February 8, 2013 – Foreign Affairs’ list of ”What to Read on Canadian Politics” includes MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley’s 2009 book, Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values. For the full list, click here. Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values. By Brian Lee Crowley. Key Porter Books, ...
On November 5th, the Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick, Richard Currie, spoke to a sell out crowd at a Beaverbrook Luncheon in Fredericton, NB. The Canadian business icon spoke to the luncheon theme of A Celebration of Generosity and stressed the need for a new kind of generosity from governments. While noting his ...
Out in the blogosphere there is plenty of chatter about MLI and our work. Just recently we hear from The Willow Pond talking about Fearful Symmetry and The Canadian Century. He’s a fan, “I’ve read both of them, and I would encourage you to pick them up as well.” At the same time, writing in ...
MLI’s Managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley, appears in the September 20th Hill Times in a wide-ranging interview with HT Editor, Kate Malloy. The topic? Crowley’s 2009 best-seller, Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values. The interview touches on the book’s main messages, welfare reform, immigration, the Canadian Forces and big government, to name a few. It makes for a timely read for our politicians who have just returned from their summer of working back in their constituencies.
It is always nice to see one’s books mentioned in the media, but Chantal Hébert’s column yesterday, which made reference to Fearful Symmetry, presented an inaccurate caricature of my arguments about the damage done to the family by the welfare state. Contrary to Ms. Hébert’s claims, I argued (among many other things!) that it is ...
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley will be attending Atlas Network’s Fisher Memorial Award Dinner in Miami, during which Fearful Symmetry will be recognised as a finalist for this year’s award (an award he has won twice in the past).
In this week’s Maclean’s magazine Paul Wells spends a lot of time discussing Fearful Symmetry and the social policy changes it portends: “For next steps, many conservatives are turning to Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values, a new book by Brian Lee Crowley, an economist and founder of the new Macdonald ...
Readers of Fearful Symmetry, published in September, 2009, will recall its claim that “The next 50 years will be an age of labour force inclusiveness such as the social engineers of the employment equity movement could never have imagined.” This conclusion was based on an analysis of the impact of population ageing, the consequent retirement ...
