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PPN funded the anti-addition, anti-homeless "Vancouver Is Dying" propaganda - used to elect a political neophyte mayor of Vancouver; used by TBA in recent Alberta election.

Back to Lonsdale: model acts (carbon copy legislation distributed to U.S. legislatures to enact neoconservative agendae) are a bane of U.S. politics.

Like ALEC/others, the Cicero Institute churns out model acts including this gem:

Reducing Street Homelessness Act
https://invisiblepeople.tv/private-prisons-for-homeless-criminalization
https://persagen.com/docs/cicero_institute.html