(Ted) Morton, Tom Flanagan (political scientist) and history professor David Bercuson[2][3][4] who are strongly committed to strategic and direct influence on public affairs with a long term vision.
[2] The Calgary School are clever strategists who chose to write about contentious, controversial and current topics that "people care about"[3] by simplifying and polarizing complex and sensitive issues giving them dramatic interest and mass appeal.
[11] Knopff entered a highly-controversial debate to defend a Calgary School colleague whose career ended abruptly when his comments on the consumption of child pornography were publicized.
Viewing pictures serves to create more demand for these terrible images, which leads to further exploitation of defenseless children" (Cannon 2013)"[12] In his criticism of the university, the CBC, and the Manning Institute, Knopff cited the "famous Sharpe case" in which "both the trial judge and the B.C.
Rainer agreed with the possession offence but also with his colleague's statement that the demand-side consumption of child pornography is one of personal liberty and suggested that as opposed to the production side, which is a more harmful crime, it could be addressed by treatment, not incarceration.