Yeah, the problem with the Fraser Institute is they know exactly what they're doing by being misleading and in many cases want people to come to the wrong conclusion. The line between that and outright lying isn't all that big because the end goal is the same; to mislead people.
A good example was the "96% of jobs created since the pandemic have been public sector jobs" that they were going on about a couple of years ago. They knew that by using that phrase ("since the pandemic"), people would naturally think that they were talking about the job creation numbers during the recovery phase. But instead, they were using pre-pandemic as a baseline and using imprecise language to generate the reaction that they wanted.
So what is a totally normal phenomenon in basically any country during and immediately after a recession (public sector numbers continue to grow at their normal pace while private sector numbers drop and recover over several years) was being characterized as some sort of scandal through cherry picked math. So they were effectively creating alarmism out of absolutely nothing. And in fact, reality showed the opposite. Canada's private sector job numbers recovered to their pre-pandemic level faster than in most other countries, including the US (Canada took 2 years while the US took about 2.5 years to get back to pre-pandemic private sector employment).
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