Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre comments on the finance committee’s WE Charity affair study, November 16, 2020. Still image courtesy CPAC/YouTube. Erin O’Toole is out as Conservative leader. After a disappointing 2021 election result in which the Conservatives failed to pick up any new seats, and a muddled response to the
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Canadian Dimension: More fibs from the Fraser Institute
Fraser’s typical line is to depict Canada’s economic order as some sort of progressive spending frenzy which needs to be countermanded by severe austerity. This is not true. Image by Canadian Dimension. In Canada, there are several major right wing think tanks, which generally enjoy favourable coverage from the mainstream
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks as he participates in the PC Party leadership debate in Ottawa on Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Photo courtesy City News. On Monday, Matthew Lau, a right-wing writer who works for the Fraser Institute and Montreal Economic Institute, wrote a piece titled “Conservatives are wooing unions
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