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In 1974, a group of academics and business executives, concerned about big government, founded the Fraser Institute.<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute#cite_note-CBC-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>At the time, there were concerns about the institute's agenda given that one of those who helped set it up, Michael Walker, an economist from the University of Western Ontario, had received financial support from the forestry giant,<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=MacMillan-Bloedel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MacMillan-Bloedel (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">MacMillan-Bloedel</a>. To allay these charges, the Fraser Institute stated that its research priorities would not be determined by its funders but by its staff, that the staff of the institute would not engage in political activity, not its funders, and that its conclusions would not be shaped to favour any political or economic group.<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute#cite_note-CBC-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>.In his book Thinking the unthinkable, Richard Cockett outlined that <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Antony_Fisher" title="Antony Fisher" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Antony Fisher</a>, who founded the <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_of_Economic_Affairs" title="Institute of Economic Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Institute of Economic Affairs</a> (IEA) played a critical role in the development of the Fraser Institute. "On the strength of his reputation with the IEA, he was invited in 1975 to become co-director of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, founded by the Mac blo Canadian businessman <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Boyle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pat Boyle (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pat Boyle</a> in 1974. Fisher let the young director of the Fraser Institute, Dr <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Walker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Walker (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Michael Walker</a>, get on with the intellectual output of the Institute (just as he had given free reign to <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arthur_Seldon" title="Arthur Seldon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Seldon</a> and <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ralph_Harris" title="Ralph Harris" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Harris</a> at the IEA) while he himself concentrated on the fund-raising side," Cockett wrote.<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a>On page 2 of its 2005 Annual Report, the Fraser Institute features a photograph of Michael Walker with US Vice President <a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dick Cheney</a> at the Eisenhower Administration Building, followed by a photograph of Canada's "future Prime Minister"<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_Harper" title="Stephen Harper" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stephen Harper</a> attending the Institute's annual general meeting.
=Canada's two huge logging companies, MacMillan Bloedel and Fletcher Challenge have sued hundreds of citizens, communities, and environmental groups for insulting clearcutting.

W. Thomas Stephens, "Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Boise_Cascade" title="Boise Cascade">Boise Cascade</a>, LLC (paper, forest products and timberland assets) from November 2004 to November 2008. Mr. Stephens served as President and Chief Executive Officer of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=MacMillan_Bloedel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MacMillan Bloedel (page does not exist)">MacMillan Bloedel</a> Limited (forest products) from October 1997 to October 1999 and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Johns_Manville&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Johns Manville (page does not exist)">Johns Manville</a> Corporation (building products) from 1986 to 1996. He has worked in the forestry and building materials industry since 1956." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=W._Thomas_Stephens#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=W._Thomas_Stephens#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.transcanada.com/company/board_directors.html" class="external text" title="http://www.transcanada.com/company/board_directors.html" rel="nofollow">Directors</a>, TransCanada, accessed September 25, 2009.</li>

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