How to fund a health care system on life support
According to one of Canada’s foremost tax experts, Jack Mintz, the way Canada pays for medicare is unsustainable. Rather than continuing to ration...
Canada pays higher price than peers for modest pandemic success: MLI’s COVID Misery Index
Jumping from 9th to 6th place out of 15 countries, Canada weathered the initial stages of Omicron better than most due to high...
Ripping the band-aid off: Why Canadians resist health care reforms
As Canada grapples with an increasingly unsustainable health care system, Jeffrey Simpson examines how Canadians’ deep affection for the status quo poses barriers...
Canadians support a stronger, more principled foreign policy: MLI's Annual Foreign Policy and International Affairs Survey
MLI’s Annual Foreign Policy and International Affairs Survey reveals both opportunities and challenges for policy-makers who are tasked with securing Canada’s interests on...
Want to fix Canada’s crippled health system? We’ve had the plan for 20 years
With the pandemic exposing Canada’s underperforming, beleaguered health care system, a new MLI commentary by Janice MacKinnon looks back on recommendations from two...
How the First Nations canoe and Canada canoe can once again travel side by side: Straight Talk with Chief Cadmus Delorme
This publication is based on the transcript of a recent video interview between Chief Cadmus Delorme and Macdonald-Laurier Institute Distinguished Fellow Ken Coates....
Labour shortages, high wages for new hires cause headaches for employers: MLI Commentary by Philip Cross
OTTAWA, ON (December 23, 2021): Employers are feeling the pinch this year when it comes to finding qualified workers. While the labour market continues...
Quelle surprise! François Legault is Canada’s top policy maker: Inside Policy, December 2021
OTTAWA, ON (December 22, 2021): A Quebec Premier as the top federal policy maker? Believe it. While in past years the Macdonald-Laurier Institute...
Full Steam Ahead: Why Canada's shipbuilding program oughtn't to be abandoned or cut
A new paper by MLI Senior Fellow Richard Shimooka navigates the lessons, missteps, and outcomes of the Canadian Surface Combatant program, and finds...
Canadians will pay a heavy price as Ottawa cuts drug costs
A new MLI commentary warns that pending and aggressive drug price control efforts could lead to major unintended consequences in terms of access...