The federal government announced it is blocking the Chinese state-owned enterprise CCCI’s takeover bid of Aecon Group on national security grounds. “The decision taken by the Canadian government to kill the Aecon takeover is laudable,” said Shuvaloy Majumdar, Munk senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. “The rule of law is a cornerstone for economic prosperity at home and … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new study, “Catching the Next Wave: How BC First Nations Can Benefit from Another LNG Boom,” which found that if the liquefied natural gas economy improves, First Nations will have a chance to carve out a sizeable and profitable place in the industry. “Experience across Canada has shown that Aboriginal people can benefit … Read more
In response to the announced from Kinder Morgan regarding the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, Macdonald-Laurier Institute Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley stated “This is a moment of great peril for the Canadian experiment as a successful democratic federation under the rule of law. Nothing less is at risk than the ability of the federal government to exercise its … Read more
The case for the free enterprise system is being lost in the national conversation. And those who believe in the economic and social benefits of entrepreneurship, markets, and profits are partly to blame. That is the conclusion of Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer’s latest MLI commentary, titled Rediscovering the Case for Enterprise. Speer’s paper points to … Read more
Canada’s criminal justice system is facing a litany of serious challenges including significant under-reporting of crime by victims, delays and inefficiencies, rising costs, and considerable over-representation of Indigenous people in prison, MLI Munk Senior Fellow and law professor at the UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law Benjamin Perrin said. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has released … Read more
A new study, Bringing Canadian Security Into Focus: How to Clarify the Roles of Newly Created Accountability Bodies, provides recommendations for the federal government on the best way to improve accountability for its newly created National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, and National Security and Intelligence Review Agency. “It is crucial for these two bodies to coordinate with each other. … Read more
The Macdonald Laurier Institute and the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, India, are joining forces from their national capitals to establish the ‘Canada-India Initiative,’ ORF VP Samir Saran and MLI Munk Senior Fellow Shuvaloy Majumdar. This collaboration was part of the joint initiatives and agreements announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) and Prime Minister Narenda Modi. “This capital-to-capital … Read more
A new study published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute shows a little discussed federal government plan to reduce prices for new drugs must be re-examined to consider the impact on public access to medication and one of Canada’s largest innovative industries. In “The Unkindest Cut,” authors Wayne Critchley and Richard C. Owens found that adopting the proposed price controls to the … Read more
Canada’s much-celebrated health-care system is failing up to live up to the lofty principles of universality for which it aspires, a new paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute finds. Authors Sean Speer and Ian Lee chart a path for a more equitable and sustainable health care system that asks high-income Canadians to pay a bit for their health … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute launched the Munk Senior Fellows program. The program, made possible by a grant from Peter Munk and the Aurea Foundation, will allow MLI to expand its thought leadership program. This grant is just the latest contribution Peter Munk, a globally renowned business leader, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and his wife Melanie Munk have made to public … Read more
