November 2, 2011 – In his latest column for The Hill Times, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the opportunity Canada has to feed the world. However, he says that ”the heavy bureaucracy charged with regulating new products and methods in the field of food production and processing is creating obstacles to innovation and new ...
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 ...
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 ...
September 28, 2011 – In today’s National Post, new MLI Senior Fellow and Law Professor Benjamin Perrin discusses the criminal justice reforms included in the Safe Streets and Communities Act. He says, “While not perfect, the bill introduces numerous reforms that will improve our nation’s criminal justice system.” Article below: The government’s omnibus crime ...
September 24, 2011 – Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath and her candidates are shouting from the rooftops that NDP governments “have run fewer deficit budgets than any other party.” In his latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley points out that the Ontario NDP shouldn’t take credit for the fiscal record ...
September 19, 2011 – In his monthly column for The Hill Times, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the Canadian criminal justice system and proposed reforms. He says, “Canada must indeed be vigilant to avoid the excesses of the American justice system. The government has an obligation to justify its corrections policies in terms of the ...
September 10, 2011 – On the 10-year anniversary of September 11th, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses what America means to him in his Ottawa Citizen column. He recalls a newspaper column he wrote about the terrorist attacks 10 years ago and says that “nothing in the intervening decade has changed my view” about what America means ...
July 2011 – Jack Granatstein, a member of MLI’s Research Advisory Board, writes a monthly column for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. This month, he comments on a recent Globe and Mail article on how the Harper government is giving the military a role in citizenship ceremonies. Granatstein takes issue with a comment in the article ...
July 23, 2011 – The Roy Green Show invited MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley on the radio program this past Saturday (guest host Whitney Deane) to further discuss interprovincial subsidies, a topic he recently discussed on the July 22nd Rutherford radio program, and equalization payments. The discussion follows after the recent comments made by Premier Dalton McGuinty that the oil & gas ...
July 22, 2011 – The Rutherford Show invited MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley on the radio show today (guest host Roy Green) at 12:05pm ET to discuss interprovincial subsidies after the recent comments made by Premier Dalton McGuinty that the oil & gas industry is being subsidized by Ontario. In the interview, Crowley says that the oil & gas ...
