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Alison Creekside Jan 2, 2024

27 minutes into the new year & Canada's 100 highest-paid CEOs have already earned the average worker's annual salary, according to a report from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) carried on CBC.

CBC then cuts to Fraser Institute dude who says reports like this are "apples & oranges" because they fail to include other forms of average worker employee compensation like flexible hours. 🤣 #eattherich

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Gordon J Holtslander Jan 2, 2024

@AlisonCreekside Any journalist that offers Fraser Institute content, their integrity should be flagged the same as Fraser "Flawed, Incoherent" Should they be required to read this aloud to their editor & cohorts? Tax Freedom Day (Fraser Institute as a whole?)
A Flawed, Incoherent, and Pernicious Concept #cdnpoli https://policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National_Office_Pubs/2005/tax_freedom_day.pdf

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Alison Creekside Jan 2, 2024

@pinhman Totally cool that the Fraser Institute, which as a charity does not itself pay taxes, rails against taxes.
The Fraser Institute gives out bursaries to journalists to take their free enterprise "educational program for journalists", covering the journos' economy airfare travel & accommodation.
Here's the 2021 class. The instructor was a community college economics teacher from Arizona.

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Gordon J Holtslander Jan 2, 2024

@AlisonCreekside Fraser study authored by Vincent Geloso, a director of Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), an Atlas Network organization. MEI states "The MEI is an independent public policy think tank" and does not acknowledge is is supported by Atlas #cdnpoli https://web.archive.org/web/20200619024718/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada

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Gordon J Holtslander

@AlisonCreekside If Geloso is director of an entirely independent think tank, why is he the author of piece for an entirely different “independent” think tank. One must “turn off” thought to stop the contradictions. A better term for these orgs is “fountain of ignorance”. All but the willfully ignorant can see these orgs as tools of fear uncertainty and doubt to offer support to ignorance and misinformation.