Patrick Basham

Patrick Basham is a former adjunct scholar and senior fellow of the Cato Institute, and the founding Director (in 2006) of the Democracy Institute.[1] Basham was previously the founding director of the Social Affairs Centre at the Canadian Fraser Institute. He has published a number of books and contributed articles to a range of major US newspapers.[1]

Basham studied political science at Carleton University, the University of Houston and University of Cambridge, earning B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees respectively.[2]

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 John Luik, Patrick Basham, and Gio Gori. Social Affairs Unit, December 2006.
  • Gambling with Our Future? The Costs and Benefits of Legalized Gambling, by Patrick Basham and Karen White. Christian Institute, 2002, 64pp
  • Sensible Solutions to the Urban Drug Problem, edited by Patrick Basham. Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2001.
  • Environmentalism and the Market Economy: A Model for a Green Earth (with Dr Kenneth Basham). (1995).

He contributed to the 2004 book Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by David Haugen.

In December 2005 Basham wrote an article for the Washington Times which praised the Canadian Conservative Stephen Harper as "pro-free trade, pro-Iraq war, anti-Kyoto and socially conservative". Harper publicly objected, saying that the description "greatly oversimplifies my positions."[3] Harper went on to form a minority government after the January 2006 election.

References
  1. Cato Institute, Patrick Basham, accessed 8 August 2010
  2. Fraser Institute, Patrick Basham, accessed 16 June 2020
  3. Winnipeg Free Press, 12 December 2005, Harper responds to pro-American label


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