Patrick Basham is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute

Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the largest privately held...

, and the founding Director (in 2006) of the Democracy Institute

Democracy Institute

The Democracy Institute is a think-tank based in Washington, DC and London. It was founded in 2006.On its website the Institute says that "We commonly address public policy in comparative terms. Many of our research projects, therefore, have a transatlantic or international flavor...

. Basham was previously the founding director of the Social Affairs Centre at the Canadian Fraser Institute

Fraser Institute

The Fraser Institute is a Canadian think tank. It has been described as politically conservative and right-wing libertarian and espouses free market principles...

, and formerly Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He has published a number of books and contributed articles to a range of major US newspapers. He contributed to the 2004 book Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints

Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints

Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints is a book, in the Opposing Viewpoints series, presenting selections of contrasting viewpoints on four central questions about the Iraq War and its aftermath: whether it was justified; what role the U.S...

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In December 2005 Basham wrote an article for the Washington Times which praised the Canadian Conservative Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper

Stephen Joseph Harper is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became prime minister when his party formed a minority government after the 2006 federal election...

 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

Canadian federal election, 2006

The 2006 Canadian federal election was held on January 23, 2006, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 39th Parliament of Canada. The Conservative Party of Canada won the greatest number of seats: 40.3% of seats, or 124 out of 308, up from 99 seats in 2004, and 36.3% of votes:...

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Basham studied political science at Carleton University

Carleton University

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, the University of Houston

University of Houston

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 and University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, earning B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees respectively.

Books

• Butt Out! How Philip Morris Burned Ted Kennedy, the FDA & the Anti-Tobacco Movement, Democracy Institute
  Democracy Institute
  The Democracy Institute is a think-tank based in Washington, DC and London. It was founded in 2006.On its website the Institute says that "We commonly address public policy in comparative terms. Many of our research projects, therefore, have a transatlantic or international flavor...
  
  , April 2009.
• Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade, by John Luik
  John Luik
  John C. Luik is a senior fellow of the Democracy Institute. He was previously "a Senior Associate of the Niagara Institute with responsibility for its work in public policy and its Values and Organizational Development programmes." From 1977 to 1990 he taught philosophy and ethics at two Canadian...
  
  , Patrick Basham, and Gio Gori
  Gio Batta Gori
  Gio Batta Gori is an epidemiologist and fellow with the Health Policy Center in Bethesda, Maryland where he specializes in risk assessment and scientific research....
  
  . Social Affairs Unit
  Social Affairs Unit
  The Social Affairs Unit is a right-leaning think tank in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1980 as an offshoot of the Institute of Economic Affairs, it publishes books on a variety of social issues...
  
  , December 2006.
• Gambling with Our Future? The Costs and Benefits of Legalized Gambling, by Patrick Basham and Karen White. The Christian Institute, 2002, 64pp
• Sensible Solutions to the Urban Drug Problem, edited by Patrick Basham. Vancouver: Fraser Institute
  Fraser Institute
  The Fraser Institute is a Canadian think tank. It has been described as politically conservative and right-wing libertarian and espouses free market principles...
  
  , 2001.
• Environmentalism and the Market Economy: A Model for a Green Earth (with Dr Kenneth Basham). (1995).

External links

• The Guardian
  The Guardian
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  , Patrick Basham
• Patrick Basham and John Luik, Daily Telegraph, 26 November 2006, Four big, fat myths