October 13, 2011 – Following the release of MLI’s newest paper on electoral reform by author John Pepall, both the paper and an op-ed on the same topic were published on iPolitics.ca. The op-ed also appeared on Huffington Post Canada. Pepall also appeared on The Rob Breakenridge Show (Alberta) and on John Gormley Live (Saskatchewan) to discuss why ...
First-past-the-post delivers governments able to make decisions MEDIA RELEASE October 11, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Recent provincial elections in Ontario, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island resulted in gaps between the popular vote and seat counts, causing some to revisit the idea of proportional representation. According to author John Pepall in MLI’s new paper Laying the ...
On June 30, 2011, The Windsor Star published Ian Blue’s op-ed discussing how a single wrong-headed legal decision from Canada’s distant past has obscured and virtually destroyed our Constitution’s strong guarantees of free trade within the country. The op-ed is based on MLI’s recent paper, Free Trade within Canada: Say Goodbye to Gold Seal, written ...
Since the June 15th release of MLI’s paper written by Ian Blue on interprovincial trade barriers, Free Trade within Canada: Say Goodbye to Gold Seal, it has received a lot of media attention. It appeared in the Financial Post on June 16th, in iPolitics.ca on June 17th, and in the Telegraph Journal on June 20th ...
FP Comment, June 16, 2011 Constitution requires goods ‘be admitted free’ By Ian Blue Canadians pay high but hidden costs thanks to interprovincial trade barriers. As countless analyses show, agricultural marketing boards, provincial liquor monopolies, and provincial product regulations are just a few of the many government policies that frustrate trade and make Canadians worse ...
The Canadian Wheat Board, agricultural marketing boards and provincial liquor monopolies may be open to legal challenge June 15, 2011, Ottawa, ON – In the latest paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, senior commercial litigator and energy lawyer Ian Blue argues that a single wrong-headed legal decision from Canada’s distant past has obscured and virtually destroyed ...
Les Pères de la Confédération sont communément perçus comme de simples opérateurs politiques ; ni instruits ni philosophes. On nous conseille souvent de ne pas chercher dans leurs paroles une défense des principes du régime parlementaire ou du fédéralisme, et encore moins une argumentation voulant que l’héritage constitutionnel britannique soit l’instrument idéal pour préserver nos ...
Who’s Who On the Cover The eight portraits on the cover of Confederation and Individual Liberty depict statesmen and thinkers discussed in the text who played an important role in the development of Canada’s Constitutional guarantee of responsible liberty under law. The first reader who correctly identifies all eight (listed from smallest to largest on ...
[please note: This contest is now closed.] Today MLI released Confederation and Individual Liberty by Janet Ajzenstat, the first in a planned series on Canada’s Founding Ideas. Readers of the paper will be immediately struck by the historical images on the cover…images of statesmen and thinkers discussed in the paper. Our Managing Editor, John Robson, ...
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute today published the first of a planned series of papers on Canada’s Founding Ideas. “Confederation and Individual Liberty”, by acclaimed Canadian scholar Janet Ajzenstat, celebrates the founding of Canada and those Founders who played key roles intellectually and in their actions. Ajzenstat makes a forceful, fact-based case that Canada stands on strong, ...
