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		<title>MLI Paper: Gasoline tax would need to rise by $2.30 per litre to cut motor vehicle GHG emissions by 30 percent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MLI author says that the costs far outweigh the benefits when it comes to reducing transportation-related GHG emissions MEDIA RELEASE February 22, 2012, Ottawa, ON – Canadians overwhelmingly depend on the convenience and savings of private automobiles. Despite this, policymakers are constantly solicited to use public policy to reduce private vehicle use and increase use [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/mli-paper-gasoline-tax-would-need-to-rise-by-2-30-per-litre-to-cut-motor-vehicle-ghg-emissions-by-30-percent/</link>
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		<title>Update from the second annual Macdonald-Laurier Soirée</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our second annual Macdonald-Laurier Soirée took place on February 15th. Want to know more about the evening? All you have to do is read about it in the Ottawa Citizen, The Hill Times and iPolitics! Also, check out a few photos from the evening below. More details including video to follow. Related posts:Our second annual Macdonald-Laurier Soirée is [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/update-from-the-second-annual-macdonald-laurier-soiree/</link>
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		<title>The Hill Times: Sell to China, but never change who we are to do so</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 20, 2012 &#8211; In today&#8217;s Hill Times column, MLI&#8217;s Brian Lee Crowley discusses trade with China. Crowley says, &#8220;There is a great deal of pressure within Canada not to say anything that might &#8216;offend&#8217; the Chinese&#8230;because the subtext is that they will punish us economically if we dare speak our minds.&#8221; What should we do? He [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/the-hill-times-canada%e2%80%99s-monumental-economic-challenge-our-increasingly-schizophrenic-attitude-to-natural-resource-development/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Hill Times &#8211; Canada’s monumental economic challenge: Our increasingly schizophrenic attitude to natural resource development'>The Hill Times &#8211; Canada’s monumental economic challenge: Our increasingly schizophrenic attitude to natural resource development</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/the-hill-times-sell-to-china-but-never-change-who-we-are-to-do-so/</link>
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		<title>iPolitics: Ottawa should increase foreign investment threshold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 14, 2012 &#8211; MLI&#8217;s latest Straight Talk with Laura Dawson on foreign direct investment is published in full on iPolitics. Click here to read the full issue! &#160; &#160; Related posts:Straight Talk with Laura Dawson: Contradictory signals on foreign investment hurting Canada iPolitics: Noise on pension reform impedes honest dialogue iPolitics.ca &#8211; &#8220;Quebec separation [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/ipolitics-ottawa-should-increase-foreign-investment-threshold/</link>
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		<title>Ottawa Citizen: Waiting for a health-care crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 14, 2012 &#8211; In today&#8217;s Ottawa Citizen, MLI&#8217;s Brian Lee Crowley and Jason Clemens discuss the costs of an aging population. In particular, they focus on the need for health care reform. The column is based on the Macdonald-Laurier Institute&#8217;s recent collected essays series examining the challenges and solutions to our aging society, Canada’s Looming [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/ottawa-citizen-waiting-for-a-health-care-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Straight Talk with Laura Dawson: Contradictory signals on foreign investment hurting Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MLI 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) [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/straight-talk-with-laura-dawson-contradictory-signals-on-foreign-investment-hurting-canada/</link>
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		<title>Ottawa Citizen: Subsidizing poorly performing parts of Canada can&#8217;t substitute for policy choices that foster prosperity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 11, 2012 &#8211; In today&#8217;s Ottawa Citizen, MLI&#8217;s Brian Lee Crowley discusses how subsidizing poorly performing parts of Canada is in truth a policy of refusing to make people face the consequences of the poor policy choices they have made over the years. He says, &#8220;And until we change that, both Canadians and newcomers [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/ottawa-citizen-subsidizing-poorly-performing-parts-of-canada-cant-substitute-for-policy-choices-that-foster-prosperity/</link>
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		<title>MLI&#8217;s Alex Wilner in Embassy Magazine on Canada&#8217;s Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Deterrence Through Disclosure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 10, 2012 &#8211; In today&#8217;s Embassy Magazine, MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner discusses the recently unveiled counter-terrorism strategy. Wilner says, &#8221;The benefits of publishing the strategy far outweigh the costs. It is not only a question of government accountability or of pushing counter-terrorism up the priority list. It is not even chiefly about promoting an [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/mlis-alex-wilner-in-embassy-magazine-on-canadas-counter-terrorism-strategy-deterrence-through-disclosure/</link>
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		<title>Financial Post Exclusive: Five ideas to raise the money we’ll need to deal with health care for a rapidly aging population</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 7, 2012 &#8211; MLI&#8217;s recently released study, Canada’s Looming Fiscal Squeeze: Collected Essays on Solutions, is highlighed in a Financial Post exclusive published today! The FP summarizes the key ideas from the collected essays on how to solve Canada’s looming demographic deficit. Authors are Bev Dahlby (U of Alberta), Janice MacKinnon (U of Saskatchewan and former NDP finance minister, SK), Ron Kneebone (U [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/financial-post-exclusive-five-ideas-to-raise-the-money-we%e2%80%99ll-need-to-deal-with-health-care-for-a-rapidly-aging-population/</link>
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		<title>MLI Paper &#8211; Solutions for an aging population: Avoiding the $67 billion deficit in Canada’s future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MEDIA RELEASE February 7, 2012, Ottawa, ON &#8211; Canada will soon face the full burden of an aging society. The greying and eventual retirement of the baby boomers will cause national income growth and tax revenues to slow and public programs such as health care and income support for seniors to become more costly. In [...]


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		<link>http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/mli-paper-solutions-for-an-aging-population-avoiding-the-67-billion-deficit-in-canada%e2%80%99s-future/</link>
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