• Media
  • Sign-Up
  • Support Us

Canada's leading public policy think tank

  • Home
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Who Makes MLI Work
    • Tenth Anniversary
    • Jobs
  • Experts
  • Issues
    • Foreign Affairs
    • Indigenous Affairs
    • Canada's Political Tradition
    • Health Care
    • Social licence
    • Social issues
    • Agriculture and Agri-Food
    • National Security
    • Economic policy
    • National Defence
    • Energy
    • Justice
  • Projects
    • COVID and After: A Mandate for Recovery
    • COVID Misery Index
      • Beyond Lockdown: Canadians can have both health and prosperity
    • Provincial COVID Misery Index
    • Centre for Advancing Canada’s Interests Abroad
      • Dragon at the Door
      • The Eavesdropping Dragon: Huawei
    • An Intellectual Property Strategy for Canada
    • Speak for Ourselves
    • Canada and the Indo-Pacific Initiative
    • DisInfoWatch.org
    • The Transatlantic Program
    • Indigenous Prosperity at a Crossroads
      • Aboriginal Canada and Natural Resources
    • Past Projects
      • Justice Report Card
      • Munk Senior Fellows
      • A Mandate for Canada
      • Confederation Series
      • Fiscal Reform: Lessons from the Anglosphere
      • The Canadian Century project
      • Fixing Canadian health care
      • Internal trade
      • From a mandate for change
      • Size of government in Canada
  • Libraries
    • Inside Policy Magazine
      • Inside Policy Back Issues
      • Inside Policy Blog
    • Papers
    • Columns
    • Books
    • Commentary
    • Straight Talk
    • Video
    • Multimedia
    • Pod Bless Canada
    • Leading Economic Indicator
    • Labour Market Report
    • MLI in the Media
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
      • MLI Dinners
      • Great Canadian Debates
  • News

Latest News

view all

Ep. 72 – Understanding Vaccine Passports with Aaron Wudrick, Dr. Martha Fulford, and Dr. Shawn Whatley

Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Pod Bless Canada · Ep. 72 – Understanding Vaccine Passports with Aaron Wudrick, Dr Martha Fulford, and Dr Shawn Whatley The...

The Chinese dragon circles Afghanistan, as Beijing looks to impose a new world order: Shuvaloy Majumdar in the National Post

American President Joe Biden contends his decision to recklessly concede Afghanistan to the Pakistan-backed Taliban is one of realism and geopolitics: dispense with...

Events

  •

    The quest to vaccinate the world: Considering the global impact of waiving patent rights for COVID vaccines

    September 16, 2021 at 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM ET
    Online Webinar

Featured

Provincial COVID Misery Index

MLI's Provincial COVID Misery Index compares how provinces have performed in terms of protecting human wellbeing during the pandemic.

COVID and After: Mandate for Recovery

This new series offers independent thinking for a new Parliament facing historic challenges.

 

COVID Misery Index

The MLI COVID Misery Index assesses the extent to which the virus itself and our responses to it have harmed human wellbeing.

Latest Tweets

Twitter
Charles Burton
Charles Burton
@cburton001

Daphne Bramham: Conservatives face ugly barrage over party's China policy vancouversun.com/opinion/colu…

reply retweet favorite
9:36 am · September 16, 2021
Twitter
Shuvaloy Majumdar
Shuvaloy Majumdar
@shuvmajumdar

It’s a tragedy, an unconscionable negligence, and a failure of leadership that Canada isn’t part of this. #cdnfp #cdnpoli twitter.com/tomtugendhat/s…

reply retweet favorite
7:42 am · September 16, 2021
Twitter
Shuvaloy Majumdar
Shuvaloy Majumdar
@shuvmajumdar

#SanctionPakistan twitter.com/bbcyaldahakim/…

reply retweet favorite
5:26 am · September 16, 2021
Twitter
Shuvaloy Majumdar
Shuvaloy Majumdar
@shuvmajumdar

The Five Eyes appear to be are missing a pair. twitter.com/nickschifrin/s…

reply retweet favorite
5:00 am · September 16, 2021
Twitter
Shuvaloy Majumdar
Shuvaloy Majumdar
@shuvmajumdar

“…there’s nothing quite so peculiar as the cordon sanitaire Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have been allowed to construct around any serious discussion of foreign policy.” Excellent read by @TerryGlavin, with comments by @kolga. @MLInstitute @DisinfoW #cdnfp #cdnpoli twitter.com/terryglavin/st…

reply retweet favorite
4:22 am · September 16, 2021

Famous words

Isolation [is] dangerous to our liberty and destructive to our progress. Our people are industrious – our resources abundant – but union is necessary to our success.

— Peter Mitchell

Columns/Opeds

view all

The Chinese dragon circles Afghanistan, as Beijing looks to impose a new world order: Shuvaloy Majumdar in the National Post

American President Joe Biden contends his decision to recklessly concede Afghanistan to the Pakistan-backed Taliban is one of realism and geopolitics: dispense with...

Saskatchewan model shows private clinics have a role to play in public health care: Janice MacKinnon in the National Post

Private clinics can provide quality services at a lower cost than comparable hospital-delivered services, writes Janice MacKinnon in the National Post. Below is...

Poor policy is what's causing slower economic growth: Philip Cross in the Financial Post

When the main problem is that governments have adopted environmental and redistributive policies that hamper economic growth, Canadians should not accept the inevitability...

Trudeau, Canada, fail to understand depth of First Nations fresh water problems: Melissa Mbarki in the Toronto Star

For decades, Ottawa has oversimplified Indigenous issues, often reducing complex infrastructure, political and legal issues to simple statements, writes Melissa Mbarki in the...

Multimedia

view all

Ep. 72 – Understanding Vaccine Passports with Aaron Wudrick, Dr. Martha Fulford, and Dr. Shawn Whatley

Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Pod Bless Canada · Ep. 72 – Understanding Vaccine Passports with Aaron Wudrick, Dr Martha Fulford, and Dr Shawn Whatley The...

Canadians on Flights Out of Kabul: Christian Leuprecht on CTV News

 MLI Senior Fellow Christian Leuprecht joined CTV News to discuss the first large-scale evacuation of foreigners since US forces fully withdrew from...

1,000 Days in Detainment for Spavor & Kovrig: Charles Burton on CTV News

 MLI Senior Fellow Charles Burton joined CTV News to discuss Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor reaching 1,000 days of arbitrary detention as...

Releases

view all

Remember that energy crises are bad things: New MLI Commentary

OTTAWA, ON (September 14, 2021): As electricity prices soar to record or near record highs across much of Europe due to an energy crunch,...

How Pakistan enables the Taliban and what Ottawa should do about it: New MLI Commentary

OTTAWA, ON (September 9, 2021): Following the departure of American troops, Afghanistan rapidly fell to the Taliban and virtually overnight, the hard-won gains...

Solidarity in the face of transatlantic security challenges: New MLI Policy Brief

OTTAWA, ON (August 31, 2021): Adversaries of the West, particularly Russia and increasingly China, are posing new threats and complex challenges to European and...

Afghanistan is not dead, it's wounded: Acting Afghan President Saleh addresses Canadians in MLI exclusive

OTTAWA, ON (August 27, 2021): From the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan, Amrullah Saleh, the former First Vice President and now acting President of the...

Contact Us

Macdonald-Laurier Institute

323 Chapel Street, Suite #300
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 7Z2 Canada

Tel: 613.482.8327
Email: info@macdonaldlaurier.ca

MLI directory

Inside Policy Magazine

  • Current Issue
  • Back Issues
  • Advertising
  • Inside Policy Blog

eNewsletter Signup

Support Us

Support the Macdonald-Laurier Institute to help ensure that Canada is one of the best governed countries in the world. Click below to learn more or become a sponsor.

Support Us

© 2021 Macdonald-Laurier Institute. All Rights reserved. Privacy Policy

Website by Pondstone Communications

X

Sign-up to have the latest Canadian thought leadership delivered straight to your inbox.