FP Comment, June 16, 2011 Constitution requires goods ‘be admitted free’ By Ian Blue Canadians pay high but hidden costs thanks to interprovincial trade barriers. As countless analyses show, agricultural marketing boards, provincial liquor monopolies, and provincial product regulations are just a few of the many government policies that frustrate trade and make Canadians worse ...
Crowley to Ottawa: Tear Down These Walls Ottawa has the duty, power and responsibility to remove trade barriers between Canadians June 15, 2011 – Ottawa – An aging population, an increasingly competitive world and a serious problem with productivity growth: these are the chief economic challenges that face Canada. Yet barriers to trade and movement ...
The Canadian Wheat Board, agricultural marketing boards and provincial liquor monopolies may be open to legal challenge June 15, 2011, Ottawa, ON – In the latest paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, senior commercial litigator and energy lawyer Ian Blue argues that a single wrong-headed legal decision from Canada’s distant past has obscured and virtually destroyed ...
On May 25, 2011, Hon. Stéphane Dion, MP for the Montreal riding of Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, discusses how unilateral secession contravenes international law in an interview for iPolitics.ca (registration required to view article). The interview follows the release of MLI’s Commentary, Secession and the Virtues of Clarity, written by the Hon. Stéphane Dion. “These questions are even more pressing, given ...
On May 25, 2011, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Commentary, Secession and the Virtues of Clarity, written by the Hon. Stéphane Dion was covered on CBC’s Inside Politics Blog. CBC’s Chris Carter discusses Mr. Dion’s continued concern for pushing for clarity over the rules and tools for Canada in confronting the possibility of Quebec secession. Read full Commentary here
May 25, 2011 – Charles Adler invited MP Stéphane Dion on his Sun News Network TV show to discuss his Commentary, Secession and the Virtues of Clarity, released by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In his Commentary, Mr. Dion said, “The break-up of a modern state such as Canada would be a very difficult goal to attain – and ...
With Quebec election looming, former Liberal leader picks up cudgels on behalf of democracy and the rule of law in deciding Quebec’s future. May 25, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Within a year the Province of Quebec faces a provincial election that, if the polls are to be believed, will return the Parti Quebecois to power, ...
By Janet Ajzenstat John Robson of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute is praising John Pepall’s Against Refom, recently published by the University of Toronto Centre for Public Management. The argument in brief: “The Canadian political system, with its unique array of discontents, has long nurtured a corresponding set of reform proposals. At any given time some have ...
By Janet Ajzenstat “Protection of property is a basic right.” So says the editorial in the National Post (Friday, February 25, 2011). So says John Locke in the Second Treatise of Government. And so say I. But should we entrench the protection in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? No! Entrenching rights curtails legislative ...
By Janet Ajzenstat In the National Post (January 21, 2011), Michael Bliss and John Fraser argued that it is time to cast off Canada’s connection with the British monarchy. John Von Heyking wrote in reply: “Removing the monarchy would involve whole-scale constitutional transformation or even a revolution. Such a process would make the struggles over ...
