In Postmedia outlets across Canada today, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley writes that if Canada wants to be a great nation, Canada must be a strong nation. Finding Peace Through Strength By Brian Lee Crowley, Ottawa Citizen April 27, 2013 Whether Edmund Burke actually said that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for ...
February 20, 2013 – Alex Wilner and Marco Wyss discuss the upside of Franco-African relations in Embassy. The op-ed is published below. Wyss and Wilner are Senior Researchers at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. Wilner is also a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa France’s Africa links may have ...
February 15, 2013 – MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley says it is time for Canada to close its free-trade deals in his latest column for Postmedia. The column is published in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Saskatoon’s StarPhoenix, Regina’s Leader-Post, Windsor Star, The Province, and Canada.com. Read it below. ...
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 ...
