October 26, 2012 – MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley talks to Steve Paikin about Canada’s cautious approach to foreign direct investment on TVO’s The Agenda tonight. The interview is part of The Agenda’s Story of the Week.
This Sunday from 7PM ET/ 4PM PT on CPAC, Dale Goldhawk probes theories raised by Canada’s former UN Ambassador Paul Heinbecker in his new book, Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada. The show will tackle the question: “Is Canada maintaining its reputation at the UN?” MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley will join the discussion at approximately 7:15PM and provide his view on this and other elements of Canada’s foreign affairs policy.
These issues are top-of-mind for Dr. Crowley, as he recently was one of only two Canadians to take part in an international conference in Brussels that looked at the waning trans-Atlantic partnership. MLI released a Commentary, The Western Alliance: A Moral Superpower or Nothing, following that conference which was based upon remarks delivered by Crowley.
He’s had an impact too. Chris Edwards writes about Cutting Government the Canadian Way and points the compass northward as a lesson for Americans when he writes, “For more on the Canadian fiscal reforms, see The Canadian Century by Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens, and Niels Veldhuis.”
Our First Annual Macdonald-Laurier Soirée on Feb. 15 was a great success. Some 200 guests mingled, munched and listened to former Prime Ministers the Right Hon. Jean Chrétien and the Right Hon. Joe Clark, House of Commons Speaker the Hon. Peter Milliken and the shades of former PMs Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier praise and debate Canada’s political tradition.
Soirée gets a mention on the Society Page of the Ottawa Citizen. Click here to see the article.
If you couldn’t make it, here are some video images from Tuesday evening and we hope to see you next year.
On November 29th, As part of the press conference releasing To Stand On Guard, author Paul Chapin and MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley took questions from the media. The release of this latest MLI study coincided with the recent WikiLeaks controversy and this is reflected in the questions and answers portion of the media event. You can watch the Q&As below…
October 12, 2012 – Our latest debate, Resolved: Canada no longer needs the CBC, featuring debaters Andrew Coyne and Mark Starowicz took place on October 4th to a sold-out crowd at the Canadian War Museum. In case you missed the debate, check out photos, video, the opening statements, and Ottawa Citizen’s live blog of the evening below.
As regular readers of this blog will know, Veterans’ Ombudsman Col. Pat Stogran recently asked MLI Managing Director Brian Crowley to make a presentation laying out the reasons why all Canadians should be honouring the sacrifices of our veterans and why doing so is both a moral obligation and a practical necessity.
On the occasion of Veterans’ Week and Remembrance Day, Brian has prepared a video commentary inspired by that presentation. You can see this video at our MLI web site, or by watching here…
In addition, the National Post follows up with another article today discussing Clark and DeVries critique on budget transparency. Click here to read it.
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CBC’s Power and Politics interview with Scott Clark – Interview begins at 1:42:35
On March 31, I appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology to discuss Free to Learn. On the whole, I found the Senators’ reception to the proposal to be very positive. My fellow panelists Michael Mendelson, Jane Preston, and Andrew Sharpe also offered interesting perspectives on the barriers to Aboriginal post-secondary education. It is heartening to hear policymakers at the federal level discussing the proposal in earnest, and I sincerely hope it continues. Below is the transcript. You can also view the video, here (it takes a few minutes to download).
MLI Managing Director Brian Crowley was a guest on CPAC’s Goldhawk Live this past Sunday. In the inaugural show of 2011 for Goldhawks national phone-in the question for viewers was: Has partisan politics killed leadership?
It is a hot topic in the modern political environment and the host was joined by Dr. Crowley, Louise Elliott of CBC and Fen Hampson from Carleton University. There was a lively discussion and, as Crowley noted, any dysfunction occurs because there is more than one political party “swimming in this gene pool”.
January 11, 2013 – MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley will be on CTV’s Afternoon Express today at 2:05 pm ET to discuss Aboriginal resource revenue sharing. Click here to watch the interview.
In addition, MLI’s Ken Coates will be on CBC Radio’s Information Morning in Fredericton to discuss the federal court decision regarding non-status aboriginal people in Canada on Monday, January 14. He will also discuss his Globe and Mail op-ed co-authored with Brian Lee Crowley on aboriginal equity on CBC Radio in Yellowknife.
On Sunday, April 10, 2011, Brian Lee Crowley will join the discussion about the current election campaign on Goldhawk Live on CPAC. The discussion will centre around the federal party’s promises over the past two weeks of the campaign, and how economically feasible their promises sound in the context of a large deficit and a healthcare crunch that most agree is headed for a crisis in funding to support our aging population.
In today’s Financial Post, MLI’s Philip Cross discusses how politics may have played a part in naming Steve Poloz as the new Governor of the Bank of Canada, but maybe not for the reasons many pundits believe. Is Poloz Carney’s legacy? Philip Cross, Special to Financial Post, May 7,...
