Oil money has also contributed to the network of Proud groups across Canada, which have been linked to Ballingall’s Ontario Proud.2 Elections records in New Brunswick show that the Proud organization in that province — which was founded by a former New Brunswicker resident in Calgary — was funded during the 2018 provincial election by the Manning Centre (the respected think tank founded by Reform Party founder Preston Manning) and the Modern Miracle Network, a Calgary-based non-profit corporation spearheaded by Michael Binnion, a petroleum CEO who tirelessly promotes the industry and attacks its critics on social media Binnion, who tried unsuccessfully to launch a fracking industry in Quebec, is reported to have raised money for Quebec Fier, a similar Quebec Facebook group that runs ads attacking federal and provincial Liberals. Binnion is on the board of the Manning Centre.