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New Federal Regulations to Reduce Drug Prices Will Only Hinder Innovation: New MLI Paper by Nigel Rawson and John Adams
OTTAWA, ON (June 3, 2021): The COVID-19 pandemic has unmasked a dangerous lack of investment in pharmaceutical and vaccine research, development, and...
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Natural Resource Sector Crucial for Indigenous Economic Self-Determination: MLI Paper by Heather Exner-Pirot
OTTAWA, ON (May 26, 2021): Indigenous self-determination has been clearly articulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of...
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Atlantic Canada suffered the least in pandemic, larger provinces’ lockdowns more onerous, less effective and more costly: MLI’s new Provincial COVID Misery Index
OTTAWA, ON (May 25, 2021): What can we learn from Canadian provinces’ different COVID experiences? Compared to the Atlantic provinces,...
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Removing intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines will do more harm than good, says international coalition
OTTAWA, ON (May 24, 2021): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute joins an international coalition of 27 think tanks to call on governments...
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Canada should remain in the arms business, but tighten the rules: New MLI Commentary
OTTAWA, ON (May 14, 2021): Recent calls to limit Canada’s defence exports ignore important realities, including the major contribution our...
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Protecting Innocents in Combat: New proposed legislation to deter the use of human shields
OTTAWA, ON (May 13, 2021): Even as Hamas launches attacks at civilian targets, the Iran-backed terror organization hides its assets...
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MLI Congratulates President Tsai Ing-wen and the Halifax International Security Forum
OTTAWA, ON (May 4, 2021): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute extends its congratulations to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen for being awarded the...
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Why the oil sands aren’t going anywhere and how investment and production benefit Canada
OTTAWA, ON (April 29, 2021): While blue-collar work is being devastated in much of the rest of the Western world,...
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Too many Canadians are dying; policymakers know too little and rely too much on crude lockdowns: MLI COVID Misery Index Update
OTTAWA, ON (April 21, 2021): Deaths from all causes remain the biggest area of concern for Canada, COVID variants are...
Read moreDetailsMLI experts available to comment on federal budget
OTTAWA, ON (April 19, 2021): With the federal government poised to unveil its first budget in over two years, Canadians...
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How Canada and its Allies Can Partner on an Indo-Pacific Strategy: New MLI Commentary
OTTAWA, ON (April 16, 2021): Infrastructure development is sorely needed in the Indo-Pacific region to sustain growth among large and...
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A Way Forward, Part II: Defending human rights in China
OTTAWA, ON (April 15, 2021): The world is waking up to the nature of a crony capitalist enterprise operating as...
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