The resource sector doesn’t deserve the bad rap from some economists who have long disparaged it as an economic curse that stifles overall growth. On the contrary, growth in resources and other sectors can reinforce each other, writes Philip Cross. OTTAWA, May 8, 2013 – A myth-busting Macdonald-Laurier Institute study released today puts to rest the ...
Issues raised about methodology. Key findings & trends omitted. Questions raised about measuring crime. MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, February 21, 2013 – Statistics Canada is creating an incomplete portrayal of crime in this country because of the way it collects and collates data, a Macdonald-Laurier Institute study says. “The Statistics Canada data is a gold mine of ...
February 7, 2013 – The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente interviews MLI author Janice MacKinnon, former Saskatchewan NDP Finance Minister, in a new commentary on health care reform. The op-ed is based on MLI’s recent study, Health Care Reform From the Cradle of Medicare, by Ms. MacKinnon. Read the full Globe and Mail op-ed below. ...
February 1, 2013 – MLI’s latest study on health care reform by former Saskatchewan NDP Finance Minister Janice MacKinnon has been all over the news. In an op-ed for iPolitics, “From medicare’s cradle, sane ideas to save the system,” well-known political commentator Tasha Kheiriddin writes about the study and highlights Ms. MacKinnon’s recommendations. In the ...
Costs, including for hospitals, are crowding out other needed spending while creating inter-generational unfairness. Solutions include more provincial-led reforms such as use of efficient private clinics and indirect user fees. MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, January 31, 2013 – “As the oldest of the baby boomers turn 67 this year, the ‘fiscal squeeze’ looms larger and it’s ...
January 25, 2013 - In an interview with the Toronto Sun on prison radicalization, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner says, “This isn’t to say that all inmates will become radicals, or even that many will, but it is to suggest that prison represents a potentially good window of opportunity for spreading radical views and recruiting others to ...
High commodity prices do not account for all of Canadian dollar strength. Manufacturing resuming lead role in post-recession growth. MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, January 16, 2013 – After 10 years of a muscular dollar, Canadian manufacturers have adapted well to a strong currency – demonstrating that Dutch Disease is economic myth rather than reality. These are key ...
December 3, 2012 – The National Post seeks the advice of MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner in an article discussing how to rehabilitate convicted terrorists and also quotes from Wilner’s MLI study on the topic. An excerpt below: By contrast, Canada has relatively few terror convicts but that should allow the government to build a “tailored and ...
Improve incentives for farmers to provide ecological goods & services MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, Nov. 15, 2012 – Canada has an opportunity to recruit farmers to play a greater role in managing and protecting the rural environment, according to a Macdonald-Laurier Institute research paper. Unfortunately we are frequently squandering our own efforts to learn how to ...
November 1, 2012 – MLI research co-ordinator Philip Cross and author Marc Joffe write about the provincial default crisis in op-eds published in the Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Saskatoon’s StarPhoenix, and Chronicle Herald! An excerpt from the Vancouver Sun: Alberta has the most risk 30 years out, the byproduct of today’s youthful population growing old later and its ...
