September 12, 2012 – Philip Cross writes a new op-ed in the Financial Post on the state of the relationship between Chrysler and the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union. An excerpt below: But closing Chrysler’s plants might have a silver lining in the long run. It could be a seminal moment for Canada’s trade union movement, ...
September 5, 2012 – The Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson writes about the powerful opportunity Prime Minister Stephen Harper has to “smother the sovereigntist flame” following the Parti Québécois’ victory last night. In the column, he quotes MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley. An excerpt below: “If Stephen Harper plays his cards well, he could marginalize the ...
September 4, 2012 – MLI is quoted in two National Post columns today! In the first, National Post’sAndrew Coyne writes about the need for Canada to optimize productivity to combat an ageing workforce and he quotes MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley to make his point. An excerpt below from “Canada is still unprepared for ageing double whammy“: ...
September 3, 2012 – MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley says the “Break-up Anxiety Disorder” and the “Separatist Agitation Disorder” that come along with a Quebec election can be overcome if you first admit you have a problem. Read his remedy below (published in the Ottawa Citizen nd Calgary Herald). PQ governments come and go By Brian Lee ...
August 30, 2012 – In today’s Financial Post, MLI’s Philip Cross responds to the recent remarks made by Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney on how corporations should either spend their ample financial reserves or return the value to shareholders through buy-backs. According to Cross, “It is the job of companies to make money for their ...
August 8, 2012 – MLI Senior Fellow Laura Dawson and Charles Shapiro, President of the Institute of the Americas, write about the CNOOC-Nexen deal and Canada-U.S. energy relations in a new op-ed published in the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Calgary Sun, and Winnipeg Sun. The full op-ed is copied below. The op-ed also appeared in the ...
MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley is invited to speak at the Merck Animal Health’s meeting in Victoria, B.C on August 1st, 2012. His talk will focus on how regulation can keep pace with innovation and technology. For more information about Merck Animal Group, click here.
Our latest newsletter is now available! Click here to read it now. In this issue: – What US and Asian manufacturing tell us about Canadian manufacturing and the dollar – Canada Health Act: Reform to preserve – Defending the indefensible: Canada’s stubbornness on supply management jeopardizes jobs and growth – RIM: Foreign buyer could create ...
July 28, 2012 - In his latest Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald column, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley writes about Premier Christy Clark’s list of conditions for giving “permission” for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline to cross British Columbia. Crowley says, “Nation-building cannot be held hostage to every grasping local interest…Clark can bluster about Northern Gateway needing provincial permits ...
July 27, 2012 – In their latest op-ed, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley and Ken Coates write about Premier Christy Clark’s recent demands for B.C. to receive its “fair share” of the proceeds and improved environmental protections from the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. Crowley and Coates say, “Premier Christy Clark has inadvertently given the Aboriginal demand for ...
