Given that several recent opinions have come under fire for the authors' affiliations and conflicts of interest, I would like to disclose my own and encourage others to do the same... calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…
My only sources of income this year have been 1) my salary at the UofC, and 2) book royalties likely totaling less than $1000. The only contact that I have ever had with any politicians of any party has been after the publication of my opinions on bill 30 and privatization....
In fact, I only moved to Alberta three years ago and published pieces that were critical of privatization well before ever coming to Alberta.
Possible ghost-writing of opinions has also been raised. To be clear, I've written every single word of any of the opinions I've written and @UbakaOgbogu and I have written every single word of the ones that we've co-authored.
The nature of that contact was 1) emails to schedule my appearance on a publicly-available facebook live and podcast, and 2) a zoom call to briefly discuss bill 30 in advance of a press release that quoted me and a meeting where members of the press could ask me about bill 30.
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