Over the past month, MLI has received some media attention worth noting! On September 1, 2011, The Globe and Mail posted MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner’s 2010 Senate Testimony on prison radicalization in full as a backgrounder to an article, Canada’s imprisoned bomb-plotters say their isolation does not fit the crime. On September 5, 2011, The ...
September 25, 2011 – According to MLI Senior Fellow Laura Dawson in a recently released op-ed, the proposed American Jobs Act contains Buy American measures that will not only hurt Canadian manufacturers and suppliers, but will hurt the economic competitiveness of both Canada and the United States. The op-ed appeared in the The Toronto Star ...
September 24, 2011 – Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath and her candidates are shouting from the rooftops that NDP governments “have run fewer deficit budgets than any other party.” In his latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley points out that the Ontario NDP shouldn’t take credit for the fiscal record ...
September 19, 2011 – In his monthly column for The Hill Times, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the Canadian criminal justice system and proposed reforms. He says, “Canada must indeed be vigilant to avoid the excesses of the American justice system. The government has an obligation to justify its corrections policies in terms of the ...
September 13, 2011 – In today’s National Post, MLI author Scott Newark evaluates Canada’s corrections and parole systems in dealing with repeat offenders. The op-ed (below) is based on the latest instalment in MLI’s newest series, Straight Talk. Newark also appeared on a number of shows to discuss this topic. He appeared on CKOM’s John ...
September 10, 2011 – On the 10-year anniversary of September 11th, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses what America means to him in his Ottawa Citizen column. He recalls a newspaper column he wrote about the terrorist attacks 10 years ago and says that “nothing in the intervening decade has changed my view” about what America means ...
September 9, 2011 – In today’s Globe and Mail, MLI Director of Research Jason Clemens discusses how purposeful action to eliminate budget deficits relying on spending reductions rather than tax increases can be a foundation for not only sound economic policy, but electoral success. He uses historical evidence from both Canadian provincial governments as well as the federal government ...
In the September 5th, 2011 issue of the Toronto Star, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the latest comments by Conrad Black against the government’s tougher sentencing bills, prison expansion plans, and prisoner control programs. In the article, Crowley said Black is unlikely to sway the debate in Canada “partly because…he’s in kind of a conflict ...
August 23, 2011 – During the National Policy Retreat for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley was honoured to be invited to chair the off-the-record policy retreat discussions in Wakefield, Quebec. The Finance Minister’s Summer Retreat was an innovation in economic consultation Crowley designed for Minister Flaherty when he was the Clifford ...
August 22, 2011 – In the latest issue of Vanguard Magazine, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the importance of rethinking the Canada-U.S. border. Crowley says, “The time has come to create a joint committee of Congress and Parliament charged with the oversight of the Canada-U.S. relationship, holding hearings, issuing reports, and taking their ...
