December 7, 2011
December 7, 2010 - MLI’s recently released study on the threats to Canada’s critical infrastructure was highlighted in the Toronto Sun. In the article, author Andrew Graham discusses specifically how Canada’s cyber security is at risk. He said that Canada’s banking systems, transportation corridors, power plants and oil pipelines increasingly depend on remote-controlled sensors and computers vulnerable to ...
December 6, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE December 6, 2011 – Like the air that we breathe, we are not aware of the extent to which our lives depend on the critical infrastructure (CI) that surrounds us, operating quietly in the background. Much of that infrastructure is relatively fragile, extremely vulnerable, and poorly protected from those who might wish to ...
December 3, 2011
December 3, 2011 – In his newest column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the upside of “downloading” – cutting transfers to provinces in order to balance federal budgets. He uses welfare reform of the 1990s to explain the benefits. He said that by reducing the amount of money given ...
November 25, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE The $67 billion deficit in Canada’s future Slower economic growth coupled with higher spending on age-related programs and health care will cause a 4.2 percent (GDP) deficit by 2040 November 3, 2011, Ottawa, ON – With the fall economic update approaching, now is the time for Canadians and their governments to begin thinking ...
November 25, 2011
November 25, 2011 – In today’s Financial Post, MLI author Christopher Ragan discusses the fiscal squeeze created by our aging population. The op-ed (below) is based on MLI’s recently released study, Canada’s Looming Fiscal Squeeze, by Ragan. Demographic Debt Wall The aging of the population is creating a fiscal squeeze By Christopher Ragan, Financial Post, November ...
November 23, 2011
November 23, 2011 – In today’s Wall Street Journal, Paul Vieira quotes MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley in an article discussing the fiscal condition of Canada’s 10 provinces. Crowley said, “We are in danger of squandering the great [fiscal] advances that Canada achieved precisely because we are not willing to confront the issues raised by ...
November 15, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE October 25, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Incidents like the August 2010 arrival of the Sun Sea shipload of asylum seekers have highlighted Canada’s vulnerability to migrant smuggling. A failure to respond effectively to and deter such migrant smuggling risks emboldening those who engage in this illicit enterprise. According to author Benjamin Perrin in ...
November 14, 2011
In today’s National Post, MLI Senior Fellow Benjamin Perrin analyzes Bill C-4, the Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada’s Immigration System Act. The op-ed (copied below) is based on the recently released paper, Migrant Smuggling: Canada’s Response to a Global Criminal Enterprise by Perrin. Click here to read the media release. Benjamin Perrin: A better ...
November 8, 2011
November 8, 2011 – Our recent study, What Do Muslim Canadians Want?, has received a great deal of attention and has sparked a lot of debate since its November 1st release. Journalist Kris Sims wrote an article summarizing the key findings of the study in the Toronto Sun. It was reprinted in the online news source Canoe.ca and discussed in a number ...
November 8, 2011
On November 4th, the Vancouver Sun published an op-ed by MLI director of research Jason Clemens on health care reform. Clemens said, “The federal government has an opportunity to begin meaningful reform of Canada’s health care system by learning the lessons of welfare reform from the 1990s. Specifically, he said, “The federal government should announce that ...
