February 13, 2012
MLI author shows how to reconcile openness to investment and protecting the national interest MEDIA RELEASE February 13, 2012, Ottawa, ON - Canada’s well-educated workforce, stable economic environment, competitive business tax regime, access to natural resources and formal openness to business investment make us an attractive destination for foreign investment in our economy. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ...
February 11, 2012
February 11, 2012 – In today’s Ottawa Citizen, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley discusses how subsidizing poorly performing parts of Canada is in truth a policy of refusing to make people face the consequences of the poor policy choices they have made over the years. He says, “And until we change that, both Canadians and newcomers ...
February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 – In today’s Embassy Magazine, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner discusses the recently unveiled counter-terrorism strategy. Wilner says, ”The benefits of publishing the strategy far outweigh the costs. It is not only a question of government accountability or of pushing counter-terrorism up the priority list. It is not even chiefly about promoting an ...
February 7, 2012
February 7, 2012 – MLI’s recently released study, Canada’s Looming Fiscal Squeeze: Collected Essays on Solutions, is highlighed in a Financial Post exclusive published today! The FP summarizes the key ideas from the collected essays on how to solve Canada’s looming demographic deficit. Authors are Bev Dahlby (U of Alberta), Janice MacKinnon (U of Saskatchewan and former NDP finance minister, SK), Ron Kneebone (U ...
February 7, 2012
MEDIA RELEASE February 7, 2012, Ottawa, ON – Canada will soon face the full burden of an aging society. The greying and eventual retirement of the baby boomers will cause national income growth and tax revenues to slow and public programs such as health care and income support for seniors to become more costly. In ...
February 6, 2012
February 6, 2012 – Jack Granatstein, a member of MLI’s Research Advisory Board, writes a monthly column for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. This month, he writes about not needing the UN’s permission “to determine if Ottawa can act with its friends against a threat to peace.” The full column below: We don’t ...
February 3, 2012
MEDIA RELEASE February 3, 2012, Ottawa, ON – The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley has just been named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Government and Politics in 2012” by The Hill Times. This is yet another accomplishment for the Institute, which in the last year won the biggest international prize ...
February 1, 2012
February 1, 2012 – In a column for iPolitics published today, MLI’s Jason Clemens says that rhetoric and indignation on pension reform is getting in the way of informed, constructive dialogue. An excerpt below: There is no doubt that the aging of society will have profound consequences. Changes will have to be made, either incrementally in advance based ...
February 1, 2012
MEDIA RELEASE February 1, 2012, Ottawa, ON – The Atlantic Integrated Commercial Fishery Initiative (AICFI) represents a unique and successful program for Aboriginal management of natural resources, specifically in program implementation, conception, and delivery. These are the conclusions of a major evaluation of the program carried out by Professor Jacquelyn Thayer Scott for the Macdonald-Laurier ...
January 31, 2012
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