In today’s Financial Post, MLI’s Philip Cross discusses how politics may have played a part in naming Steve Poloz as the new Governor of the Bank of Canada, but maybe not for the reasons many pundits believe. Is Poloz Carney’s legacy? Philip Cross, Special to Financial Post, May 7, 2013 Former governor tarnished the Bank’s ...
January 31, 2013 – In a column published today in Postmedia newspapers, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley writes about why a simple majority in a referendum is undemocratic. He says, “A clear majority of Quebecers need to vote yes to a clear question before the rest of the country must sit down and discuss secession.” Read his ...
January 31, 2013 – In a new op-ed for the Financial Post, MLI’s Philip Cross says the relationship between the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) and the government no longer serves the purpose either originally intended and it is time to start over with a clean slate at the PBO. Clean house at PBO By Philip ...
January 18, 2013 – In his latest Postmedia column, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley says that anyone who still believes that Liberals and New Democrats are natural soul mates is clearly not paying attention. He writes, “The cross-border embrace between premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford underlines afresh that Liberals have more in common ...
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 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 ...
First-past-the-post delivers governments able to make decisions MEDIA RELEASE October 11, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Recent provincial elections in Ontario, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island resulted in gaps between the popular vote and seat counts, causing some to revisit the idea of proportional representation. According to author John Pepall in MLI’s new paper Laying the ...
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 ...
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. ...
