TRUDEAU'S HYPOCRISY ON FOREIGN FUNDING

  DIANE FRANCIS:  Liberals made a huge fuss when some right-wing American groups and individuals financially supported the Freedom Convoy and imposed the Emergencies Act, which treated the protesters as if they were insurrectionists.

That overreach is in stark contrast to the indifference shown toward the revelations last summer that, between 2003 and 2019, a collection of foreign entities spent $1.28 billion on “Canadian-based environmental initiatives,” which included work to impede Canadian energy development.

Roughly two-thirds of the money was earmarked for Canadian environmental organizations and the rest went to “Canadian-based environmental initiatives” in the United States, according to research compiled by the Alberta government’s Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns.