Think Tank Struggles For Legitimacy?

The Fraser Institute struggling? Hardly. But if there’s a half-assed struggling Canadian wannabe to the USA’s Discovery Institute it has to be the Fraser Institute. Passing themselves off as a “Think Tank”, this thoughtless tub dispenses everything from Ralph Klein wisdoms to an annual report on schools in Alberta. Undoubtedly, the Fraser Tub doesn’t do it for nothing and sure as hell elements within Ralph’s old dingdong crowd arrange for taxpayers to put up the cash to have the Fraser’s anal oracles tell the world that the Fraser’s research says all the private schools in Alberta are doing sweller than all them public institutes. Damned if they didn’t do it again. And where else but in Alberta will there be a boot-drool media response as the “righteous” forth brigade suck it in an blow it out their grist mill in a fashion that’d make the Devil himself stand in open mouthed admiration.
As for the Fraser’s “Report Card” on Alberta schools, teacher’s federations condemn Fraser’s “report card” as being “seriously misleading….full of unwarranted distortions”. No kidding! The report card has an agenda folks; it’s predetermined purpose is solely to insure ongoing taxpayer support for right wing educational institutes….and the next generation of God only knows what.
So what? Well take a bit of time and read a dated view on the subject of “think tanks” –

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy/ConservThinkTanks.html

and I really don't take the Fraser Institute lightly. Here's another must read -

http://www.yourmedia.ca/library_articles/041028_gutstein_fraser.html

and oh, a little off topic but still quite topical -

http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/DeSmogBlog%20note%20on%20the%20fraser%20institute.pdf

Know thine enemy.

Finally, lets give a little credit where it’s due; the Fraser Institute is where our very own Governor of Canada’s New Government held his one and only real job….at least he was issued paycheques indicating employment of some kind.
What’daya think? Is it possible the Governor really does have a hidden agenda? You bet your aunt fanny. But he's just a tiny bit of a cog in the machinery that's grinding away in the background. In Canada that translates to taxpayers dollars funding political outhouses the likes of the Fraser Institute.
I wonder if Canada's New Government has payed for Fraser Wisdoms? I mean other than environmental distortions.