China is rising, and doing so in a way that challenges many of the foundations of a rules-based international order. This should be exceptionally worrisome to Canada, a country that…
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IN an op-ed on 23 August 2017 in the Globe and Mail, at a time when the arrival of asylum seekers illegally entering Canada was just starting to stike the…
On 25 July 2017 I wrote an op-ed in the Financial Post arguing that the latest international health care rankings from the Commonwealth Fund put paid to any notion that…
MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley offers his view on the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Gerard Comeau.
“Perhaps most damning for a government that prides itself on evidence-based policy making, the government has silenced the 235 military personnel and civilian bureaucrats directly implicated in the fighter aircraft replacement program. They were forced to sign unprecedented lifetime gag orders—a curious thing if the government thought this considerable body of expertise would back the interim fighter decision.”
Ottawa’s plan to buy interim Super Hornets will cost more and fail to give the Canadian Forces the fighter it needs. That was the conclusion of a survey of defence…
As I argued in an op-ed for the Ottawa Citizen on 2 June 2017, the Ontario government wishes us to think that raising the minimum wage is a matter of…
At first blush you might think that the minimum wage and carbon taxes have nothing to do with one another. You’d be quite wrong however. That’s because the logic of…
In what turned out, alas, to be my last regular column for the Globe’s ROB, I point out that unemployment statistics hide more than they reveal. What tell us a…
Being landlocked is a bad place to be generally speaking on the international stage. Coastal states are guaranteed freedom of the seas, but landlocked states may not be able to…