November 3, 2011 – In today’s National Post, reporter Derek Abma discussed MLI’s recent study by economics professor Christopher Ragan of McGill University. The study, Canada’s Looming Fiscal Squeeze, focuses on the coming fiscal challenges brought on by an aging population and the need for Canadian governments to act now or “risk a situation of unsustainable public ...
November 3, 2011 – In today’s Vancouver Sun, MLI author Larry Martin writes about how Canada should be poised to capitalize on the opportunity to feed the world. He says, “We are uniquely positioned due to our vast tracts of arable land, abundant water, infrastructure and long experience in the sector. And yet Canadian agriculture and agri-food ...
In the November 1, 2011 issue of The Globe and Mail, columnist Neil Reynolds writes about MLI’s recently released study by Larry Martin and Kate Stiefelmeyer on the opportunity Canada has to feed the world. In the study, Canadian Agriculture and Food: A Growing Hunger for Change, Martin and Stiefelmeyer argue that “we are uniquely positioned to benefit from the ...
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). ...
October 28, 2011 – Today, the Financial Post published an op-ed by MLI director of research Jason Clemens on healthcare reform. Welfare and Health Make health spending more effective by employing the same approach used for welfare By Jason Clemens, Financial Post, October 28, 2011 The First Ministers will meet later this fall to begin ...
MEDIA RELEASE October 27, 2011, Ottawa, ON – With the expiry of the Canada Health Accord approaching in 2014, the federal government has an opportunity to begin meaningful reform of Canada’s healthcare system by learning the lessons of welfare reform from the 1990s. According to Jason Clemens, director of research of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), ...
In his latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley writes about how Stephen Harper still struggles with Quebec issues. Brian uses two recent decisions that show that Harper is “still feeling his way, pulled in different directions by powerful forces.” For example, in the naval shipbuilding contract, the Conservatives spared no effort to come ...
MEDIA RELEASE October 17, 2011, Ottawa, ON – More food will be eaten over the next half century than has been eaten by human beings since the dawn of history. The combination of increasing population and rising incomes, decreasing poverty, and increased non-food use for many food staples (e.g. bio-fuels) has resulted in an explosion ...
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 ...
October 11, 2011 – In his latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses why Premier Dalton McGuinty may owe his re-election at least in part to Ontario voters’ view of the new federal political status quo in comparison to anything he did to earn the election himself or to the weakness of his ...
