On May 8, 2012, MLI authors Kate Stiefelmeyer and Larry Martin appeared before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry to discuss their MLI study, Canadian Agriculture and Food: A Growing Hunger for Change, released in October 2011. The Committee focused on research and innovation efforts in the agricultural sector and invited Stiefelmeyer and Martin ...
Complexity no reason for inaction says MLI research director, but reason to ensure understanding precedes policy choices MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, April 30, 2012 – On the eve of International Workers Day most people brace themselves for a spate of stories detailing the woefully unjust state of Canadian and other western societies, particularly when seen through ...
MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, April 25, 2012 – Canada has a unique opportunity to assert itself as a world leader in helping developing countries by supporting Honduras in its effort to create a new city with an innovative governance model, two prominent thinkers argue in a paper released today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI). In fact, according ...
End boutique credits, lower tax rates and strengthen economic growth says MLI’s Jason Clemens MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, March 20, 2012 – Thanks to years of tinkering by successive governments of all political stripes, Canada’s current tax system is littered with tax credits, deductions, and other special treatments that cost the treasury billions but often produce ...
MLI authors show ban would mean job losses, lower income, disputes with the U.S. and almost no discernible environmental benefits MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, March 14, 2012 – Recent opposition bills in Parliament have proposed a ban on oil tanker traffic through West Coast waters with the goal of pre-emptively preventing the possibility of an oil ...
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 ...
Author urges thorough review of Canada’s mortgage insurance system to ensure fairness and sustainability MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, March 5, 2012 – As the debt crisis continues to reverberate in countries around the world, a new briefing paper released by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute recommends a thorough review of Canada’s mortgage finance system. Among other issues, the ...
March 2, 2012 – In today’s National Post, MLI’s Jason Clemens and Brian Lee Crowley discuss how we can address the coming costs of health care and retirement by focusing on growth and productivity. The op-ed is based on the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s recent study, Canada’s Looming Fiscal Squeeze: Collected Essays on Solutions. The full column below: ...
New report proposes solutions to major vulnerabilities in Canada’s national security framework MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, February 29, 2012 – Canadians’ daily lives depend on running water, electricity, safe roads, ready access to medical care, food, and the Internet. Yet a new report, released today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says we have no plans to protect ...
