[R-G] Elections Canada to investigate anti-Kyoto Group

[Anthony Fenton]

SourceWatch Key to Inquiries Launched into Canadian Climate Skeptics'  
Election Activities
Topics: democracy | environment | front groups | global warming |  
international
Source: Canwest News Service, February 17, 2008
http://www.prwatch.org/node/7013

A Canadian global warming skeptics group, Friends of Science (FoS),  
is facing several investigations into a radio advertising blitz it  
ran in the 2006 election campaign, which criticized the then-Liberal  
government's support for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Funding  
for FoS came in part from a University of Calgary trust account.  
Canwest reported that "facing embarrassing questions raised by the  
online SourceWatch.org encyclopedia, the university conducted an  
internal audit over the past year which concluded that its trust  
account had been used to 'support a partisan viewpoint on climate  
change.'" While the university closed the trust account, it has  
refused to make its full audit report public. However, further  
inquiries are underway. "We are contacting Elections Canada to advise  
it of the review and why it is under way, and we will follow up with  
Elections Canada once it is complete," Roman Cooney, the university's  
vice-president of external relations, wrote in an email to Canwest.  
Federal Liberal member of Parliament Mark Holland said that he wants  
parliamentary hearings into the FoS election campaign.

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