[4] According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the ad stated that the "average stay was less than five years and the vast majority of Aboriginal youth never attended", and that "there is little evidence that abuse that was suffered by a grandparent had any affect on the academic success of the generations that followed".
[4] CBC quoted a professor who described the Frontier Centre's position as "egregiously wrong" and "knowingly turning its back on the facts.
"[4] Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations denounced the ad for downplaying the "overwhelming research and evidence that shows the harmful, negative impacts of residential school".
[4] The Centre published in 2021 an anthology of 13 articles criticizing editorial, legal and historical defects in the publications of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015).
[6][7][8][9] In 2011 and 2012 the Frontier Centre put on its website and in letters allegations of fraud made by Timothy Ball against climate scientist Michael E. Mann, who issued a lawsuit.