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 ...
MLI author says that the costs far outweigh the benefits when it comes to reducing transportation-related GHG emissions MEDIA RELEASE February 22, 2012, Ottawa, ON – Canadians overwhelmingly depend on the convenience and savings of private automobiles. Despite this, policymakers are constantly solicited to use public policy to reduce private vehicle use and increase use ...
February 14, 2012 – In today’s Ottawa Citizen, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley and Jason Clemens discuss the costs of an aging population. In particular, they focus on the need for health care reform. The column is based on the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s recent collected essays series examining the challenges and solutions to our aging society, Canada’s Looming ...
February 7, 2012 – MLI’s recently released study, Canada’s Looming Fiscal Squeeze: Collected Essays on Solutions, is highlighed in a Financial Post exclusive published today! The FP summarizes the key ideas from the collected essays on how to solve Canada’s looming demographic deficit. Authors are Bev Dahlby (U of Alberta), Janice MacKinnon (U of Saskatchewan and former NDP finance minister, SK), Ron Kneebone (U ...
MEDIA RELEASE February 7, 2012, Ottawa, ON – Canada will soon face the full burden of an aging society. The greying and eventual retirement of the baby boomers will cause national income growth and tax revenues to slow and public programs such as health care and income support for seniors to become more costly. In ...
MEDIA RELEASE February 1, 2012, Ottawa, ON – The Atlantic Integrated Commercial Fishery Initiative (AICFI) represents a unique and successful program for Aboriginal management of natural resources, specifically in program implementation, conception, and delivery. These are the conclusions of a major evaluation of the program carried out by Professor Jacquelyn Thayer Scott for the Macdonald-Laurier ...
New papers recommend changes to Canada’s patent regime MEDIA RELEASE January 24, 2012, Ottawa, ON – Canada’s complacency in intellectual property (IP) is threatening its relative position in the global pharmaceutical industry and changes are needed in IP protection to re-establish Canada as a global competitor. According to two new papers published today by the ...
December 21, 2011 – In today’s Vancouver Sun, MLI’s Jason Clemens and Brian Lee Crowley discuss the recently announced Canada Health Accord between the federal and provincial governments. They say, “Ottawa’s plan is to make some token effort at cost control in five years’ time. That’s five years too late. Refusing to turn up the ...
December 12, 2011 – In an op-ed in today’s Windsor Star, MLI author Larry Martin discusses why our agricultural future lies mostly with bigger efficient farms. His explanation is below. The op-ed is based on MLI’s recently released study, Canadian Agriculture and Food: A Growing Hunger for Change, by Larry Martin and Kate Stiefelmeyer. Building farms to compete internationally ...
