Macdonald-Laurier Institute

“If we celebrate strong families and community responsibility, then people will rise to those expectations and exercise those norms and values,” says MLI Director of Indigenous Affairs Karen Restoule (@karenrestoule) on The Deb Hutton Show.

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“Canada’s challenge is therefore not only responding to individual attacks but preventing the creation of a wider environment of fear, insecurity, and declining public trust. The strategic effect of terrorism is achieved when society begins to believe that violence is

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“In terms of defence spending, Canada has been seen as a laggard. There’s questions about our 2% and how we’ve reached that threshold and whether we have reached that threshold, and this was a good announcement, I suspect for the prime minister to drop on his way to NATO to

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“Prosperous federations don’t thrive because every region receives exactly the same dollar amount back from the federal government. That’s a fool’s errand.

They thrive because all regions have a stake in each other’s success and share in their losses. While worthy of achievable

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“What I think this summit is very much about is showing genuine progress on those commitments that were made last year. Are we actually spending the money? And second, what are we getting for the money? Are there actual orders? Are there contacts? Do we have clear delivery

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“The Carney government, however, initially chose an ‘elbows up’ approach to dealing the Trump administration. In Canada, pandering to latent anti-Americanism often yields domestic electoral rewards – much like ‘elbows up’ hockey draws enthusiastic cheers from the crowd. But puck

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