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| Born | Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada |
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| Political party | Conservative Party |
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Sean Speer is a Canadian academic, commentator, and public policy analyst. He is senior fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy,[1] Fellow in strategic competitiveness at the Public Policy Forum,[2] Editor-at-large at The Hub,[3] and a regular contributor to the National Post.[4] He has been published in The Globe and Mail,[5] Maclean's,[6] C2CJournal,[7] National Review,[8] and Policy Options.[9]
Brian Lee Crowley, a Canadian author, and public policy commentator, called him "one of the brightest intellectual lights of his generation."[10] Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was "an impressive thinker in [...] the areas of modern conservatism, economics, history, and public policy."[11] In 2015, he was named in the Top 25 Most Powerful & Influential People in Government and Politics by The Hill Times as a PMO[clarification needed] advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[12] In 2021, he was ranked 38th on Maclean's power list, earning the nickname as "the thinking man's Conservative."[13]
- ^ "Sean Speer | Public Policy at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy | University of Toronto". Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "Sean Speer". Public Policy Forum. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "Sean Speer". thehub.ca. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "Sean-Speer | National Post". nationalpost. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ "Search Results". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
- ^ Boessenkool, Ken; Speer, Sean (2015-12-01). "Stephen Harper's open federalism changed Canada for the better". Macleans.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
- ^ Speer, Sean. "Sean Speer, Author at C2C Journal". C2C Journal. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
- ^ "Sean Speer". National Review. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
- ^ Boessenkool, Ken; Speer, Sean (2015-12-01). "Ordered Liberty". Policy Options. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
- ^ Crowley, Brian (2013). Fearful Symmetry - The Fall and Rise of Canada's Founding Values. Key Porter Books. ISBN 9781456605520.
- ^ Harper, Stephen (2018). Right Here, Right Now. McClelland & Stewart. p. 239. ISBN 9780771038648.
- ^ "The Top 100 Most Powerful & Influential People in Government and Politics: 2015". The Hill Times. 2015-01-19. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ "The Power List: 50 Canadians who are shaping how we think and live". Macleans.ca. January 18, 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-01.