Recently, a friend and ardent advocate for the truth about “climate change” sent me the link to the Provisional list of registered participants (PLOP) to the COP26 festivities just ended in Glasgow. While most of the Provincial Governments sent participants to COP26, Quebec stands out with over 20 attendees whereas Ontario sent only 4. The provincial number of attendees however pales compared to those attending from the Federal Liberal government which includes Trudeau’s Lead Speechwriter as well as his Official Photographer!
It is worth noting from the below chart (posted on the 1616 page PDF file of attendees at COP26) the number of (NGO) “Non-governmental organizations” (1,823) who attended the conference with 14,033 participants. Many of those NGO are “charities”. Now, try to imagine the millions of dollars they spent and why this should be considered a charitable activity?
One assumes the “charitable attendees” were not included in media reports stating: “Canada sent 277 delegates and 17 press aides along for the ride. That’s a lot of emissions – and a lot of taxpayer dollars“. Despite the foregoing, in a search of PLOP many Canadian registered eco-warrior charities did send lots of delegates. The PLOP listing attendees frequently fails to indicate the country associated with individual names but in doing the “ctrl/f” search a number of Canadian charities, etc. are identifiable!
To wit:
Those eco-charities with a few identifiable attendees from Canada included: Environmental Defence, WWF, Sierra Club, David Suzuki Foundation and a new charity established by none other than Bruce Lourie, called; “The Transition Accelerator” (TA) where he is Chairman of the Board! The TA’s aim is, “to support Canada’s transition to a net zero future while solving societal challenges“. Based on their CRA financial filings they have not had to issue a “tax receipt” since their formation as their revenue ($867K) came from other “registered charities” such as the “Ivey Foundation” where Lourie sits as President.
The Ivey Foundation has also handed out grants to Environmental Defence where he spent time as Board Chair and built his relationship with Rick Smith when they coauthored a book. Smith was also an attendee at COP26 but more on him below!
Another attendee of COP26 was IISD (International Institute of Sustainable Development), a Winnipeg based charity which also received funding from the Ivey Foundation. The big money for IISD however comes from the UN, the Canadian Federal government and some from the provinces or province of Manitoba. Total tax receipted funds were a miserly $53,617. (0.2% of gross revenue or enough to cover about 20% of their highest paid employee’s income) out of total revenue of $25.6 million based on their most recent filing with the CRA. IISD appear to have sent at least 12 people to COP26 and will, presumably, claim all their expenses as a “charitable activity”!
The other Canadian entity I was able to identify is a “not-for-profit” named Climate Action Network (CAN-Rac)* who sent at least 30 individuals to COP26. CAN-Rac are a coalition of over 100 organizations which includes Environmental Defence, Sierra Club and the David Suzuki Foundation. CAN-Rac has been known to spin untruths as pointed out in an article yours truly penned over a year ago.
Now, let’s return to Rick Smith who was an attendee of COP26 as head honcho of the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices (CICC), along with one other CICC officer. CICC is the institution created by Catherine McKenna when she held the Ministerial post of Environment and Climate Change and handed out $20 million of our tax dollars to create it. Presumably Smith is not only happy with his presidential position but also pleased to have reconnected with Bruce Lourie who is one of the many members of the Board of Directors.
As is obvious, Canada once again had the highest number of attendees at COP26 with 277 attendees! If one does the simple math of dividing the Total Party attendees by the number of countries the average is approximately 110 per country. Canadian attendees were two- and one-half times that average which suggests the Canadian contingent emitted 250% more CO2 per attendee than any other country in attendance!.
Sure, doesn’t appear our Trudeau led Government are practicing what they preach to us minions!
It appears to be an unmitigated “PLOP”!
*CAN-Rac also had a former Board member in attendance in the form of the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guilbeault.
Parker Gallant Energy Perspectives 
“Canada sent 277 delegates and 17 press aides along for the ride. That’s a lot of emissions – and a lot of taxpayer dollars“.
Will someone be filing an FOI to find out the cost to Canadian taxpayers?
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Cop26 was a United Nations conference and a massive media/propaganda event. With respect to emissions reductions, all the “decisions” were made by countries before the event when they submitted their five-year plans. The UN claims that global emissions must decline by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, but according to the plans (which are rarely completely followed) emissions would increase by 13.7%! The media of course ignored that fact. As to decisions on actions at the UN conference, there were three. The Parties agreed that they would submit updated five-year plans before the end of 2022. The wealthier countries agreed that they would increase their collective contribution to funding the mitigation and adaptation efforts of the poorer countries to meet the previously-established target of $100 billion per year (but there was no agreement on what any one country would pay or receive). Finally, the countries agreed in principle that the portion of this funding devoted to adaptation to climate changes should double, but no specific figures were cited for the amount that would be raised for adaptation collectively or by individual countries. That’s it. As a treaty-making event, it accomplished essentially nothing, but it was probably a propaganda success. As Parker notes, it only took almost 40,000 attendees to accomplish this. I wonder how many will attend COP27 in Cairo next year?
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