David Clinton- What’s Hiding Inside Canada’s Non-Profit Sector?
According to Statistics Canada, non-profit institutions serving households providing new-construction apartments in 2024 invested a total of $1.041 billion across Canada. That number has been growing steadily from $360 million in 2016. It’s reasonable to assume that around 60 percent of that money comes from government sources. Related data shows us that in 2023, Canadian community non-profits spent $6.3 billion on all “development and housing” projects.
Greed and rent-seeking? probably about half of the NGO serve as nothing more than money laundering organizations, where the government gives them money, they skim 10 to 30 percent, and then pass it to the next group.
It’s fairly well known that largest sector in Canada’s economy is government services, which account for over 23% of the workforce and nearly 50% of job growth in the past 5 years.
What people don’t know is that the Trudeau government “invested” over three Trillion (with a “T”) dollars in NGOs and non-profit organizations over 9 years. Not all of those are located in Canada. This was a way to direct money at social engineering programs and friendly organizations without oversight. There is no public tender process for NGOs, and the government rarely announces grants that aren’t connected to voting issues.
This unaccounted spending marks the largest transfer of wealth in this nation’s history. You can also be certain that not all voters would be happy about who’s getting the money, and for what. This includes spending on transgender activism, 2SLGBTQQIA++ advocacy, Net Zero lobbyists, education and “peace” initiatives in countries most people haven’t heard of, and the award of contracts to deliver social services people don’t really want to deliver – like special funding programs for refugees, recruiting initiatives for temporary foreign workers, and “safe injection” programs for Fentanyl users.
Even relatively anodyne-sounding programs like “affordable” housing initiatives rarely produce any tangible results, but do account for a lot of money disappearing.
Before launching my own business, I spent some time job searching, and found that the number of positions at non-profits outnumber those in all other sectors, including Fintech, AI development, and Human Resources.