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 ...
In the July 21, 2011 edition of the Moncton Times & Transcript, Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley and Toronto-based electricity consultant Tom Adams discuss how “Canadians should be entitled to an open national electricity system where no province can hold its neighbours hostage and where power can be bought and sold freely.” The commentary coincides with the recent ...
On July 19, 2011, the Ottawa Citizen published an article by MLI author Ian Lee who discusses a number of important reasons to modernize the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) in Canada. In the article, he cites MLI’s paper on mortgage insurance as offering some “compelling recommendations” to modernizing CMHC. An excerpt from the article outlining the reasons to ...
On July 16, 2011, the National Post published an article by Robert Fulford, MLI Advisory Council member, where he comments on the use of cultural relativism in a recent op-ed piece, “Before You Judge, Stand in Her Shoes”, in The New York Times. On cultural relativism, he says, “It limits us whenever we try to think in public about ...
June 27, 2011 – In today’s issue of The Hill Times, Brian Lee Crowley discusses the legacy of Tommy Douglas and how “those who call down the former Saskatchewan premier’s name in defence of their policy hardly seem to know whom they are talking about. For if the NDP were truly the party of T.C. ...
June 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 writes about how the presence of present-day German soldiers at the Menin Gate Memorial ceremony in Ypres, Belgium is a lesson that nations can change. An excerpt below: But now ...
