Patrick Basham is a former adjunct scholar and senior fellow of the

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, and the founding Director (in 2006) of the

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Patrick Basham
accessed 8 August 2010 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

; 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

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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'',

, 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:

, 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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