The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new paper by former Conservative immigration minister and ambassador to Afghanistan Chris Alexander on Ending Pakistan’s Proxy Way in Afghanistan, in which he reveals the integral role of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence as the principal and underlying cause of persistent war against Afghans and those who seek to help them. This paper also represents the launch … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute welcomes Patrice Dutil as its newest senior fellow, covering issues including Canadian history, political tradition, and public administration. The full release is available online. Call 613-482-8327 x 105.
In a virtual bilateral meeting on Feb. 22, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed upcoming priorities for the two countries, though notably absent from the agenda was the U.S. administration’s new Buy American policy. In a new MLI commentary, “Government procurement and Biden’s Buy American policies: A way forward,” author Lawrence … Read more
In a new commentary titled Rethinking foreign policy: An emerging consensus for Canada, MLI Senior Fellow Balkan Devlen examines how Canadians view the importance of democratic allies, international institutions, defence spending, and the government’s stated foreign policy goals. This commentary is the third and final installment in a collection analysing polling data on Canadians’ views … Read more
Last December, the federal government released a proposed draft of the Clean Fuel Regulation. However, with a federal carbon tax regime already in place and set to increase to $170 per tonne by 2030, this raises the critical question: is the CFR actually needed at all? In MLI’s latest publication titled The Clean Fuel Standard: … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new commentary, COVID-19: Masking a Failed System, in which author Shawn Whatley finds medicare was already beleaguered with problems like overcrowding, hallway medicine, shortages in long-term care, long wait times, technology shortages, and spiralling costs. “Canada spent $264 billion on healthcare in 2019 with 26 percent of it going to hospitals ($70.2 billion). Given that … Read more
In a new joint publication between MLI and the Canadian Coalition Against Terror, Fighting back against global hostage-taking: A proposed new Act to hold state and terrorist actors to account, MLI senior fellow Sarah Teich proposes legislation to counter the challenges of hostage-taking and hostage diplomacy from state and non-state actors. “This persistence of hostage-taking and … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new report titled The Ties that Bind: Forging a Closer Transatlantic Bond Between Canada and Europe in a Troubled World. Authors Alexander Lanoszka and Philipp Dienstbier, distinguished experts from Canada and Europe, call for closer cooperation between Canada and Europe and offer insight on what a more prominent Canadian role in the transatlantic relationship would … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute published a new commentary, “Rethinking lockdowns: The risks and trade-offs of public health measures to prevent COVID-19 infections,” in which Dr. Ari Joffe, a pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases specialist, examines both the efficacy and cost of lockdown measures employed in Canada and globally in early 2020. He finds that the cost of lockdown measures widely … Read more
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s latest labour market report, COVID-19’s economic fallout: Addressing poorly targeted income support and the mythical ‘she-cession’, reveals that over the second quarter of 2020, household disposable income in Canada rose “the most of any major nation, as government transfers more than replaced the loss of earned income during the lockdown and most of this … Read more
