During his career he has defended the morality of capitalism against socialism in debates on college campuses across North America including Yale University, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, UCLA and Berkeley, and notably against former premier of Ontario Bob Rae.
Brean cited several articles published by the paper, including a claim Liberal party member Bob Rae had secretly changed his name from "Levine" (to conceal the fact that he is actually Jewish) and a claim that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's real birthday is the same as Adolf Hitler, which the paper claimed “looks good on a resume” for “New World Order types.”
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Wildman supported Jim Foulds's bid to lead the provincial NDP in 1982, and made little secret of his opposition to Bob Rae's leadership in the years that followed.
He was re-elected by a landslide in 1991, although many prominent politicians, such as Bob Rae and Brian Mulroney, refused to meet with Fratesi on unrelated matters due to his stance.
As of 2012, notable Senior Fellows and Senior Residents of the college include John Polanyi, Ursula Franklin, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margaret Atwood, Sir Christopher Ondaatje, James Orbinski, Michael Valpy, Peter H. Russell, Janice Stein, Michael Ignatieff, Adrienne Clarkson, Stephen Clarkson, Hal Jackman, John Ralston Saul, Michael Bliss, Anthony Pawson, Neil Seeman, Chantal Hébert, Justice Rosalie Abella and Bob Rae.
The NDP won a majority government under Bob Rae in the provincial election of 1990, and Buchanan defeated Jim Pollock by 896 votes.