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Patrick Basham is a former adjunct scholar and senior fellow of the
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, and the founding Director (in 2006) of the Democracy Institute.
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Patrick Basham
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Basham was previously the founding director of the Social Affairs Centre at the Canadian
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. He has published a number of books and contributed articles to a range of major US newspapers. Basham studied political science at
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, the
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and
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, earning B.A. and M.A. degrees from the former institutions. Basham has claimed he holds a PhD from the
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; however, he withdrew from the university without gaining the qualification. Issues with his credentials and academic claims have been highlighted in ''
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''.


Controversy

In December 2005 Basham wrote an article for the ''
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'' which praised the Canadian Conservative
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as "pro-free trade, pro-Iraq war, anti-Kyoto and socially conservative". Harper publicly objected, saying that the description "greatly oversimplifies my positions." Harper went on to form a minority government after the January 2006 election. During the
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, Basham made comments supporting the Trump campaign's false claims of electoral fraud in an article he authored for the ''
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'', a middle-market British tabloid newspaper. Throughout the campaign, the ''Daily Express'' published polls commissioned with Basham's Democracy Institute showing that Trump would win with a landslide victory.


Books

* ''Butt Out! How Philip Morris Burned Ted Kennedy, the FDA & the Anti-Tobacco Movement'', Democracy Institute, April 2009. * ''Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade'', by
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, Patrick Basham, and Gio Gori.
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, December 2006. * ''Gambling with Our Future? The Costs and Benefits of Legalized Gambling'', by Patrick Basham and Karen White.
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, 2002, 64pp * ''Sensible Solutions to the Urban Drug Problem'', edited by Patrick Basham. Vancouver:
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, 2001. * ''Environmentalism and the Market Economy: A Model for a Green Earth'' (with Kenneth Basham). (1995). He contributed to the 2004 book ''Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints'', edited by David Haugen.


References


External links

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* Patrick Basham and John Luik, ''
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'', 26 November 2006
Four big, fat myths
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