: Increased industry learning and skills development, more informed and responsive learning to industry needs, enhanced ability to recruit, retain and address human resources needs, [and] reduced barriers to labour mobility.”
As early as 1999, the UN and OAS (Organization of American States) were working on the Global Compact for Sustainable Development (ref). By 2004, Canada jumped on the social economy bandwagon and the Paul Martin government passed the Social Development Act (C-22). It is worthwhile to note that the current Conservative Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer objected to this bill (ref). The Bill broadened the purvey of the Minister of Social Welfare and the many social welfare programs provided by the Federal Government and, ultimately, the taxpayer. In 2016, the OAS/UN affiliation had developed a report entitled “Irregular Migration To/Within the Americas” which laid out social program requirements to accommodate this migratory movement.
The Social Economy: Trudeau Liberals
Since 2015, the Liberal Trudeau government has relaunched and championed social economy once again. This is where the information becomes relevant today since we now have the UN’s Compact for Safe and Orderly migration, which has been signed by the current Canadian government as of December 2018.
The Social Economy and Communism
How is this linked to Communism? On the surface, the mandates within the social economy programs appear to be of benefit to Canadians. However, most of these programs are advocacy programs for Foundations and NGOs working in 3rd world countries. None of these programs are meant to be profitable or offer any financial to return to Canadians, yet are paid for primarily by taxpayers at an estimated cost of $60 billion a year, as shown in figure #2, again provided by the Tides Foundation in 2007. The contribution of this sector to the GDP is less than $3.2 billion. The TOTAL budget in 2007 was $242 Billion, and we spent $60 billion on these worthless programs! (ref)
Figure #2: This shows that the 2007 income sources to non-profits are derived from: 49% Canadian government funding, 8% donations, 5% gifts, 3% corporations, while earning only 35%.
This is definitely an economic sector whereby costs outweigh the returns, especially for taxpayers. Corporations on the other hand and their related foundations are the only ones that benefit through tax incentives and the re-investment of corporate profits into these programs. Further benefits are derived through massive global migrant mobility of unskilled laborers who have been flooding Europe, Canada and the United States at unprecedented levels never witnessed before. Many of these programs service migration and benefit the migrant populations (ref.)(ref.). The social economy programs negatively impact Canadian taxpayers, (who fund these programs) and Canadian workers who are experiencing far less opportunities in full-time employment, with more and more employment emerging in part-time, seasonal work with lower wages and fewer benefits. Canadian youth unemployment is also at an alarming rate of 14.3% with fewer and fewer job openings (ref). Social economy has been implemented to foster global equity, a model for Communism supporting equity, not just within our great nation but expanded globally, whereby western society is financially supporting the third world community through taxation.
This economic model is failing Canada. Our debt is skyrocketing and our economy is on a crash course for recession (ref). The social economy model failed in other countries such as Venezuela (ref), which also possessed extensive social programs and offered multiple subsidies for social causes. With the fall in oil prices, such a social economy became unsustainable.
The Social Economy: Ties to the Peoples Party of Canada
During the summer of 2005, the corporations involved with social economy initiatives began negotiating contracts for their activities in the event the Paul Martin Liberal government fell to the Conservatives (ref). In January 2006, the Conservative government under Stephen Harper came into power. At that time the HRSDC (Human Resources and Social Development Canada) and SSHRC (Social Studies Humanities Research Council) were governed under the Minister of Industry, who was Maxime Berrnier. On March 2006, he published a review of the SSHRC praising the merits of the social economy”(ref).
However, by September of 2006, Harper had defunded the social economy programs and was on record for his opposition to these programs. (ref)(ref)
Despite the defunding, Johanne Mennie, then Deputy Director of HRSDC & SSHRC, and the current Director of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), attended several meetings with the George Soros-funded Tides Foundation of Canada that directly called for government policy interventions to implement the social economy program. One such meeting was on October 19-20, 2006 and was called “Scaling Up the Canadian Social Finance Sector.” (ref)
Attendees also included Edward Jackson, supported by the Desmarais Power Corporation, the World Bank, advisor to the Rockefeller Foundations (ref), and Tim Brodhead, who is a mentor for the Trudeau Foundation. (ref) The connections continue between the who’s who of Liberal Communist society. We will come back to Tides and other foundations again.
Figure #3: This is the Tides Foundation of Canada Meeting October 19-20, 2006 and list of participants. The meeting objective was to scale up finances for the social economy in co-operation with both the HRSDC and SSHRC.
Figure #4: It is interesting to note, the sponsors developed the sustainable development components for Agenda 2030.
In addition, Johanne Mennie participated at a Symposium held on March 26, 2007 at Carleton University called “Program-Related Investments for Foundations, Policy Makers and Non-Profits” where the following was noted: (ref)
“HRSDC Deputy Director Johanne Mennie, who recently chaired a federal advisory committee on community finance, observed that there is a range of policy levers, including tax incentives and regulatory frameworks, that are available to governments at all levels to encourage foundations and endowments to invest in ways that are consistent with their missions.”
Furthermore, on March 26, 2007, Johanne Mennie participated at yet another symposium at Carleton University where presentations were made by Ted Jackson from Tides Foundation Canada, in partnership with HRSDC (ref). Ted Jackson is also president for E.T. Jackson & Associates Ltd., an international management consulting firm that has advised on over $10 billion in investments in over 50 countries, with emphasis on strategic planning and implementation for foundations and agencies. (ref)
George Soros’ Tides Foundation in Canada is currently under investigation by the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA), after members of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) labelled the organization as a “foreign funded” radical group. The organization funneled money through Liberal advocacy groups, particularly those advocating against the Albertan oil industry, and was also implicated in funding “third-parties” during the 2015 election, which led to the fall of the Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party. (Ref) (Ref)
This brings into question: Why were these social economy programs pursued beyond September 2006 when they were defunded by the Harper Government? Exactly how is Johanne Mennie involved with Tides Canada? As Minister of Industry who managed the SSHRC and HRDC, what was Maxime Bernier’s involvement with Tides Foundation of Canada? And with the upcoming 2019 election, is the newly formed People’s Party of Canada (PPC) merely an extension of the Liberal Party of Canada? And what connections does George Soros have to the PPC?
Through his actions, not only did Harper attempt to defund the social economy programs, he also attempted to deal with the funding structures that contributed to the empowerment of these foundations, charities and NGOs. His Economic Action Plan of 2012 called for an investment to restrict the political activities of several charities, including greater public transparency and the extent to which they may be funded by foreign sources. (ref) The Conservatives openly accused Asper, Bronfman, McCain, Bombardier, and Tides Foundation of laundering money for interest groups critical of the oils sands. The Tories were openly critical of charitable funding being used to thwart Canadian interests.(ref)
Harper also cancelled the Sector Council Programs. These were councils and foundations that consisted of corporations within government that were introduced by the Paul Martin Liberal government and that were capable of influencing government policy and driving the social economy agenda.
The future of freedom in Canada is becoming increasing bleak – all in the name of social progress and sustainability. Canada is indeed losing its sovereignty to corporations whose global agenda is employment equity, government deregulation and is coupled with higher taxation in order to fuel mass migration and its social economy mandate. If we don’t learn this lesson from the economic situation in Venezuela, soon we too will be without medical care, homeless living in tents, eating beans, dodging bullets in our streets and using our currency as toilet paper.
George Soros, Johanne Mennie
Yellow Vests of Canada 