Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) told an Ottawa press conference that Canadians had a relatively good ride during the pandemic. Unfortunately, those casual references to broad impact categories don’t reflect the hard truths compiled by MLI’s COVID Misery Index. When it comes to Disease Misery, Canada did perform better than countries like the United States, … Read more
In a new commentary, Breaking the silence: Female athletes speak about safe and fair sport in Canada, former high-performance athlete Linda Blade looks at a government-commissioned report that provides an in-depth study of the attitudes of 25 current or former elite female athletes who speak about how this policy change affects them and their colleagues. Blade makes three … Read more
In a new MLI paper, From shield to sword: The evolution of Indigenous economic rights in Canada, senior fellow Heather Exner-Pirot and Martin Ignasiak shed light on the evolution of Indigenous economic rights in Canada and the impact on resource development in the country. “Indigenous support for a project, based on the economic benefits and advancement the project provides, … Read more
New polling conducted on behalf of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute reveals significant findings regarding Canadians’ views on gender identity and prisons. By a wide margin, four times as many Canadians believe it is important to continue maintaining single-sex housing of prisoners in Canada’s prisons, segregating male-bodied inmates from female inmates, with only one-in-five Canadians deeming the … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new paper, Alberta 2023 and beyond: Fiscal policy, health care and federal-provincial relations, in which authors Janice MacKinnon and Jack Mintz examine the state of Alberta in 2023 and provide several policy recommendations for the forthcoming and future Alberta budgets. The full report is available online.
In a major policy turn, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) has embraced warnings from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about the risk of Chinese Communist Party influence in our politics. According to Trudeau, “we’re seeing that countries, state actors from around the world, whether it’s China or others, are continuing to play aggressive games with our institutions, with our democracies.” Managing … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institue published a new paper, Give us good measure: Assessing the value of federal funding for First Nations government, in which authors Ken Coates and Gregory Finnegan examine the finances of a sample of 12 First Nations from across Canada, using them to describe the inequality in First Nation government financing. “With few exceptions, these First Nations … Read more
A new paper by MLI senior fellow Scott Simon, titled Navigating Canada-Taiwan relations: Why Canada needs a renewed strategy to help safeguard peace in the Taiwan Strait, sets about answering how can Canada ensure that peace is maintained across the Taiwan Strait. Simon explores the diplomatic history of Canada-Taiwan relations both independently of and in tandem with … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new report, The viewpoint diversity crisis at Canadian universities: Political homogeneity, self-censorship, and threats to academic freedom, in which professors Christopher Dummitt and Zachary Patterson find that academic freedom and viewpoint diversity are under threat, and that existing protections at universities are insufficient in preventing the formation of a monoculture. The authors advocate … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute welcomed Karthik Nachiappan as its newest senior fellow, covering issues like climate change, cyber security, artificial intelligence, and technology in the Indo-Pacific. The full release is available online. Call 613-482-8327 x 111.
