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MLI Report: Benjamin Perrin makes the case for the Supreme Court as Policy-Maker of the Year
New study finds that the Supreme Court’s rulings over the past year will spark a lasting impact on public policy...
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Panel discussion in Toronto: Can Canada push out of its trade comfort zone?
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute and Dawson Strategic will convene a panel of experts in Toronto this Friday for a discussion on...
Read moreDetailsMLI Commentaries by Newman and Crowley: Exploiting social licence undermines democracy
Authors Dwight Newman and Brian Lee Crowley, in separate commentaries, trace the rise of the term social licence and argue...
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MLI welcomes Aboriginal law expert Dwight Newman as Senior Fellow
Dwight Newman has already published extensively with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute on the "duty to consult" with Aboriginal peoples, Tsilhqot’in Supreme Court...
Read moreDetailsExperts to discuss links between contraband tobacco products and terror, crime
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is partnering with Dawson Strategic for an expert discussion on contraband tobacco featuring Dr. Christian Leuprecht. OTTAWA,...
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New Inside Policy: Special issue on knocking down internal trade barriers
Latest edition of the magazine of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute examines how to rid Canada of the internal trade barriers that...
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MLI Commentary: Competing regional interests and lack of national vision have undermined interprovincial free trade, says former AIT executive director Magnifico
The flawed 1994 Agreement on Internal Trade had promised to reduce, if not eliminate, barriers to trade between the provinces....
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MLI authors: Government move on credit cards won’t benefit consumers or small business
Agreement with banks and credit card companies to cut interchange fees for merchants won't have the desired result, say the...
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MLI report: Carbon tax win-win likely doomed to defeat
Economist Robert P. Murphy shows that the tax interaction effect and political realities would combine to defeat the widely promoted...
Read moreDetailsPanel discussion on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Can Canada push out of its trade comfort zone?
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is partnering with Dawson Strategic to host a panel discussion on Asian trade opportunities and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. OTTAWA,...
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MLI Commentary by Brian Lee Crowley: Reducing internal trade barriers up to Ottawa
Macdonald-Laurier Institute Managing Director calls for the creation of a charter of economic rights that would use the courts to...
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MLI Commentary by Benjamin Perrin: How Canada’s new prostitution law can survive a legal challenge
By targeting pimps and johns rather than prostitutes, Bill C-36 succeeds in improving on the safety concerns that led the...
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