Canada should eliminate barriers to market entry if it wants to foster the innovation needed to improve productivity, according to a Macdonald-Laurier Institute study. Professor Steven Globerman said that, at a minimum, an effective national innovation policy should explicitly acknowledge the ways in which government policies affect competitive conditions in domestic markets, even when the … Read more
A new book published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute titled: Northern Light: Lessons for America from Canada's Fiscal Fix it said Canadians and their governments wrote the book on how to tame deficits in the mid-1990s – and American politicians should look north in their 2012 election for guidance as they struggle for public support to … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced that one of Canada's best known media commentators and economists, Linda Nazareth, is joining the institute as a senior fellow for Economics and Population Change. Managing director Brian Lee Crowley said Nazareth is a well-recognised media figure who has mastered the art of applying extensive economics background to illuminating the issues of … Read more
Managing director of the Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Brian Lee Crowley has co-authored Northern Light—Lessons for America from Canada’s fiscal fix, spotlighting Canada’s muscular budget reforms of the 1990s, and suggesting American politicians look north in their struggle for public support to balance Washington’s budget. More information is available online. Call 613-482-8327 x 100.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute released its Newsletter Vol. III, No. 4. The edition covers pieces entitled, What US and Asian manufacturing tell us about Canadian manufacturing and the dollar; Canada Health Act: Reform to preserve; Defending the indefensible: Canada's stubbornness on supply management jeopardizes jobs and growth, among others. More information is available online. Call 613-482-8327.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced the appointment of Philip Cross, who recently stepped down as the chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada, as the new research and editorial co-ordinator. Cross will assume his new role as of July 16, 2012. The full release is available online. Call 613-482-8327 x 105.
According to a new report released by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute the reasons for the ups and downs in the fortunes of Canada's manufacturing sector are much more complicated than proponents of the Dutch Disease argument. Brian Lee Crowley, managing director, and Jason Clemens, research director for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, point out in, "Inconvenient Truths: What … Read more
According to a new report entitled, "Milking the System: How Agricultural Supply Management Impedes Trade Opportunities and Egregiously Transfers Income,"published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, low-income Canadians and those looking for jobs are only two of the important groups of Canadians harmed by agricultural supply management (SM). While a small number of relatively well-off farmers may … Read more
Canada's provinces could experiment with better ways to finance and deliver universal health care if the federal government removed shackles in the Canada Health Act that create a barrier to such reform. In a Macdonald-Laurier Institute paper entitled, "First, Do No Harm: How the Canada Health Act Obstructs Reform and Innovation", authors Jason Clemens and Nadeem … Read more
In a period of runaway monetary stimulus by the industrialized world, two distinguished economists write about the invaluable contributions of Milton Friedman – lessons that are once again worth revisiting. At the advent of Friedman's 100th birthday, two essays on Friedman's theories around monetary policy have been published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. They are written … Read more
