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“This may come as a surprise to many younger Canadians, and especially to recent law school graduates, but Canadians had rights and freedoms before 1982 and that year’s arrival of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” writes MLI contributor James Allan.
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“One can only hope that the nation’s newsrooms have reflected upon how they managed fear of COVID and the Freedom Convoy and whether it contributed to an astonishing and unjustified suppression of human rights,” writes Senior Fellow @Pagmenzies.
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“Any Canada-China trade talk must pass a simple Canadian test: Does it strengthen our access to the U.S. market and our resilience at home, or does it create a new veto point in Beijing and a new suspicion in Washington?,” writes MLI Senior Fellow and China Project Lead
“The question is no longer whether this is happening. The question is whether Canada is prepared to respond with the seriousness that the evidence demands.”—Christopher Coates
MLI’s Director of Foreign Policy, National Defence, and National Security, Christopher Coates, speaks
“Since the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in R. v. Jordan [Jordan], roughly 10,000 cases each year have been stayed because they took too long to reach completion (Ebner 2025),” writes Dylan R. Clarke.
“When justice is delayed, we deny the constitutional rights of the accused,
This week on @ambitionandgrit, @karenrestoule speaks with Geoffrey S. Moyse and @WarrenMirko on land claims, unceded territory, and transparency.
