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...
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....
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vancouver Sun cites MLI’s social licence commentaries in column
The Vancouver Sun’s Don Cayo relied on the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s research on social licence for a recent column. Cayo, in raising questions about...
MLI Commentaries by Newman and Crowley: Exploiting social licence undermines democracy
Authors Dwight Newman and Brian Lee Crowley, in separate commentaries, trace the rise of the term social licence and argue that protesters are...
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