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. ...
May 30, 2011 – In today’s issue of the Hill Times, Brian Lee Crowley discusses Canada-U.S. border security and how “American administration officials can go too far and use highly-exaggerated claims of danger from Canada to justify enforcement actions out of all proportion to the problem”. Crowley states that there is a desire among our Congressional ...
On May 25, 2011, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Commentary, Secession and the Virtues of Clarity, written by the Hon. Stéphane Dion was covered on CBC’s Inside Politics Blog. CBC’s Chris Carter discusses Mr. Dion’s continued concern for pushing for clarity over the rules and tools for Canada in confronting the possibility of Quebec secession. Read full Commentary here
May 25, 2011 – Charles Adler invited MP Stéphane Dion on his Sun News Network TV show to discuss his Commentary, Secession and the Virtues of Clarity, released by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. In his Commentary, Mr. Dion said, “The break-up of a modern state such as Canada would be a very difficult goal to attain – and ...
With Quebec election looming, former Liberal leader picks up cudgels on behalf of democracy and the rule of law in deciding Quebec’s future. May 25, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Within a year the Province of Quebec faces a provincial election that, if the polls are to be believed, will return the Parti Quebecois to power, ...
