February 21, 2011
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute today released a Commentary, Prison Radicalization in Canada: More needs to be done, dealing with the increasingly important and contentious issue of how we handle terrorists in our penal system. Following on last October’s groundbreaking MLI publication, From Rehabilitation to Recruitment, Alex Wilner and Brian Lee Crowley target the continuing overall lack ...
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.
February 14, 2011
Ottawa, February 14, 2011 – The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Trading in Superstitions, by Institute Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley, that took aim at harmful superstitions Canadians and Americans hold about one another that interfere with effective cooperation on trade and security. Based on a speech to the National Strategy Forum in ...
February 7, 2011
February 07, 2011 – Ottawa The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Manufacturing Competitiveness, by Martinrea International Chairman and Chairman of the MLI Board Rob Wildeboer. This latest MLI publication lets politicians and public policy decision-makers know precisely what is needed allow Canadian manufacturing to flourish in the future, as it has in the ...
January 31, 2011
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute today released a Commentary on the hot topic of corporate income tax (CIT). This latest MLI publication, Corporate Income Tax: Stay the Course, provides a timely primer for politicians of all stripes as Budget 2011 is readied for release. Author and MLI Fellow Jason Clemens provides pointed advice to Finance Minister Jim ...
November 5, 2010
Canadians will commemorate veterans on November 11, as we have every year since Remembrance Day was established in 1919. Each and every one of us should honour the sacrifice of so many of our valiant ancestors and current-day heroes. Yet too often we forget that with remembrance of their past deeds comes an obligation to ...
October 30, 2010
On October 21st, the Government of Canada introduced its response to the August arrival of almost 500 Tamil refugee claimants aboard the ‘Sun Sea’. Within days of the arrival of the ‘Sun Sea’ the Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a Commentary on the human-smuggling challenge faced by Canada. Authored by the former head of the Canadian Police ...
October 27, 2010
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today published a Commentary by Managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley. Based on his remarks at a recent conference in Brussels on The Future of the West – Trans-Atlantic Relations in a More Difficult Environment, it argues that without a shared commitment to liberty the Western alliance that fought two World Wars ...
October 21, 2010
MLI Commentary: Stéphane Dion debating secession /Commentaire IML: Stéphane Dion débat la sécession The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today published a Commentary by the Hon. Stéphane Dion. The text is based on his speaking notes used in a debate at l’Université Laval in Quebec City on September 20, 2010. The topic of the debate, organised by ...
October 20, 2010
MLI’s managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley, spoke to the Federal/Provincial and Territorial Ministers Responsible for Seniors on July 6th in Fredericton. The topic… “As our population ages Canada faces a looming labour shortage. We are not thinking very clearly about the problems involved because for decades we have regarded unemployment as the most probable and ...