Thursday 3 October 2019

Manning Centre a primary backer for series of anti-Liberal Facebook pages

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Replying to @FloryGoncalves and 49 others
David Raymond Amos 
Surprise Surprise Surprise

Douglas Fowler
Good on the Manning Center 

David Raymond Amos
So you say Methinks many of peoplekind will soon disagree with you N'esy Pas?  


 https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/10/manning-centre-primary-backer-for.html






https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/manning-centre-proud-1.5307111



Manning Centre a primary backer for series of anti-Liberal Facebook pages











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 Michael Harris
The Squeaking mouse returns, have not the wheatbillies and oilbillies of this Country yet realized that this guy is a loser..The Reform Party, the Canadian Alliance, The Conservatives ( a name essentially stolen by Peter MacKay and Stephen Harper when the real Progressive Conservatives were down and out) Poor ole Preston, I can imagine on the 22nd of October he'll rue another election where a million bucks wasted on another defeat vaporized from his rec room self named organization... Your Irrelevant and the Con Party is just using you...Retire already!


Dawn MacNeill
Reply to @Michael Harris: Wolf in sheep's clothing that fella.
Douglas Fowler 
Reply to @Michael Harris: Wow! Michael Haris isi back! Where have you been? WE have missed your rad call views!
Douglas Fowler 
Reply to @Michael Harris: Why do you fear Preston soooo much?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Michael Harris: I remember you too. Do you recall in 2003 my brother in law's law firm partner Brian Mosher as the VP of the PC Party in the Maritimes helped his buddy MacKay stab David Orchard in the back and merge with Harper's party? Many conservatives in Fundy Royal well understand why I have run against Harper's little lawyer buddy Rob Moore and all the others 3 times now N'esy Pas?


















Chris Spiers
Someone has to tell the Canadian Public the truth about the Liberals and Trudeau.
We know we won't find it on this LPC PR site


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Chris Spiers: Oh so true
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Chris Spiers: Please Google David Raymond Amos Federal Court File No T-1557-15 in order to find my blog containing my Statement of Claim against the Queen Then scroll down to statement number 83 of a lawsuit I filed when Harper was the Prime Minister and Jody Wilson Raybould and her minions maliciously defended until she was dismissed.















Peter Mals
Canada Proud and Canada Strong promote all kinds of racism...


Chris Spiers 
Reply to @Peter Mals: What do they promote? Tell us what is R.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Peter Mals: So you say EH?

















Douglas Fowler
Scheer will address the horrid practice of BC using the Pacific Ocean as a toilet bowl .


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Douglas Fowler: Whereas I ran in the provincial election in 2018 and am on the ballot in Fundy Royal right now and your hero Scheer was in New Brunswick making an announcement not many miles from me today methinks I should relate that the most interesting revelation within this article to my Fake Left political foes and I is as follows N'esy Pas?

"The Manning Centre previously supported the network's New Brunswick branch with a $7,000 donation during the 2018 provincial election there."











David Novak
Preston Manning...isn't that the guy whose Reform protest party said their MPs wouldn't take government pensions...and then they did? Isn't Manning the guy who said he wouldn't take the housing benefit as opposition leader....and then did?

Isn't this the politician who whispered about elites in the Liberals...but came from his own family political dynasty.

There isn't a single word in this post that isn't true. Do I need to cite CBC articles to prove this?


Douglas Fowler
Reply to @David Novak: Isnt Trudeau the one who said he would balance the budget this yr?
Isnt Trudeau the one who said he would never use Omnibus Bills and did?
Dawn MacNeill 
Reply to @David Novak: Isn't the Manning center where they were caught on video plotting the undermining of Mayor Nenshi? That an upstanding fella he is eh?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @David Novak: Well put sir 
 


Douglas Fowler
The journalist's Union, Unifor, has spent $1,500,000 of union dues on anti Conservative propaganda. Journalists arent biased are they????


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Douglas Fowler: Methinks everybody knows they are the most biased of all and always were. Trust that I had quite a hoedown at the Dalton Lecture last week in Fat Fred City Trust that I strongly doubt what i said to Emily Bell et al will ever be aired on the airwaves that all Canadian citizens own N'esy Pas?















Eric Giesbrecht
Awesome , Justin has tried so hard to shut everyone down who doesn't follow his agenda and yet there are those who stand up and still tell the truth unlike the other medias who just sell what they are told to sell


Peter Mals 
Reply to @Eric Giesbrecht: "Those who stand up and still tell the truth..." lololololololol


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Peter Mals: Methinks you won't find this so funny N'esy Pas?

https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/10/manning-centre-primary-backer-for.html














Bertrum G.Gruff
skewed Con logic
- cut gun control in the face of rising mass shootings
- expand dirty crude export in the face of warming oceans and melting glaciers


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Bertrum G.Gruff : Methinks you are being a little redundant with your Fake Left spin today However to be fair I must admit that you are a bit of a success in securing the "Most Likes" N"esy Pas? 
 


Al Anderson
Good...Can't get enough anti Trudeau.....


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Al Anderson: Welcome to the Circus



















Douglas Fowler
Good news! About time that some group started to get the truth out! Go Manning!


David Raymond Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Douglas Fowler: Go figure where the truth is

https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Douglas Fowler: "Proof please! Or is this the usual hot air?"

Methinks we shall know in a few minutes N'esy Pas? 


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Douglas Fowler: Methinks at least CBC and I know the truth about you N'esy Pas? 














Bertrum G.Gruff
Harper's hidden agenda's were easy to predict- corporate profits
Reformer Scheer's agenda is just chilling - cuts to gun control


Douglas Fowler 
Reply to @Bertrum G.Gruff : The old, tired and wrong rhetoric about hidden agendas. Surprised someone is so far behind the political curve!

Mia Stalling 
Reply to @Bertrum G.Gruff :
The puppeteer is still pulling the strings

David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Douglas Fowler: Methinks the same can be said of you N'esy Pas? 

David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @mia stalling: YUP
 












David Raymond Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise


Douglas Fowler 
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Good on the Manning Center


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Douglas Fowler: So you say

Methinks many of peoplekind will soon disagree with you N'esy Pas?
















Tom Clarke
Manning Centre a primary backer for series of anti-Liberal Facebook pages...along with 70% of Canada 


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Tom Clarke: Thats not news















Awistoyus Nahasthay
Pretty sl easy, but what else would you expect from pretson manning?


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Awistoyus Nahasthay: I would expect nothing less 
 

Richard Arkell
Reply to @Richard Arkell: *what a shame


David Raymond Amos  
Reply to @Richard Arkell: It happens to me all the time
















Tom Clarke
Yawn...where is the tides foundation and the Clinton foundation when your ship is sinking liberals?


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Tom Clarke: Look around
















Bertrum G.Gruff
was this a Canadian value?
Harper sold off control of Canada's wheat distribution infrastructure- to the Saudis


David Raymond Amos  
Reply to @Bertrum G.Gruff : YUP

















Robert Morris
Manning and harper are still very much in control of scheer and the reformacons..
.

David Raymond Amos   
Reply to @Robert Morris: Methinks everybody knows that In fact Scheer admits it and that is why so many of Trudeaus beloved peoplekind refer to the former Speaker as Harper 2.0 N'esy Pas?



















Bertrum G.Gruff
so-
exactly how does Manning Centre (100% political) continue to enjoy "charity" tax exemption?


David Raymond Amos   
Reply to @Bertrum G.Gruff : Methinks folks should Google my name and that of the Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillie the CRA's current boss if they truly care about taxation N'esy Pas?

















Rod Begin
Truth hurts, thank god for social media and outside sources, we’d have never heard about Black Face if it were not for Time Magazine the subsided media was prepared to bury the story.


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Rod Begin: Methinks folks should simply google my name if they wish to study the awful truth N'esy Pas?















Steven Scott
Reformacons are alive and well in the conservative party, preston you are past your due date .....


David Raymond Amos  
Reply to @Steven Scott: Methinks Harper and Scheer will carry Manning's Tiki Torch for many more years to come N'esy Pas?

Steven Scott
Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
I think scheer will be replaced as leader and will disappear from politics, harper will remain behind the scenes constantly trying to have Canada changed to his ideologies .....


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Steven Scott: I agree However methinks Scheer has secured his place as a team player Hence his lucrative future is secure as well just like Iggy's is byway of Mr Soros et al N'esy Pas?
















Dave Singh
Preston's back!..... lending and promoting his retrograde, largely irrelevant policies of yesteryear.


Douglas Fowler
Reply to @Dave Singh: Good on him. Finally we get the true story of Blackface


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Dave Singh: Methinks that is just one of the many things Manning does that peoplekind fail to appreciate N'esy Pas?



















Mark O'Connell
Never voting lib or con again. Its an exercise in futility. Green Machine


Douglas Fowler
Reply to @Mark O'Connell : Greens are a one trick pony!


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Mark O'Connell : Dream on Methinks many folks in Fundy Royal clearly don't agree with you N'esy Pas?


Mark O'Connell
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Some are satisfied with the ongoing fleecing by both parties. That's what sheep are for


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Mark O'Connell : I believe we met in 2004 correct?

















David Magner (YYC)
And just last week Manning was in the news saying he thought that the election would be devisive. Guess he wants to ensure that it is by buying ads that promote his region's interests over those of the nation.


Mark O'Connell 
Reply to @David Magner (YYC): Oil still owns them


David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Mark O'Connell : Of course















Ben Smyth
No surprise there. That's where the robocalls voter suppression scheme was concieved, and where semenars by American voter suppression experts were given to instruct the membership how to carry through with the scheme. The Manning center is the conseravative party in all but name. It's a sham to get around election spending rules.


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @Ben Smyth: Methinks everybody knows that but the Fake Left are no better N'esy Pas? 


Keith Rodgers
Really, and Pro Socialist Groups and American Billionaires isnt Pushing Trudeauism and anti oil. Boo Hoo.....What???? We all want it to be one sided???Really you bunch of Hypocrites.


David Raymond Amos 
Reply to @keith rodgers: I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir
 






Manning Centre a primary backer for series of anti-Liberal Facebook pages

Centre funded third-party groups pushing pro-energy sector, anti-Trudeau videos

 

Christian Paas-Lang · The Canadian Press ·




Preston Manning, founder and president of the Manning Centre, arrives for morning sessions at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. His organization gave a total of $312,450 to a network of related third-party advertising groups that operate on Facebook and Instagram. (Justin Tang/Canadain Press)

The Manning Centre is a driving financial force behind a network of anti-Liberal Facebook pages pumping out political messaging and memes during the federal election campaign.

The organization, launched in 2005 by Reform Party founder Preston Manning, gave a total of $312,450 to a network of related third-party advertising groups that operate on Facebook and Instagram.

In most cases, the centre was the sole donor listed by those groups in disclosure forms filed with Elections Canada.



The bulk of the Manning Centre's contributions — $240,500 — went to Canada Strong and Proud, the network's national politics-focused page.

That page is affiliated with a series of provincial pages, including New Brunswick Proud, Nova Scotia Proud, NL Strong and Quebec Fier — all of which got Manning Centre funding.

Alberta Proud, BC Strong and Ontario Strong are also part of the family of organizations. The various groups often post and share similar contents and ads.
Confusingly, those groups have no affiliation with Ontario Proud, Canada Proud or B.C. Proud, which are similar but separate anti-Liberal groups set up and run by Jeff Ballingall, a former Conservative political staffer and media figure.

Several of the provincially focused groups have conducted robocall and mass automated text campaigns over the past two years, including the "Sue From Ontario Strong" text campaign from June.

And since late July, Canada Strong and Proud has spent more than $103,000 on Facebook ads, with most of that spending happening before the election campaign began formally on Sept. 11. It reported just $7,441 in campaign-period expenses in its recent disclosure to Elections Canada, with the provincial affiliates also spending up to a few thousand dollars each.




Think tank is 'balancing that message out'


This is the first time Canada Strong and Proud and most of its sister organizations have been required to publish details of their financial backing.

Requests for comment sent to several of the groups were not returned.

Troy Lanigan, president of the Manning Centre, said in an interview Wednesday he was thrilled his organization had the resources to help broadcast a stronger conservative message during the campaign.


A screengrab from one of the anti-Justin Trudeau videos posted to the Facebook page run by Canada Strong and Proud. (Facebook)

Lanigan said the balance in third-party advertising between centre-left and centre-right groups traditionally has been heavily weighted to the former's advantage. Labour unions and environmentalist groups combined are strongly outspending centre-right advocacy groups in this election as well.

Lanigan said part of the Manning Centre's goal for the funding, as a group that supports conservatives, was "balancing that message out."
"The ratios will still be big, I think you will see centre-left groups in the country still vastly outspend centre-right groups in third-party advertising. But what's really encouraging is, I think, centre-right groups are fighting back, they're not just lying down," Lanigan said.

Pro-oil sector videos released


Canada Strong and Proud's first big chunk of spending was on a video encouraging Canadians to be proud of the oil-and-gas sector in the country, though it has recently switched to a more narrow, personalized critique of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau during the formal campaign period.

"Obviously as a western-based organization, I think some of the pro-energy messages resonate with Manning [Centre] supporters," Lanigan said.

He added the centre had chosen to support the linked Proud groups because of their reach and past success in gaining national attention.
"These are groups that were on the radar, and had our attention, and were looking for support," he said. But the Manning Centre was not looking to micromanage their message, Lanigan added.

The Manning Centre previously supported the network's New Brunswick branch with a $7,000 donation during the 2018 provincial election there.

Canada Strong and Proud and its affiliated groups are among a host of digital advocacy groups that have embraced a new, meme-driven type of political action during this election period, creating messages for others to spread.

Lanigan said he wanted to take advantage of clever advocacy and groups that have been "smart with limited resources."

He said it came back to the imbalance in spending between groups like Unifor — which has spent around $1.3 million so far this election — and right-leaning groups like his own.

"We'll be outgunned, we'll be out-resourced, but we're not lying down. And that's been a huge sea-change from what it was in 2015."


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