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Not One Of The Fraser Institute's "24 Facts for Voters" in Canada Stands Up to Scrutiny. (dougaldlamont.substack.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Great article!

My one critique would be with when FI is making a comparison between the US on some metric (eg, per capita income 2022)... The argument of "keep in mind Canada was enduring a global pandemic at that time" isn't a very sound counter-point. It was a global pandemic. If you want to say it depressed that number for Canada you have to explain why it didn't depress that number in the USA.

The rest are pretty good. The FI is a fucking joke.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I haven't been able to get deep into this article, and so far I'm not impressed at all.

There's a glaring grammar error of a missing word in the first sentence.

have issuing misleading reports with the purpose of manipulating public opinion.

The last sentence of the next paragraph is a struggle...

as their latest “24 facts for 2024” was, in a column, by Conrad Black, originally published in the National Post.

Okay, I'm being nitpicky, some editing could fix that.

But then the first counter-argument to one of FI's "facts", that Canada's personal income disparity vs the US is stagnating, is weak at best. Saudi Arabia in 2014? What? The global pandemic? Yeah, it was global, it affected Americans too. Donald Trump said it was China? How is that related? 2011 article about Calgary and Edmonton did something similar? So? Weak.

I was hopeful, but I'm not feeling enticed to read on at this point :(