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”.
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discussed climate talks in Cancun and the deepening US economic mess in a recent appearance on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange. Click here to watch the segment, which starts at the 36-minute mark.
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley appeared on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange yesterday discussing public debt and unfunded public pension liabilities. While Canada is not yet in the same boat as countries like Greece and Portugal, there are storm clouds on the horizon and public pension funding liabilities are one of them, as Crowley highlighted.
Brian was also asked about recent debt management suggestions that are coming out of the US. He noted, pursuing a theme from MLI’s best-selling book Canadian Century, that what is absent in the US today is a multi-partisan attack on deficits that was exhibited in Canada in the mid-1990s.
On March 15, 2010, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute released its first publication, Free to Learn: Giving Aboriginal Youth Control over their Post-Secondary Education. Brian Lee Crowley, Calvin Helin and Dave Snow present the study to members of the media at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa.
To Stand On Guard, MLI’s latest paper authored by Paul Chapin, was the topic of discussion on CTV’s Power Play on Monday, November 29. Chapin explained to host Dan Matheson and Canadians that it is time for Canada to develop a national security strategy that would engage us more completely in the post-911 world.
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.
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…
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.
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.”
While he was in Ottawa shortly before the release of his study From Rehabilitation to Recruitment for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, author Alex Wilner sat down with me to discuss his paper and the evolving face of terror worldwide, including the menace of modern high-seas piracy and its possible links to terrorist groups. We’re pleased to bring you video of Alex’s clear, frank discussion of these important questions.
January 25, 2012 – In today’s Financial Post, MLI’s Jason Clemens examines the economic prospects of the U.S. in the current economic climate of uncertainty. He says, “It’s simply impossible for those who risk capital to make reasonable decisions about investing or expanding a business in this climate. This...
