January 25, 2013
Automated sensors and a climate for more information sharing could create a basis for intelligence-led enforcement along miles of unpatrolled border MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, January 25, 2013 – As the federal government considers border security options, security expert Scott Newark in his latest Straight Talk with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) calls for enhanced intelligence led ...
January 22, 2013
Electronic monitoring devices and biometric ‘bad guy’ lookout systems at the border appropriate tools in tracking unwanted individuals MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, January 22, 2012 – Canada’s “robotic appeals process” may put immigration lawyers into a Mercedes Benz, but it is not exactly an effective way to remove people who are in Canada illegally, according to ...
January 7, 2013
Click here to read the latest issue of Vanguard Magazine. Click here to read the latest Straight Talk with Scott Newark on immigration and national security.
December 19, 2012
December 19, 2012 – In an interview for Sun News, MLI author and security expert Scott Newark says Canada must improve its intelligence gathering and sharing so that individuals who pose a security risk to Canada are identified before they arrive at our borders. The interview follows the release of MLI’s latest Straight Talk interview ...
December 18, 2012
Making immigration and national security compatible is possible but requires courage and commitment MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, December 18, 2012 –Canada must improve its intelligence gathering and sharing so that individuals who pose a security risk to Canada are identified before they arrive at our borders, according to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s (MLI) latest Straight Talk. In ...
December 9, 2011
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 ...
November 15, 2011
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 ...
November 1, 2011
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 12, 2011
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 ...
February 15, 2011
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley was on John Gormley Live earlier today, to talk about his latest commentary, Trading in Superstitions.
