Event review: Hartt, Kheiriddin face off on whether the Senate should be abolished in the Great Canadian Debates
The Senate: An anachronistic body that shields itself at every turn from the will of the people, or an institution ...
Tag: Great Canadian Debates
Should the Senate be abolished? No: Stanley Hartt in the National Post on GCD #1
Canada’s Senate cannot be abolished, says Stanley Hartt in the National Post. Therefore, it must be saved. Hartt will argue ...
Should the Senate be abolished? Yes: Tasha Kheiriddin in the National Post on GCD #1
The time for tinkering with the Senate is past, writes Tasha Kheiriddin in the National Post. Canada’s upper chamber needs ...
First Great Canadian Debate of 2015-16: Should the Senate be abolished?
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s series returns on Nov. 19 with a look at the future of Canada’s Upper Chamber OTTAWA, November, ...
An impressive, impactful debut: William Watson on MLI’s fifth anniversary
McGill University economist William Watson has chimed in with words of praise for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s fifth anniversary celebrations. "At ...
Fifth anniversary: MLI has made an “immediate, positive impact” on public life, says Jack Granatstein
Canadian military historian Jack Granatstein is the latest influential Canadian to offer his congratulations to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute on hitting ...
Great Canadian Debates, Truth and Reconciliation profiled in Vol. VI, No. 7 of the MLI newsletter
Catch up on everything MLI with our latest newsletter. In Vol. VI, No. 7 of the newsletter we profile: A ...
Listen to GCD #3: Coyne, Pepall debate – is Canada’s democracy in crisis?
Missed the last Great Canadian Debate on our 2015 schedule? Now you can listen to two of Canada's leading thinkers ...
Event review: Coyne and Pepall debate whether Canada’s democracy is in crisis in the third Great Canadian Debate of 2015
First past the post. Powerless members of Parliament. The outsized power that party leaders exercise over our political process. These ...
Canada’s democracy is not in crisis: John Pepall on GCD #3 in the Post
Writing in the National Post, author John Pepall writes that those who constantly fret over the state of Canadian democracy ...
Canada’s democracy is in crisis: Andrew Coyne on GCD #3 in the Post
Writing in the National Post, columnist Andrew Coyne argues that Canadians have the form but not the substance of Parliamentary ...
Great Canadian Debates: Andrew Coyne and John Pepall debate whether Canada’s democracy is in crisis
Event hosted by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute takes place at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa on May 26 OTTAWA, May ...
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Time for an intervention – an urgent call to end “gender-affirming” treatments for children: J. Edward Les for Inside Policy
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The Governor General deserves better, but we deserve impartiality: Philippe Lagassé for Inside Policy
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Conservatives can reject destructive left-wing policies and still take climate change seriously: Brian Lee Crowley in the National Post
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Success assured? Appraising the Canadian-led Enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Latvia
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Widespread shortages, skyrocketing costs: the growing calamity that is government-controlled child care
