MLI Managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley, was in the US capital this week for a series of meetings and public appearances. One stop was at the prestigious Canadian Studies Program at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. They invited Brian and Jason Clemens, two of the co-authors of Canadian Century, ...
The Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt wanted to know if there would be a Canadian Tea Party movement, and she asked MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley. His view? “We’ve had our Tea Party.” He underlined that the Chrétien government of the ‘90s, with some prodding from Preston Manning’s Reform Party, made giant strides towards solving ...
There has been much chatter lately about the “need” for a new arena in Quebec City and elsewhere. Provincial and federal politicians of all stripes have been doing a cute little two-step trying to find just the right language to use to explain how it is that taxpayer dollars should/could/would be used to fund the ...
An adaptation of an old Abe Lincoln saying is that “you can’t please all the people all of the time”…and from the ivy-walled confines of Oxford, via the Globe and Mail, we learn that Taylor Owen is disappointed in The Canadian Century. The review’s main criticism seems to be that we didn’t write the book ...
Jason Clemens, MLI Fellow and co-author along with Niels Veldhuis and Brian Lee Crowley of MLI’s best-selling The Canadian Century, has an article in today’s Wall Street Journal. In the piece titled Canada, Land of Smaller Government, Clemens makes the case for Canadian fiscal actions as a guide for Americans. From the outset, he eloquently ...
MLI’s influence continues to grow in Ottawa, as we noted earlier today. But, another important thing is starting to happen as our ideas spread. In June we published Citizen of One, Citizen of the Whole. That paper was a clarion call for the federal government to enact an enforceable Charter of Economic Rights for Canadians. ...
Somehow, I missed this until just recently. Matt Bufton, who is the current Executive Director of the Institute for Liberal Studies, wrote a review of Brian Lee Crowley’s Fearful Symmetry last year. The article appeared in The Lance at the University of Windsor. In his look at the best-seller Bufton concluded: “This book is an ...
The July-August issue of Canada Watch, a monthly digest from the Consulate General of Canada (New York), highlights the recent appearance of MLI’s first book, Canadian Century, in Foreign Policy magazine. “In a glowing June 25 Foreign Policy magazine article, entitled “The Canadian Century,” its authors (Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens, and Niels Veldhuis) present ...
Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, was heard recently on the nationally syndicated Brent Holland Show on CKLU radio out of Laurentian University. Taking the message of Canadian Century to campus radio in Sudbury provided lively half hour discussion for listeners.
In a review of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s political hit The Canadian Century on his blog Filibuster… J.J. McCullough writes: “As a book on the fiscal state of the continent, and the challenges that await in the new decade, it may prove enormously prescient.” You can also read the review at the Western Standard and check ...
