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 ...
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 ...
MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, September 27, 2012 – Canada should eliminate barriers to market entry if it wants to foster the innovation needed to improve our productivity, according to a Macdonald-Laurier Institute True North study released today. While governments make much of their desire to promote innovation, it is difficult for them to do so directly ...
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 ...
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 – 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 ...
MEDIA RELEASE November 1, 2011, Ottawa, ON – At a time when Muslims constitute one of Canada’s fastest growing immigrant communities and Islam the fastest-growing religion, Canadians will find much to reassure them, but also much to ponder, in a new study of Muslim public opinion in Canada published today by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI). ...
DNA Modernization Missing from Government’s Crime Bill October 3, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Bill C-10, the government’s crime legislation, overlooks the opportunity to modernize laws regarding DNA forensic evidence. The bill therefore neglects one of the single most effective reforms that Ottawa could enact to solve and reduce the most serious violent offences according to ...
September 13, 2011 – In today’s National Post, MLI author Scott Newark evaluates Canada’s corrections and parole systems in dealing with repeat offenders. The op-ed (below) is based on the latest instalment in MLI’s newest series, Straight Talk. Newark also appeared on a number of shows to discuss this topic. He appeared on CKOM’s John ...
September 13, 2011, Ottawa, ON – A disproportionately large volume of crime in this country is committed by a disproportionately small number of offenders. Dealing effectively with these repeat offenders is central to improving the public safety of Canadians according to the latest instalment in the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s newest series, Straight Talk, in which crime-expert ...
