Canada’s Political Tradition
- New MLI Paper: Canada’s Constitution Guarantees Free Trade within Canada says noted legal expert June 15, 2011
The Canadian Wheat Board, agricultural marketing boards and provincial liquor monopolies may be open to legal challenge June 15, 2011, Ottawa, ON – In the latest paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, senior commercial litigator and energy la...
- MLI's Brian Crowley discusses senate reform in the Ottawa Citizen June 6, 2011
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 rare misplay by Quebec May 21, 2011
May 20, 2011 - In his regular column for The Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley discusses the history of Quebec's voting strategy in order to comment on how Quebec's recent election outcome has "weakened rather than strengthen...
- “Conservatives Made Canada.” Really? April 14, 2011
By Janet Ajzenstat “Conservatives made this country.” So said Mr. Harper said in a campaign speech recently. And yes, that’s the way the story’s often told: John A. Macdonald, our first prime minister was a Conservative. Canada was Tory blue...
- William Watson: The election debate we’d like to see April 8, 2011
In his article in the Financial Post of April 6, 2011, Watson discusses the manner in which the news media is reporting on the upcoming federal election.
- John Pepall’s Opposition to Institutional Reform March 17, 2011
By Janet Ajzenstat John Robson of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute is praising John Pepall’s Against Refom, recently published by the University of Toronto Centre for Public Management. The argument in brief: “The Canadian political system, wi...
- Against entrenching property right March 1, 2011
By Janet Ajzenstat “Protection of property is a basic right.” So says the editorial in the National Post (Friday, February 25, 2011). So says John Locke in the Second Treatise of Government. And so say I. But should we entrench the protect...
- Constitutional reform: Let's not go there February 28, 2011
By Janet Ajzenstat In the National Post (January 21, 2011), Michael Bliss and John Fraser argued that it is time to cast off Canada’s connection with the British monarchy. John Von Heyking wrote in reply: “Removing the monarchy would involve ...
