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 Canada’s armed forces should be used and acknowledges that former liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was “half right” in his assessment that Canada should do United Nations peacekeeping when it can. ...
Alex Wilner, Zurich NATO’s intervention in Libya isn’t warfare; it’s a bargaining strategy. The coalition isn’t trying to destroy Libya’s military or directly topple Colonel Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. Instead, NATO is using limited air strikes to try to convince the regime to comply with its various demands. The strategy is primarily about using air power ...
MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley is quoted in an article in the Washington Times that discusses the American reliance upon “foreign” oil. Reporter James Bacon discusses the realities of where America gets its oil and compares the various options in his article “Sandy Alberta, the Saudi Arabia next door”.
Christopher Sands, a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, recently published a briefing paper on U.S.–Canadian border cooperation in which he explores the implications of the recent bilateral summit between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama. This paper, “The Canada Gambit: Will it Revive North America?”, ...
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Revolution on an Empty Stomach, written by John Thompson, the head of the Mackenzie Institute. Every day we are inundated with news of revolution and unrest around the world. From Algeria to Yemen, it’s not necessarily corruption that is causing all the trouble. Throughout history fear of ...
Christopher Sands, a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, has published a briefing paper on U.S.–Canadian border cooperation in which he explores the implications of the recent bilateral summit between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama. Click here to read.
by Brian Lee Crowley March 10, 2011 – Ottawa – The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, AbitibiBowater, Democracy and the Public Interest, based on MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley’s testimony before the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade. In December 2008, Premier Danny Williams’ Progressive Conservative government in Newfoundland and ...
By Christopher Sands What is more dangerous at this stage of the U.S.-Canada relationship: superstitions, or myths? Both inflict the popular imagination about this relationship, and more so in Canada than in the United States simply because Americans think about the relationship less often. Superstitions have led us to distrust one another’s statements, actions and ...
