iPolitics: Ottawa should increase foreign investment threshold
February 14, 2012February 14, 2012 – MLI’s latest Straight Talk with Laura Dawson on foreign direct investment is published in full on iPolitics. Click here to read the full issue!
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Straight Talk with Laura Dawson: Contradictory signals on foreign investment hurting Canada
February 13, 2012MLI author shows how to reconcile openness to investment and protecting the national interest MEDIA RELEASE February 13, 2012, Ottawa, ON - Canada’s well-educated workforce, stable economic environment, competitive business tax regime, access to natural resources and formal openness to business investment make us an attractive destination for foreign investment in our economy. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ...
Straight Talk: End supply management to give better value to consumers, secure new trade deals
November 22, 2011MEDIA RELEASE November 22, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Canadian agriculture is among the most protected parts of our economy, in large part because of government-sponsored cartels, referred to as “supply management”. These cartels benefit the farmers involved by restricting output and fixing prices well above competitive levels. These monopolies have also stifled productivity in Canadian ...
Straight Talk – Honouring the promise: A roadmap to improve service, benefits and support for Canada’s veterans
November 9, 2011MEDIA RELEASE November 9, 2011, Ottawa ON – Canada can and should be doing a much better job in ensuring that Canada’s veterans get the help and support their service to our country merits. That’s the central message from retired Brigadier-General James Cox in a new Remembrance Day edition of Straight Talk released by the Macdonald-Laurier ...
Straight Talk: Reforming Canada’s treatment of DNA collection would help reduce crime
October 3, 2011DNA Modernization Missing from Government’s Crime Bill October 3, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Bill C-10, the government’s crime legislation, overlooks the opportunity to modernize laws regarding DNA forensic evidence. The bill therefore neglects one of the single most effective reforms that Ottawa could enact to solve and reduce the most serious violent offences according to ...
Straight Talk: Enhancing Canadians’ safety through corrections and parole reform for repeat offenders
September 12, 2011September 13, 2011, Ottawa, ON – A disproportionately large volume of crime in this country is committed by a disproportionately small number of offenders. Dealing effectively with these repeat offenders is central to improving the public safety of Canadians according to the latest instalment in the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s newest series, Straight Talk, in which crime-expert ...
