From A Mandate For Change To A Plan To Govern

Getting it right on infrastructure spending: Commentary by Sean Speer and Brian Flemming

January 21, 2016

MLI commentary lays out a smarter and better infrastructure spending plan OTTAWA, Jan. 21, 2016 – Infusing an extra $60 ...

Nazareth in iPolitics: Weak temporary foreign worker program hurts the economy

MLI Senior Fellow Sean Speer available to comment on health ministers meeting

January 20, 2016

Speer available to comment ahead of this week's health ministers meeting on why more money is not the answer for ...

Sean Speer, US deficit, deficit reduction

How overblown are retirement crisis concerns? Just ask our Finance Minister: Sean Speer in the Globe

January 18, 2016

Concerns about a retirement crisis in Canada are overblown, writes MLI Senior Fellow Sean Speer in the Globe and Mail. ...

Boosting retirement savings requires Ottawa’s scalpel, not its sledgehammer, Speer tells BNN

January 14, 2016

Are there pockets of the Canadian population the federal government could be helping to boost their retirement savings? Absolutely. But that ...

Ottawa can help Canadians achieve a secure retirement without CPP expansion: MLI report by Philip Cross and Sean Speer

January 13, 2016

Concern over the state of Canadians’ retirement savings is overblown, authors find, and what issues there are require a ‘scalpel’, ...

Time for Ottawa to free up the provinces on health care reform: Crowley and Speer in Sun papers

December 18, 2015

More money has failed to cure Canada’s ailing health care system. The federal government needs to get out of the ...

Pushing the provinces towards health care reform: Commentary by Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer

December 16, 2015

Latest entry in “From A Mandate For Change To A Plan To Govern” shows how the federal can carve out ...

How to build a long-term refugee policy: Speer and Leuprecht in the Post

December 14, 2015

The newly-elected Liberals have their work cut out for them in bringing 25,000 refugees to Canada over the next few ...

MLI’s Speer and Leuprecht lay the groundwork for a sustainable Canadian refugee policy

December 9, 2015

Latest installment of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Mandate For Change series calls for a move beyond ad hoc promises to a ...

MLI’s “From A Mandate For Change To A Plan To Govern” series begins by examining Canada’s middle class

December 3, 2015

Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer launch the first in a series of papers aimed at helping the newly-elected government ...