28 Facts About Warren Kinsella

Warren Kinsella is the founder of the Daisy Consulting Group, a Toronto-based firm that engages in paid political campaign strategy work, lobbying and communications crisis management.

Warren Kinsella is the son of physician and medical ethicist Douglas Warren Kinsella, founder of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research.

Warren Kinsella attended Carleton University from 1980 to 1984, earning a Bachelor of Journalism.

Later, as a lawyer, Warren Kinsella was a partner in the law firm McMillan Binch.

Warren Kinsella left the legal firm in 2002 and co-founded the consulting firm, Navigator.

Warren Kinsella served as a media adviser to opposition leader Jean Chretien's office and as a strategist in the Canadian federal Liberal Party's 1993 election campaign "task force".

Lawrence Martin noted in his book Iron Man that Warren Kinsella was accused by Peter Donolo, Chretien's communications director, of being overtly aggressive and seeing enemies everywhere.

However, Warren Kinsella was a favourite of Aline Chretien, the Prime Minister's wife, which meant that the complaints were ignored.

Warren Kinsella ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in the riding of North Vancouver but was defeated by Reform incumbent Ted White.

In Iron Man, Lawrence Martin noted that Warren Kinsella saw Paul Martin and his followers "as almost much an enemy" as the opposition parties, and favored working against the Martin faction.

Warren Kinsella later admitted to quitting the Liberal Party when then-cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal had his Vancouver South-Burnaby riding association taken over by the Martin forces in November 2002.

Warren Kinsella argued that Justin Trudeau's inner circle had played a role in the ouster of Jean Chretien as Prime Minister.

Quail said he viewed the letter as political interference into civil service affairs, while Dingwall and Warren Kinsella characterized the letter as a request rather than a directive.

Warren Kinsella worked for the Canadian Green Party during July 2019 in the run-up to the 2019 Canadian federal election.

In October 2019, the Globe and Mail reported that Warren Kinsella's consulting firm, Daisy Group, had, according to an anonymous source, been hired by the Conservative Party of Canada to create a campaign attempting to discredit Maxime Bernier and the People's Party of Canada.

On 29 October 2019 Warren Kinsella said on his podcast that he would not reveal the who hired his company, maintaining that it was protected by solicitor-client privilege but stated the campaign should have been disclosed earlier.

Warren Kinsella is heard telling the staff that they need to "draw blood".

In February 2020, Bernier launched a lawsuit against Warren Kinsella alleging defamation by branding Bernier a racist, in relation to the 2019 election.

Warren Kinsella was a long time supporter of Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, and was a fixture in Ontario Liberal Party election campaigns while McGuinty was leader.

The Hill Times stated that Warren Kinsella was the individual that branded Ontario Progressive Conservatives Leader John Tory's promise to publicly fund faith-based schools during the 2007 election "into a Canadian version of Nixon's racist Southern strategy".

Warren Kinsella would apologize for a blog post during the campaign suggesting that Progressive Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod would rather bake cookies than be seen with farm activist Randy Hillier; MacLeod would later use the remark as the humorous title for a cookbook.

Warren Kinsella supported Sandra Pupatello in the 2013 Liberal Party of Ontario leadership convention that chose a successor to McGuinty.

Warren Kinsella was sharply critical of Wynne's campaign during the 2014 Ontario election, and subsequently.

On October 31,2019, the Globe and Mail reported that a spokesperson for Autistics for Autistics, an Ontario Autism advocacy group, threatened litigation against Warren Kinsella after warning Warren Kinsella's Daisy firm over a suspected connection between free media training provided by his firm and the Ontario government led by premier Doug Ford.

Warren Kinsella stated that his work was unrelated with strategic advice and media training provided to Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod and her political staff in March 2018 over the restrictions to the provincial autism program.

Warren Kinsella advised John Tory in the 2003 Toronto mayoral election.

In 1997, Warren Kinsella published the novel Party Favours, a thinly veiled roman a clef about the Chretien government similar to the 1996 American novel Primary Colors.

In March 2019, Warren Kinsella started as a Toronto Sun columnist.