Beccy, why you would quote anything from British Columbia's Fraser Institute as something to lend credence to your position is beyond me, unless of course you share their sentiments.

Some viewpoints from the hallowed halls of the Fraser Institute over the years:

One FI representative suggested that the best way to save the whales was through private ownership, involving electronic corrals to contain the whales in the same manner as cattle. And after the Exxon Valdez disaster, the FI proposed the private ownership of the oceans themselves as the only way to responsibly manage this resource, and reduce the occurrence of such incidents in the future.

Walter Block was the senior economist until 1984 and remained a director in the FI until 1991. He condemned minimum wage as "immoral" and protecting people with low productivity. Such peoples, unworthy of even $1 per hour, were identified by Block (in 1983) as "uneducated, unskilled, alcoholics, unreliable workers, teenagers, native peoples, downtrodden ethnic and national peoples, the physically and mentally handicapped."

He was also infamous for stating that sexual abuse or discrimination from male employers on female office staff are "part of the package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job," and that child labour is an institution with a "long and glorious history." He has since gone on to an influential career as a University professor in the United States.

Then again, our current wacko government here in BC is busy adopting wacko Fraser Institute policies with a vengeance, including recent legislation to bring back child labour.....Whoop de do.....