Martin Masse

Martin Masse was born in Joliette (Quebec) in 1965. He is a graduate of McGill University in Political Science and East Asian Studies.

Career

Martin Masse taught French and English in Japan in 1986-1987. He received a research scholarship from the Flemish Community of Belgium and wrote, in 1988 in Ghent, Identités collectives et civilisation : pour une vision non nationaliste d'un Québec indépendant (Translation: “Collective identities and civilization: a non-nationalist vision of an independent Quebec”). This work was published at VLB Éditeur in 1994. Since then, he has written articles and op-ed pieces for numerous newspapers and magazines.

He joined the Reform Party of Canada (now merged in the Conservative Party of Canada) in 1995 and worked for two years as an assistant to the provincial organizer in the Montreal regional office of the party. He chaired the Reform National Task Force on Fisheries. He also ran as a Reform candidate in a by-election in 1996 in Montreal.

In February 1998, Martin Masse launched the first libertarian webzine in Quebec, Le Québécois Libre. He was director of Publications at the Montreal Economic Institute from 2000 to 2007. In 2003, he translated into French Johan Norberg's international best-seller, In Defense of Global Capitalism.^[1]

From February 2006 to August 2007 he served as political advisor to then Canadian Industry Minister Maxime Bernier. He now works as an independent public policy consultant.

Ideas

In his writings, Martin Masse defends libertarian and classical liberal ideas. He argues against state intervention and collectivist ideologies, of either the right or the left. He is a follower of the Austrian school of economics, as developed by such theorists as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Murray Rothbard.

Publications

Most of his articles can be found on the webzine “Le Québécois Libre”: http://www.quebecoislibre.org/apmasse.htm.

• Identités collectives et civilisation. Pour une vision non nationaliste d'un Québec indépendant, Montreal, VLB éditeur, 1994 (revue in Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 828–830)
• Let the Recession Run Its Course, 2001.
• Étatistes de gauche = étatistes de droite, 2008.
• Bailout marks Karl Marx's comeback, 2008.

Other external links

• Le Québécois Libre
• Blogue du Québécois Libre

Notes

1. ^ http://www.quebecoislibre.org/030510-5.htm

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