Lansing, principal, chairman and chief executive officer of the Westminster Funds, replaced Armey as the organization’s chairman. Dick Armey, who served as the organization’s chairman until a dispute between the two men led Armey to resign in December 2012. In 2010, Newsweek called FreedomWorks “one of the driving forces in Tea Party politics” and Kibbe “one of its masterminds.” Kibbe built the group’s tea party persona along with former Texas Rep. Matt Kibbe is the president and chief executive of the parent advocacy organization, FreedomWorks Inc. It’s a project of FreedomWorks Inc., a conservative 501(c)(4) advocacy group that helped foster the tea party movement. The Liberal government approval of Trans Mountain would provide Alberta oil producers with a larger export outlet to the British Columbia coast, and secure Alberta’s support of Trudeau’s national emissions plan.Political leanings: Conservative/tea partyįreedomWorks for America is a super PAC formed in July 2011. “There is no spin you can put on this that would be positive.”Īt the heart of the centrist Trudeau’s plans for the economy and environment was a bargain with Alberta, Canada’s energy province. “A lot was riding on the energy file,” Thomas said. In short, they left him vulnerable to bleeding disappointed supporters on both his right and left, said Paul Thomas, professor emeritus at University of Manitoba. The day’s events amplified criticism that Trudeau has failed to produce a regulatory system in which oil pipelines stand a chance of approval and undermined the PM’s ambitions to reduce emissions. The Federal Court of Appeal overturned on Thursday the Liberal government’s 2016 approval to expand Trans Mountain, a critical pipeline to link Canadian crude with foreign markets, followed hours later by Alberta’s tit-for-tat withdrawal from Trudeau’s climate plan. FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers questions from the media in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 8, 2018.

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