New report proposes solutions to major vulnerabilities in Canada’s national security framework MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, February 29, 2012 – Canadians’ daily lives depend on running water, electricity, safe roads, ready access to medical care, food, and the Internet. Yet a new report, released today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says we have no plans to protect ...
December 7, 2010 - MLI’s recently released study on the threats to Canada’s critical infrastructure was highlighted in the Toronto Sun. In the article, author Andrew Graham discusses specifically how Canada’s cyber security is at risk. He said that Canada’s banking systems, transportation corridors, power plants and oil pipelines increasingly depend on remote-controlled sensors and computers vulnerable to ...
MEDIA RELEASE December 6, 2011 – Like the air that we breathe, we are not aware of the extent to which our lives depend on the critical infrastructure (CI) that surrounds us, operating quietly in the background. Much of that infrastructure is relatively fragile, extremely vulnerable, and poorly protected from those who might wish to ...
December 1, 2011 – In a new article for Embassy Magazine, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner discusses how we need to locate, secure and destroy Gaddafi’s vast stockpile of dangerous weapons before it falls into the wrong the hands. The article is based on MLI’s recently released Commentary, Halting al Qaeda’s African Rebound, by Wilner. ...
MEDIA RELEASE November 28, 2011, Ottawa, ON – The missing weapons in Libya and the ensuing risk that these weapons could land in the hands of al Qaeda have highlighted serious security issues for Canada and other Western countries. In a new study released by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Halting al Qaeda’s African Rebound, author Alex ...
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). ...
July 29, 2011 - Recently, media coverage has been focusing on the recruitment of Somali-Canadians by the terror group al-Shabab, but MLI has been at the forefront of this issue. Alex Wilner, MLI fellow and senior researcher at the Centre for Securities Studies in Zurich, has addressed the issues raised by al-Shabab and he has posed a number of positive and thoughtful recommendations on the subject. Last ...
Since the release of MLI’s Commentary, Keeping Canada Strong and Free, it has appeared in several print and online publications: Trail Daily Times, June 3, 2011, “Four ideas for keeping Canada strong and free” Calgary Beacon, June 2, 2011, “Keeping Canada Strong and Free” Surrey Beacon, June 2, 2011, “Keeping Canada Strong and Free” The Commentary, ...
In his new regular column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley welcomes the news of the killing of Osama bin Laden and questions why some commentators seem to feel that the west is always wrong when it defends its values, while radical Islamists and others are too frequently given a free ...
Alex Wilner, Zurich If you didn’t know where Abbottabad, Pakistan was yesterday, you do today. That’s where Osama bin Laden was killed by American Special Forces on May 1, 2011. Mark the day; things may be different from now on. Bin Laden’s demise comes nine years and seven months after al Qaeda carried out its ...
