Let's see what kind of source this "think tank" is before we go ahead and buy the media's story.
found this online...seems like a bogus group with other hidden motives for sure....
Ms. Norine MacDonald, Q.C.
President and lead field researcher
Senlis Council Afghanistan
Kandahar City
Ms. Mcdonald recently said in a conference:
“The Senlis Council is a project of the Mercator Fund, which is in turn a project of the Network of European Foundations (NEF). I’m the president of the Gabriel Foundation, which is a member of NEF and from which the Mercator Fund’s money comes. I’m managing director of the Mercator Fund, and I’m the president and founder and lead field researcher of the Senlis Council and Senlis Afghanistan – so I have many different hats. I spend about 80 per cent of my time in Afghanistan – basically I live there.”
“NEF is an operational platform primarily committed to developing operational cooperation between foundations in Europe but also open to collaboration with the public and private sectors in developing its initiatives. Its areas of intervention to promote systemic social change include: migration, European citizenship, support the European integration process, youth empowerment, global European projects.”
Big deal but still don’t know the real players behind the organizations. OK she’s connected to the NEF , President of Gabriel Fund, the funding source for Mercator, managing director of Mercator, president and founder of Senlis council and senlis Afghanistan.
So she is Norine Macdonald ibn senlis Afstan ibn senlis council ibn mercator ibn gabriel ibn NEF al-Rashid, sounds pretty straight forward. A one man show or front.
Not commenting on her point of views, seems pretty much a one man band though.
But we are still left with an omnipotent Vancouver lawyer, with offices is London, Paris, Rio, ... and a shadowy network of European foundations hiding the source of funding, and quite possibly, the source of their universal acceptance by Canadian journalism.