On June 10, 2011, The Ottawa Citizen published an article discussing why Canada doesn’t grow more food. In the article, MLI author Larry Martin, an agricultural economist at the George Morris Centre, points to “the regulatory system that stifles innovation” and “supply management” as the causes for stagnation in food production in Canada. Read the article by ...
On June 27, 2011, the Financial Post published a commentary by Karen Selick, litigation director for the Canadian Constitution Foundation, on how economic rights are inseparable from civil liberties. In the FP Comment, Selick quoted MLI’s Brian Crowley’s book, Fearful Symmetry, when presenting “some interesting precedents and historical facts”: Brian Lee Crowley’s bestselling 2009 book Fearful Symmetry points ...
On Monday June 20, 2011, MLI author Dr. Jane Londerville was asked to be a witness at the third meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance for Bill C-3, an act to implement certain provisions of the 2011 budget. A large section of the Bill is on private mortgage insurance and Dr. Londerville was asked to ...
By Brian Crowley, June 27, 2011 One of our readers responded to my recent column about the study the CBC released about the economic impact of the corporation’s $1.1 billion budget. Followers of this blog who did not read the piece may wish to know that I pointed out in that article that you get ...
June 27, 2011 – In today’s issue of The Hill Times, Brian Lee Crowley discusses the legacy of Tommy Douglas and how “those who call down the former Saskatchewan premier’s name in defence of their policy hardly seem to know whom they are talking about. For if the NDP were truly the party of T.C. ...
June 23, 2011 – MLI’s Commentary, Freeing Canadians to Move and Trade, written by MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley, has been promoted and discussed in a number of media sources since its June 15th release. The full Commentary appeared on June 20th in the Montreal Gazette, the Surrey Beacon, and the Calgary Beacon. On June 21st, The Rutherford Radio Show ...
On June 20, 2011, The Windsor Star published the MLI’s Commentary, Keeping Canada Strong and Free, written by Brian Lee Crowley, MLI’s Managing Director, and Alex Wilner, MLI Fellow and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Securities Studies in Zurich. The Commentary outlines four ideas that should be front and centre as Canadians debate the ...
June 2011 – 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 how the presence of present-day German soldiers at the Menin Gate Memorial ceremony in Ypres, Belgium is a lesson that nations can change. An excerpt below: But now ...
Since the June 15th release of MLI’s paper written by Ian Blue on interprovincial trade barriers, Free Trade within Canada: Say Goodbye to Gold Seal, it has received a lot of media attention. It appeared in the Financial Post on June 16th, in iPolitics.ca on June 17th, and in the Telegraph Journal on June 20th ...
Dave Rutherford from The Rutherford Show had MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley on his June 21st radio program (AM 770 CHQR or streamed online) at 1pm EDT to discuss MLI’s new Commentary, Freeing Canadians to Move and Trade. To listen to the audio archive, visit the Audio Vault on the QR77 website and select the date June-21-11 and ...
