March 24, 2012 – In his new column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley outlines several reforms that would help facilitate a more constructive focus to the National Energy Board’s work while balancing opponents’ rights to be heard with the country’s right to reach informed decisions in a timely manner. The full column is below. Seeking a cure for ...
In iPolitics today, MLI’s Jason Clemens writes about the need for tax reform in the upcoming federal budget. The op-ed is based on his recently released briefing paper on the same topic. Tax reform needed in upcoming budget By Jason Clemens, iPolitics, March 20, 2012 The focus to-date on the Conservatives’ first majority budget has ...
March 19, 2012 – In his column for The Hill Times today, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley writes about fishery reform on the East Coast and the use of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) to guarantee a fisherman’s share of the catch. The full column is copied below. Most successful fishing nations give fishers a right to a share of the catch ...
We have garnered a great deal of media attention since the March 14th release of our report , Making oil and water mix: Oil tanker traffic on Canada’s West Coast. A complete list of media interviews on this study are listed below: March 14, 2012 – Sun TV’s Right Now with Caryn Lieberman interviewed MLI’s director ...
March 16, 2012 – In today’s Vancouver Sun, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley and Jason Clemens write about the environmental, economic and legal impact of banning oil tankers on the West Coast. According to Crowley and Clemens, “The loss of jobs and income to Canadians and conflict with the U.S. that would be occasioned by a ...
In an op-ed for The Daily Caller published on March 13, 2012, Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards highlights MLI’s work on corporate income tax by director of research Jason Clemens: In 2009, Canada was dragged into a recession by the elephant economy next door, and that knocked the wind out of corporate tax revenues. However, it is remarkable ...
March 16, 2012 – On Wednesday March 14, 2012, Michael Bliss and John Fraser debated the resolution, Monarchy is a dangerous anachronism, with moderator Jack Granatstein at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. In case you missed the debate, you can watch it tonight on CPAC at 9 pm or tomorrow, March 17, at 10 am. You ...
March 10, 2012 – In today’s Ottawa Citizen, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley writes about the greater degree of freedom Canada now enjoys in its relationship with the U.S. The full column below: Advantage, Canada Regardless who wins the U.S. election in November, Canadians will be holding more cards than we have in the past, ...
In the March 2012 issue of Policy Options released by the Institute for Research on Public Policy, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley and economics professor Kristina Lybecker write an article calling for Canada to strengthen its pharmaceutical intellectual property protection. Crowley and Lybecker say, “Strengthening Canada’s intellectual property framework to reflect global best practices is not only a ...
May 3, 2012 – In today’s Windsor Star, MLI author Kristina Lybecker recommends changes to Canadian legislation that would help strengthen pharmaceutical intellectual property protection. Lybecker says, “By adopting global legislative best practices, specifically those that characterize innovation-intensive nations, Canada could attract additional pharmaceutical research and development investment and gain the research jobs that would follow.” The ...
