The Macdonald-Laurier Institute said that it release its latest paper entitled "Free Trade within Canada: Say Goodbye to Gold Seal." The institute said that in the paper, senior commercial litigator and energy lawyer Ian Blue argues that a single wrong-headed legal decision from Canada's distant past has obscured and virtually destroyed the Canadian Constitution's strong … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced the appointment of Jason Clemens as its new Director of Research and Managing Editor. The Institute said Clemens will assume his new role on Aug. 1, 2011, upon returning to Canada from the United States where he has been living for the past three years. MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced that it released a commentary on "Carbon Policy: The Right – and Wrong – Ways to Use NAFTA." The institute said that in the commentary, Dr. Lewis Perelman responds to the carbon policy proposed by Jeffrey Scott and Meera Flicking of the Peterson Institute for International Economics from Washington. The full … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced the release of a commentary entitled Keeping Canada Strong and Free written by Brian Lee Crowley, MLI's Managing Director and MLI's Fellow and Senior Researcher Alex Wilner. The commentary looks at Canada's long term military ambitions and ways to equip the country's armed forces. The full release is available online. Call … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute said within a year the Province of Quebec will face a provincial election that, if the polls are to be believed, will return the Parti Quebecois to power, raising afresh the spectre of a referendum on Quebec independence. The institute release a report called Secession and the Virtues of Clarity written by … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced that its Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley has released new MLI commentary on the current high prices of gasoline. Crowley said that the current public ideology about natural resources being in short supply and being exhausted in the near future is mistaken. The full release is available online. Call 613-482-8327 ext … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced the release of its new report entitled Driving Continental Integration: Auto Manufacturing and the Future of North America. In the report the Institute said that there is a remarkable contradiction between the reality of the North American economy and North American governance, which is weak, fragmented and often uninformed. The Institute … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced that its first book The Canadian Century: Moving out of America's shadow has won the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for 2011. The award was bestowed upon the Institute by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. The full release is available online.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute issued the first in a series of papers on pharmaceutical policy called Pills, Patterns & Profits. The paper looks into how Canadians are affected by the quality, price and availability of therapeutic drugs and why it's important for policymakers to oversee these subjects. The full release is available online. Call 613-482-8327.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute announced that its first book, The Canadian Century: Moving out of America's Shadow, won the Sir Anthony Fisher International Memorial Award. Written by Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis, the book tells the story of the "Redemptive Decade" that began with the free trade agreement with the United States and … Read more
