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Thomas Eugene "Tom" Flanagan, (born March 5, 1944) is an American-born author, conservative political activist, and was a political science professor at the University of Calgary. Flanagan is on "research and scholarship leave" from the University of Calgary since January 2013. He also served as an advisor to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper until 2004. Flanagan has focused on challenging Native and Métis rights. In connection with his multi-year research and publications on Louis Riel, Flanagan published a reinterpretation of the North-West Rebellion, defending the federal government's response to Métis land claims.〔Thomas Flanagan, Riel and the Rebellion: 1885 Reconsidered (Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983). Second edition, University of Toronto Press, 2000.〕 He began publishing works on Louis Riel (leader of the 1885 North-West Rebellion)in the 1970s, which evolved into a multi-year 'Louis Riel Project' that he coordinated. During the 2012 provincial elections he served as the campaign manager of the Wildrose Party, an Alberta libertarian/conservative provincial party. As an offshoot of his political activism, Flanagan began to write as a columnist in 1997, publishing in media such as the ''Globe and Mail, National Post, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's'', and ''Time''. He appeared regularly on Canadian TV and radio as commentator. ==Education and teaching== Flanagan earned a B.A. at Notre Dame University in Indiana. Studying political science under John Hallowell, Flanagan earned an M.A. in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1970, both at Duke University in North Carolina.〔 He also studied at the Free University of Berlin.〔 Flanagan has taught at the University of Calgary since 1968 and co-authored an introductory Canadian politics textbook. He served as Head of the Political Science Department and Assistant to the President of the University.〔 Since January 2013 Flanagan is on "research and scholarship leave" and is scheduled to retire June 30, 2013. Since the 1970s Tom Flanagan published numerous scholarly studies "debunking the heroism of Métis icon Louis Riel, arguing against native land claims, and calling for an end to aboriginal rights (McDonald 2004)." Flanagan developed his concept of aboriginal orthodoxy in which he argued against aboriginal collective rights. He claimed that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982 ) Section 35 amendment, which stated that "The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed" resulted in thousands of cases involving aboriginal and treaty rights—indeed thousands of cases including residential school claims. Flanagan decried the increased influence of the courts and "()he sheer volume of these cases" which threaten "to take policy-making out of the hands of elected representatives and put it into the hands of a small cadre of judges, lawyers, law professors, and expert witnesses (Flanagan 2001:9) Although Flanagan admits that he has profited as expert witness, he also believes that "() flood of litigation is detrimental to democracy" (Flanagan 2001:9). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Flanagan (political scientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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