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Tag Archives: Brett Byers

Treatment of the Two Michaels reveals Canada’s lack of leverage in Beijing: Brett Byers and Charles Burton for Global News

Canada’s naïveté toward China has left us impotent and rudderless in the face of Beijing’s aggression. What is desperately needed is for Ottawa...

 

March 19, 2021 at 4:11 pm read more

Ep. 58 - Canada and the Indo-Pacific with Jonathan Berkshire Miller and Brett Byers

Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Pod Bless Canada · Ep. 58 - Canada and the Indo-Pacific with Jonathan Berkshire Miller and Brett Byers In an effort...

 

January 29, 2021 at 8:07 pm read more

If Australia can shun China, Canada should, too: Brett Byers and Shuvaloy Majumdar in iPolitics

2020 marks a decisive end to an unmitigated fantasy of China as an economic partner. Canada could occupy a strategically advantageous position, but...

 

December 20, 2020 at 2:43 am read more

Holding China to Account for the COVID-19 Coverup: Charles Burton and Brett Byers for Inside Policy

There are plenty of actions that Canada should be taking immediately, in coordination with our allies and partners, in direct response to China’s...

 

May 26, 2020 at 4:16 pm read more

A better innovation policy: Protect ideas, don’t subsidize businesses: Richard Owens and Brett Byers in the Financial Post

Current innovation policies are a mess of disparate and expensive programs that dole out vast amounts of money wastefully and inefficiently, write Richard Owens...

 

March 2, 2020 at 8:21 pm read more

Ep. 43 – Putting the Rail Blockades and Teck Frontier in Context with Ken Coates and Brett Byers

In the latest episode of Pod Bless Canada, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Ken Coates comments on the ongoing protests and rail disruptions caused...

 

February 28, 2020 at 9:23 pm read more

Ep. 42 – What the Taiwanese Election and Coronavirus mean for China with Charles Burton and Brett Byers

In the latest episode of Pod Bless Canada, MLI Senior Fellow Charles Burton discusses the recent Taiwanese national elections, and what these important...

 

February 17, 2020 at 4:59 pm read more

In Defence of Democracy - Why Canada should look to Taiwan: Brett Byers and Brandon Purcell in the Toronto Sun

What Taiwan’s actions can and should provide are a set of reference points for policy-makers as they consider future efforts to protect our...

 

January 10, 2020 at 9:06 pm read more

Ep. 40 - Why MLI Chose Xi Jinping as Policy-Maker of the Year with Charles Burton and Brett Byers

Every year, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute names the person or institution that has had the greatest impact—for good or ill— on Canadian public policy...

 

December 31, 2019 at 8:06 pm read more

Candidate nominations in Canada are a mess - let's fix that: Kaveh Shahrooz and Brett Byers in the Toronto Sun

Nomination races are poorly designed and incentivize bad behaviour. The consequence is a process at odds with Canadian values and open to manipulation...

 

December 4, 2019 at 2:42 pm read more
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    OTTAWA, ON (April 15, 2021): The world is waking up to the nature of a crony capitalist enterprise operating as a government in...

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    It is clear that Canada must develop more courage and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with other liberal democracies to confront Beijing’s aggression. Canada needs more...

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