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Social licence

New First Nations Governance Trends Complicate Resource Agreements: Joseph Quesnel for Inside Policy

As First Nations increasingly adopt custom governance structures outside the Indian Act, they will have to clarify who speaks for the community when...

 

January 11, 2019 at 10:47 pm read more

Ep. 19 - The Resource Economy and Indigenous Rights with Ken Coates and Dwight Newman

In this episode of Pod Bless Canada, Ken Coates is joined by MLI Senior Fellow Dwight Newman to discuss the current state of...

 

December 17, 2018 at 7:31 pm read more

Why Trudeau spent $4.5 billion to nationalize an oil pipeline: Crowley in the Washington Examiner

It appears the only way a major pipeline project in Canada can get built is if the federal government buys the project as it...

 

June 12, 2018 at 7:44 pm read more
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Paul Cassidy to discuss social licence at Halifax event

Macdonald-Laurier Institute author Paul Cassidy will discuss the nefarious offshoots of the social licence phenomenon at a talk in Halifax on March 30....

 

March 23, 2017 at 12:04 pm read more
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Ottawa needs to protect environmental assessment from the zealots’ smears: Brian Lee Crowley and Doug Black in Sun papers

The recent disruption of hearings into the Energy East pipeline in Montreal are an affront to the rule of law and the will of...

 

September 9, 2016 at 10:29 am read more

“Social Licence”: The Rule of Law Transgressed: Paul Cassidy, Monika Sawicka and Leah Whitworth in Inside Policy

While it has become popular with politicians, the concept of requiring 'social licence' for resource projects is entirely at odds with the rule...

 

August 31, 2016 at 10:33 am read more

Brian Lee Crowley takes the social licence radicals to task on CBC’s The 180

The concept of social licence for natural resource projects has legitimate and illegitimate forms. Brian Lee Crowley appeared on the CBC Radio One...

 

December 14, 2015 at 4:35 pm read more

Brian Lee Crowley brings straight talk on "social licence" to British Columbia

How do you get approval from local communities for natural resource development without subverting the rule of law? That was a question at...

 

November 2, 2015 at 11:18 am read more

Crowley speaks to CBC in Vancouver on social licence

Macdonald-Laurier Institute Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley spoke to the CBC in Vancouver this week in support of some talks on the issue...

 

January 15, 2015 at 11:14 am read more

Crowley to speak on social licence at UBC event

Macdonald-Laurier Institute Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley will be speaking at the University of British Columbia on Jan. 15 on the growing issue...

 

January 13, 2015 at 9:25 am read more
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  • Connecting After COVID: How Canada and its allies can partner on infrastructure and trade in the Indo-Pacific

    January 27, 2021 at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

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  • Local Reaction to an Inauguration like no other: Elliot Tepper on CTV News

    Elliot Tepper, Foreign Affairs, In the Media, Latest News, Multimedia, Recent News

     MLI research advisory board member Elliot Tepper joined CTV News to discuss the inauguration of Joe Biden. "I think it will be...

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  • Build health care back better: Philip Cross in the Financial Post

    Columns, COVID-19, Health, In the Media, Latest News, Philip Cross, Recent News

    Patient care and not phoney bureaucratic metrics or political grandstanding about equality has to be the focus for everyone, writes Philip Cross in...

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  • The Liberals went hostile against Big Pharma. Now we’re facing vaccine shortages: Tasha Kheiriddin in the National Post

    Columns, COVID-19, Health, In the Media, Latest News, Recent News

    Europeans will wait just one week for their Pfizer shipments to return to normal levels, while Canadians will wait for four weeks, writes...

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  • New legislative proposal to combat global hostage-taking

    Foreign Affairs, Justice, Justice - papers, Latest News, Papers, Press Releases, Recent News, Sarah Teich, Security and defence - papers

    OTTAWA, ON (January 21, 2021): Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have languished as hostages in China’s brutal prisons for over two years. And...

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  • The yellow badge of Canadian courage: William Watson in the Financial Post

    Columns, Foreign Affairs, In the Media, Latest News, Recent News

    For Canadian politicians no profiles in courage are involved in slamming the departing bully Trump. What’s in play instead are easy political points,...

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Local Reaction to an Inauguration like no other: Elliot Tepper on CTV News

 MLI research advisory board member Elliot Tepper joined CTV News to discuss the inauguration of Joe Biden. "I think it will be...

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