Your favourite Canadian right-wing “think-tank” is back at it again. This time, they have released a report justifying the massive pay disparity between CEOs and workers.

The Fraser Institute is known for these kinds of arguments. They regularly side with big corporations and release misleading research to rally people in favour of corporations and the 1%.

The new report, entitled “The Truth About CEO and Worker Compensation” is a glaring example. The author tells us – those of us who see the CEO-worker pay gap as unjust – that we lack the “nuances” to understand the “correct depiction.”

His report boils down to three points. 1) CEOs deserve such exorbitant levels of pay because there is a high demand for their skills. 2) People don’t really care if CEOs get massive payouts. 3) Studies comparing pay between CEOs and workers are flawed.

The Fraser Institute would prefer if we calculated the difference between CEO and workers pay differently. The correct depiction, according to them, would mean that all managers are compared to average workers. More simply put, the Fraser Institute just wants that number to be lower.

They are willing, by any methodology no matter how suspect, to obscure the massive inequality witnessed in this country.

Of course, none of this comes as a surprise. The Fraser Institute gets millions of dollars in dark money to do just this. Corporations give them money and they produce research that is overwhelmingly favourable to corporate interests.

Fortunately, many Canadians are all too aware of the Fraser Institute’s shady ways. Unfortunately, Canada’s mainstream media, continues to take the Fraser Institute’s research as fact.

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