MEDIA RELEASE December 7, 2011, Ottawa, ON – In Washington, new legislation was recently introduced to fast-track visas for foreigners spending $500,000 on residential property. This news arrives a year after the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) originally popularized the policy idea in an article published in the Buffalo Daily News by MLI Managing Director Brian Lee ...
MEDIA RELEASE October 25, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Incidents like the August 2010 arrival of the Sun Sea shipload of asylum seekers have highlighted Canada’s vulnerability to migrant smuggling. A failure to respond effectively to and deter such migrant smuggling risks emboldening those who engage in this illicit enterprise. According to author Benjamin Perrin in ...
MEDIA RELEASE November 1, 2011, Ottawa, ON – At a time when Muslims constitute one of Canada’s fastest growing immigrant communities and Islam the fastest-growing religion, Canadians will find much to reassure them, but also much to ponder, in a new study of Muslim public opinion in Canada published today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI). ...
September 13, 2011, Ottawa, ON – A disproportionately large volume of crime in this country is committed by a disproportionately small number of offenders. Dealing effectively with these repeat offenders is central to improving the public safety of Canadians according to the latest instalment in the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s newest series, Straight Talk, in which crime-expert ...
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley was on John Gormley Live earlier today, to talk about his latest commentary, Trading in Superstitions.
Ottawa, February 14, 2011 – The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Trading in Superstitions, by Institute Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley, that took aim at harmful superstitions Canadians and Americans hold about one another that interfere with effective cooperation on trade and security. Based on a speech to the National Strategy Forum in ...
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute today released To Stand On Guard: A National Security Strategy for Canadians, by Paul Chapin, a former Director General and 25-year veteran of the the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. The study is the first in MLI’s series on national security. Stand On Guard lays out the values, threats and ...
On October 21st, the Government of Canada introduced its response to the August arrival of almost 500 Tamil refugee claimants aboard the ‘Sun Sea’. Within days of the arrival of the ‘Sun Sea’ the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a Commentary on the human-smuggling challenge faced by Canada. Authored by the former head of the Canadian Police ...
Yesterday, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, revealed that officials in Thailand had arrested more than 100 Tamil refugees in what is thought to be the latest attempt by human-smugglers to bring people to Canada. Richard Madan of CTV News reported on this story on the flagship CTV National News program. Madan tracked down Brian ...
On October 21st, the Government of Canada introduced its response to the August arrival of almost 500 Tamil refugee claimants aboard the ‘Sun Sea’. Within days of the arrival of the ‘Sun Sea’ the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a Commentary on the human-smuggling challenge faced by Canada. Authored by the former head of the Canadian Police ...
