Commenting on the #housing crisis to Stuart Benson, Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 says 'without more sticks to pair with the healthy dose of carrots on offer to spur housing construction.. it may not be enough to overcome the perverse incentives already blocking development.'
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The federal govt has finally identified the geopolitical threat to our #Arctic sovereignty & security.

For Rob Huebert, the questions remain: do we have the experience, the political will & time to fulfil any of the promises to truly make a difference?
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As #Canada inches closer to the next federal election, Ania Bessonov writes that Canada’s leaders must develop a foreign policy accounting for the durability of the Abraham Accords & the resulting possibility of a significantly altered Middle East:
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Sr. Fellow Stephen R Nagy warns that if great power politics continues to fracture multilateralism, 'we will not be able to solve the many challenges facing the #IndoPacific region or the globe at large.'
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'Our institutions of higher education are once again front & centre in the news as increasingly illiberal 'Freedom Palestine' protests roil campuses across North America.'
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From the 2019 files: On why Canada needs a registry of foreign agents macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/2019…

Mintz and Cross quantify the costs of red tape:
“The fiscal & regulatory costs rise from 29.1 to 30.2% if 1.58 years are added to the length of time of development, and to 34.7% if 8.67 years are added. The latter implies an ⬆️ in the effective fiscal & regulatory burden of 20%.”

In our latest paper, Canada’s resource sector: protecting the Golden Goose, Philip Cross & Dr. Jack Mintz look at the sizeable contribution of natural resources to #Canada ’s economy:
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'Companies that prioritize profits over human lives must be held accountable, not given a free pass on sanctions violations; they should be subjected to public scrutiny and our most severe condemnation.' - Marcus Kolga 🇺🇦 | Toronto Star
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Canada’s resource policy and regulations have put major projects and investments into 'a death spiral.’ Now we need good, common-sense policy. ow.ly/r8fW50Rra1K Heather Exner-Pirot of Macdonald-Laurier Institute #cdnpoli

Senior Fellow Peter Menzies joins David Leis of Frontier Centre to talk about the current state of #Canada & whether our country is in trouble:
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With news of Honda unveiling plans for an EV battery plant in Ontario, as part of a $15 billion project involving up to $5 billion in public funds, Macdonald-Laurier Institute's domestic policy director Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 joins True North's Andrew Lawton to discuss:
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'The current Chinese government... is a menace, a real danger to its own people, to its neighbours, and to the wider-world.'

The Tony Abbott makes an important distinction between the current Chinese gov't and the Chinese people.

For Richard Shimooka, NATO criticism alone is not what likely informed Canada's defence policy update:

'Extended discussion on the Arctic... as well as the immediate boost to North American Aerospace Defense Command modernization spending, suggests the US may be the primary audience..'
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According to Raheel Raza, the key to peace & security in the Middle East would be Saudi Arabia:

'Indeed, the Oct. 7 attack was seen widely as an attempt to prevent the Saudis from signing the accords,' writes Raza.
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'Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources & environment at Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, told CBC...

'If you’re exploring in the #Arctic & you need to get some more money to move to the next stage, they don’t have a lot of options...''
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‘Exner-Pirot said it's incumbent on the federal govt to make investment opportunities more enticing for investors closer to home. 
'Western countries need to provide not just sticks to keep people away from China, but carrots so projects can move forward.'
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'The federal budget compares a nurse earning $70k & paying tax at 29.7% with a $1-million investor paying 26.8% on capital gains,' notes Dr. Jack Mintz.

'This argument is shamefully misleading...'
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Writing in Toronto Star, Marcus Kolga 🇺🇦 warns that our sanctions on Russia must not be allowed to yield to corporate avarice:

'The battle for #Ukraine is... a test of the international community’s resolve in upholding global peace, justice & democratic values.'
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Canada’s major project investments are in a “death spiral” because of Bill C-69, says Heather Heather Exner-Pirot in this new commentary. Had proposed amendments been heeded in 2019, we might be looking at a much better situation today. macdonaldlaurier.ca/canadian-compe…