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Great Reset conspiracy theories

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May add to this new article : In March 2022, a Canadian Senator, Kim Pate, introduced Bill S-233, a 1-page bill, to the Senate, which requested that the Canadian Department of Finance investigate the possibility of a guaranteed livable basic income (GLBI) program in Canada. If the Senate bill passed both the Senate and the House of Commons, which is rare for this type of bill, the current Liberal government is not enthusiastic about the concept of a basic income. In response to the announcement of the bill, Canadian senators received a tsunami of "tens of thousands of calls, emails and handwritten letters" citing concerns from the Great Reset conspiracy theory that the GLBI would "lead to some sort of totalitarian world government". Even if the Senate bill passed both the Senate and the House of Commons, which is unlikely for this type of bill, the current Liberal government has not demonstrated any interest in introducing a basic income. In response to the announcement of the bill, Canadian senators received "tens of thousands of calls, emails and handwritten letters" citing concerns based on the Great Reset conspiracy theory that the GLBI would "lead to some sort of totalitarian world government". The letter-writing campaign which caused servers to overload, was described as "well-organized". A politician associated with the People's Party of Canada said without evidence that under Bill S-233, the unvaccinated would be denied access to Social Services, Old Age Security, the Canada Pension Plan, and Employment Insurance.

Conspiracy theory
The term "Great Reset" can also refer to a conspiracy theory, named after the conference, which suggests that some world leaders planned and executed the COVID-19 pandemic in order to take control of the world economy.

A November 2020 article in The Daily Beast said that even before Biden became president, his "incoming White House already has its first conspiracy theory to deal with"the Great Reset conspiracy theory. Mainstream media outlets such as The New York Times, the BBC, and The Guardian traced the spread of the latest conspiracy theory on the Great Reset, which had integrated anti-lockdown conspiracies, to internet personalities and groups, including Candace Owens, Glenn Beck, Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson,  and Paul Joseph Watson, the UK-based editor of Alex Jones' website Infowars, where he advanced the New World Order conspiracy theory. Ben Sixsmith wrote that the conspiracy theory had been spread by "fringes of Right-Wing Twitter", as well as by Australia's One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson (a "‘socialist left Marxist view of the world’") and UK conservative writer James Delingpole (a "global communist takeover plan"). However, Sixsmith observed the WEF's partners include such capitalist enterprises as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, IKEA, Lockheed Martin, Ericsson and Deloitte.

An October 2020 article by Snopes traced the origins of a chain email posted on conspiracy forums from a member of a non-existent committee within the Liberal Party of Canada that leaked Canada's secret "COVID Global Reset Plan" to the QAnon-dedicated "Q Research" board on 8kun.

By November 2020, Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada lamented on his webpage on November 17 that he was the only Canadian politician along with Pierre Poilievre, an MP, speaking up against the globalist threat with Trudeau as the "world's most prominent defender" of this Great Reset. Other critics included Canadian conservative political commentators such as Ezra Levant. They claimed that Trudeau's rhetoric resembled that of the Great Reset conspiracy. Conservative

By November 17, 2020, a short video of Trudeau's speech in which he described key points of the concept of an economic "reset" had gone viral, as it reignited fervor over the Great Reset conspiracy theory that had taken on a new life with the launching of the forum in May. By November 2020, Maxime Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada lamented on his webpage on November 17 that he was the only Canadian politician along with Pierre Poilievre, an MP, speaking up against the globalist threat with Trudeau as the "world's most prominent defender" of this Great Reset. Other critics included Canadian conservative political commentators such as Ezra Levant. They claimed that Trudeau's rhetoric resembled that of the Great Reset conspiracy. Conservative Spencer Fernando stated that, "We want our lives to get back to normal… Instead they offer only more fear, more control, more centralization, and a reshaping of our lives and our economy without even asking us." When Poilievre circulated a petition to "Stop the Reset", Le Devoir headlined an article saying that the Conservative Party was embracing conspiracy theories. The Toronto Star editorial board criticized Poilievre for "giving oxygen" to the baseless conspiracy theory, with some suggesting his post was related to a possible federal election.

On December 13, 2020, Australian advertising executive Rowan Dean promoted the conspiracy theory on Sky News Australia, claiming that "This Great Reset is as serious and dangerous a threat to our prosperity – to your prosperity and your freedom – as we have faced in decades".

The conspiracy theory has also been disseminated by Russian propaganda outlets. According to Oliver Kamm, in an article for the CapX website: "The propaganda apparatus of the Putin regime has for many months published wild allegations from obscure bloggers that the Great Reset is code for oligarchs to amass wealth and control populations."

[by March 2022} this had been added: According to The New York Times, BBC News, The Guardian, Le Devoir and Radio Canada, conspiracy theories spread by American far-right groups linked to QAnon surged at the onset of the Great Reset forum and increased in fervor as leaders such as U.S. President Joe Biden, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau incorporated ideas based on a "reset" in their speeches.