Welcome to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Welcome to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Canada’s only truly national public policy think tank based in Ottawa. MLI is rigorously independent and non-partisan, as symbolized by its name. Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier were two outstanding and long-serving former prime ministers who represent the best of Canada’s distinguished political tradition. A Tory and a Grit, an English-speaker and a French-speaker, each of them championed the values that led to the creation of Canada and its emergence as one of the world’s leading democracies and a place where people may live in peace and freedom under the rule of law.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy exists to renew the legacy of these two towering figures of our history, and the legacy of all those who had the courage and the wisdom to found Canada. We will do this by helping to make poor quality public policy in Ottawa unacceptable to Canadians and their political and opinion leaders by proposing thoughtful alternatives through non-partisan and independent research and commentary.
Here are some of the things you can look forward to from MLI in the coming months:
- March 11: MLI's Managing Director, Brian Lee Crowley, will be the keynote speaker at the Ottawa conference of the Institute for Marriage and the Family Canada Family Policy Conference.
- March 15: Release of Free to Learn: Giving Aboriginal Youth Control over Their Post-Secondary Education, by Calvin Helin and Dave Snow. Ottawa.
- March 15: Celebrate the launch of the new Institute at the Courtyard restaurant in Ottawa.
- March 18: MLI Fellow Jason Clemens will discuss The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America's Shadow at the University of Windsor.
- March 23: Launch of Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights. Book launch and signing with authors Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara, André Le Dressay and C.T. (Manny) Jules. Ottawa.
- March 24: MLI's Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley will be the wrap-up speaker at the Ottawa Economics Association's one-day conference on Canada's future economic challenges.
- May: Release of The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America's Shadow, by Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis.
- May 6: An Evening of insight, policy and economic trends with Brian Lee Crowley, Andrew Coyne and Chantal Hébert. Vancouver.
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