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Apr 03 2017
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What makes Canada great: My talk to MLI’s Canada 150 Dinner, 16th February 2017

By Brian Lee Crowley MLI

Forget diversity, multiculturalism or social programmes. Despite what you may have heard, these are not the things that make Canada great, however desirable they may be in their own right….

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Apr 03 2017
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To counter Russian disinformation, the West must rebuild its ability to mobilize ideas

By Brian Lee Crowley Ottawa Citizen/Postmedia

After the Cold War, the West dismantled much of its capacity to oppose Russian propaganda and disinformation. Now our own complacency and an emboldened Vladimir Putin is leaving us prey…

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Apr 03 2017
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Think what you like of Kevin O’Leary—He is right to call for the restoration of Ottawa’s economic power

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

Writing in my fortnightly Globe column I make the case that commentators can harrumph all they want at Kevin O’Leary’s plan to discipline the provinces for damaging Canada’s national economic…

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Apr 03 2017
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How globalisation bowled over the taxman

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

As I wrote in my Globe column for the ROB, carbon taxes are all the rage, but they are not going to be the tax reform that will bring national…

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Apr 03 2017
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Provincial liquor monopolies: you can run but you cannot hide

By Brian Lee Crowley MLI

Canada’s liquor control boards – the provincially run bodies that control the sale of alcohol to Canadians – have proven surprisingly adept at enduring through calls for lower prices and…

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Apr 03 2017
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The conflict between elites and ordinary people that brought us Trump and Brexit has Canada in its sights

By Brian Lee Crowley MLI

There is no wall protecting Canada from the populist tidal wave that washed Donald Trump to the presidency in the United States, as I argue in a new Macdonald-Laurier Institute…

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Apr 03 2017
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Innovation-obsessed Ottawa tackling a problem that doesn’t exist

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

In the lead-up to the federal budget, Ottawa was desperately signalling its commitment to fostering innovation in Canada. As the bard might have said, indeed did say, how weary, stale,…

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Apr 03 2017
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What explains labour’s falling share of income? Corporate concentration one answer

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

In my Globe column I argue that the share of national income going to workers is being squeezed in Canada and other G20 countries. An excessive concentration of market share…

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Apr 03 2017
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Think the conditions that led to Trump’s rise don’t exist here? Think again.

By Brian Lee Crowley Globe and Mail

In my Globe column I argue that typical Canadian smug moral superiority has no place in our assessment of Donald Trump and the political phenomenon he represents. Canada is not…

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Apr 03 2017
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Celebrating Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the founder of modern Canada, on his 175th birthday

By Brian Lee Crowley MLI

Last November 16th MLI issued my talk in celebration of the remarkable life and achievements of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the founder of modern Canada and one of my personal heroes….

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