MLI authors recommend ways to cut cost of cabotage, improve free trade in transport services MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, April 17, 2012 – The transport of goods in North America is slower and more expensive than it needs to be because of centuries-old trade practices that need to be revised, two authors argue in a Macdonald-Laurier ...
Ottawa must play major role in unlocking natural resource development across the country MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, April 11, 2012 – The world’s insatiable appetite for Canada’s twin endowments of vast natural resources and well-functioning institutions could unleash an unprecedented wave of prosperity, especially in the west. Yet at the very moment when these endowments could ...
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 15, 2011, Ottawa, ON – North America is now a deeply integrated, cross-border economy whose most important feature is not free trade in finished goods between Canadians and Americans. According to a new Commentary released today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), it is our ability to make things together and then sell ...
MEDIA RELEASE October 27, 2011, Ottawa, ON – With the expiry of the Canada Health Accord approaching in 2014, the federal government has an opportunity to begin meaningful reform of Canada’s healthcare system by learning the lessons of welfare reform from the 1990s. According to Jason Clemens, director of research of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), ...
Author recommends reforms to protect Canadians’ interests September 28, 2011, Ottawa, ON – The federal government is currently pursuing a major trade deal with Europe that, if left unchecked, would perpetuate a flaw in Canada’s trade model: The lack of safeguards of independence in those chosen to adjudicate disputes under trade agreements where investors from ...
Balancing Budgets: Good Politics, Good Policy Purposeful deficit reduction can result in electoral success September 7, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Contrary to the conventional view that deficit-cutting governments court political unpopularity, history shows that vigorous action to balance the budget and keep it balanced is both good economics and good politics. Yet, apparently inspired by ...
Crowley to Ottawa: Tear Down These Walls Ottawa has the duty, power and responsibility to remove trade barriers between Canadians June 15, 2011 – Ottawa – An aging population, an increasingly competitive world and a serious problem with productivity growth: these are the chief economic challenges that face Canada. Yet barriers to trade and movement ...
A focus on energy innovation, not regulation, is key to success for carbon-related problems June 8, 2011, Ottawa, ON – The current state of carbon policy is a messy tangle of energy, economic, environmental, and security problems that span North America and interact through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Good carbon policies can ...
A call for a thoughtful debate about Canada’s long term military ambitions and how to equip our armed forces June 1, 2011, Ottawa, ON – With Canada transitioning from a combat mission to a training one in Afghanistan, the government requesting Parliament to agree to an extension of its military mission in Libya, and the ...
