June 4, 2011 – In his regular column for The Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the Senate reform proposed by the government and how it “would create an elected but democratically unaccountable Senate.” An excerpt below: A lot of people think democracy just means getting elected in the first place. Real democracy, ...
On May 24, 2011, Moncton Times & Transcript published MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley and Stephen Blank’s op-ed, “Better institutions are needed for a full auto sector recovery” based on their Commentary on auto manufacturing and the future of North America. Crowley and Blank write that there are a “number of public policy challenges, one of ...
May 17, 2011 – In today’s Montreal Gazette, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley and Stephen Blank discuss the barriers that are impeding the full recovery of the auto sector. Crowley and Blank write that there are a “number of public policy challenges, one of which is that the three NAFTA countries all continue to treat the ...
Governance failing to keep pace with continental integration May 12, 2011, Ottawa, ON – There is a remarkable contradiction between the reality of the North American economy, which is deeply integrated and North American governance, which is weak, fragmented, and often uninformed. That contradiction is threatening the competitiveness and indeed very future, not only of ...
March 25, 2011 – Today the Macdonald-Laurier Institute issued the first in a series of papers on pharmaceutical policy called Pills, Patents & Profits. Pharmaceutical policy is vitally important in Canada because of the high cost of drugs and their increasingly central role in improving the health and life expectancy of Canadians. Applying documented practical ...
Christopher Sands, a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, recently published a briefing paper on U.S.–Canadian border cooperation in which he explores the implications of the recent bilateral summit between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama. This paper, “The Canada Gambit: Will it Revive North America?”, ...
On March 16, 2011, the Ottawa citizen published an article by William Watson, Associate Professor of Economics at McGill University and member of the MLI Research Advisory Board. In his article, Watson states “though many who have taken to the streets in the Middle East in the last two months have expressed their hunger for ...
On March 12th, MLI contributors Dr. Robert W. Murray and Dr. Anita Dey Nuttall of the University of Alberta were in the Windsor Star with an Op Ed titled, Why the Arctic matters. First published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute on February 28, 2011, the authors raise substantial questions, as the lead indicates, “Canadians care about ...
MLI’s Managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley, appears in today’s editorial pages of the Edmonton Journal in an op ed that asks the important question: Who pays when provinces misbehave? The Journal article makes timely reference to MLI’s recently-released MLI Commentary, AbitibiBowater, Democracy and the Public Interest. That Commentary succinctly pointed out that mechanisms are needed ...
OTTAWA, ON, Mar. 10, 2011/ – Troy Media/ – What should Canada do when provinces behave badly, damage Canada, and then send the bill to Ottawa? That’s the question the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade should be trying to answer right now. Unfortunately it is not the one they’ve been asked. The bad behaviour ...
