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Public Policy

A new world order

MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley argues that Western nations are missing a major opportunity to help shape a more democratic and peaceful...

 

March 1, 2011 at 3:39 pm read more

The Redemptive Decade in context

Click here to see a really cool infographic that gives an overview of the last 50 years of fiscal policy in Canada, placing...

 

February 28, 2011 at 1:30 pm read more

Canadian Manufacturing: Clear the track and we can beat the world

February 07, 2011 – Ottawa The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released a Commentary, Manufacturing Competitiveness, by Martinrea International Chairman and Chairman of the...

 

February 7, 2011 at 9:58 am read more

MLI's Crowley on CPAC's Goldhawk Live

MLI Managing Director Brian Crowley was a guest on CPAC's Goldhawk Live this past Sunday. In the inaugural show of 2011 for Goldhawks...

 

January 11, 2011 at 4:10 pm read more

Subsidising Separatism

What a tangled web we weave when first we practise to…subsidise political parties (with apologies to Sir Walter Scott). A number of commentators...

 

January 10, 2011 at 11:27 am read more

PM Harper to focus on aboriginal education...like MLI

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute opened its doors on March 15, 2010. Our launch coincided with the release of our first policy publication, Free to...

 

December 17, 2010 at 12:17 pm read more

Federal government listening to MLI on pension reform

The federal government has been staking out some public policy ground this week. Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, told Canadians that expansion of the...

 

December 17, 2010 at 9:53 am read more

Lincoln Caylor appears before Justice and Human Rights Committee

MLI Board Member Lincoln Caylor was asked to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights on November...

 

November 30, 2010 at 4:12 pm read more

Mortgage Insurance in Canada: Make it more competitive

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) today released "Mortgage Insurance in Canada: Basically sound but room for improvement", a paper by University of Guelph Associate...

 

November 18, 2010 at 9:23 pm read more

MLI's Crowley on CBC discussing public debt

MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley appeared on CBC's Lang & O'Leary Exchange yesterday discussing public debt and unfunded public pension liabilities. While Canada is...

 

November 12, 2010 at 4:35 pm read more
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