Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Following his keynote address, Deputy minister Rob Stewart sits with @CopelanPeter for a Q&A session to discuss Canada's efforts to combat financial crime and the current challenges it faces-

“What is the firewall you have put between your newsroom and your funding? We know what the CBC’s is because they’ve had it for years. But what’s CTV? What’s Rogers going to be? What’s TVA is going to be? What does the Globe and Mail do? We don't know any of this, and this is a sort of transparency we would demand from any other industry that was being subsidized by the government.” says MLI Senior Fellow Peter Menzies (@Pagmenzies) on @CANADALAND regarding the Budget 2026 media subsidies announcements. Full episode here⬇️ canadaland.com/podcast/1468-…

“And you don't have to replace the Chinese from the entire market. You just have to reduce their market power,” says Heather Exner-Pirot (@ExnerPirot), MLI’s Director of the Natural Resources, Energy, and Environment on CPAC at the Australia-Canada Economic Leadership Forum.

“If the government’s goal is to ensure Canadians have access to information they can trust and use to organize their lives, it would be well advised to think again and heed Gingras’s advice: develop policies focused on promoting a prosperous and innovative future instead of preserving an unsustainable past,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Peter Menzies (@Pagmenzies) in @natnewswatch. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/budget-2…

“[MAiD practitioners] would be guessing that someone looks like they’re intolerably suffering, that they would never get better. But actually, that person would have gotten better half the time.” – @rljcoelho MLI Senior Fellow Ramona Coelho discusses medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for mental illness on @CANADALAND. Listen to the full episode here⬇️ canadaland.com/podcast/1466-…

“The United States will do everything to make life as difficult as possible [for Iran], and we know that there are ongoing negotiations being facilitated by Qatar. So this is also a negotiation ploy to signal to the Iranian regime that the United States continues to be very serious about containing Iran and that it's in the Iranian regime's interest to negotiate, and negotiate in better faith than it has if it wants to survive and sustain itself.” MLI Senior Fellow Christian Leuprecht joins @CTVNews to discuss the U.S. launch of a task force aimed at blocking Iran’s arms flow and the broader strategy behind the move.

“Whether governed under the Indian Act, modern treaty, or self-government agreement, First Nations governments should be taking advantage of this generational moment and seeking out every economic opportunity possible to revitalize their local economies. It’s time that we move ourselves from a handout to a handshake, in business and in governance,” writes Karen Restoule (@karenrestoule), director of indigenous affairs at MLI in @TheHubCanada. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/carney-c…

"@Josephbvarner, a sr. fellow with @MLInstitute... told the Sun that DND was given orders to cut an additional 10% from this year’s operations & maintenance budget... 'There must be some directive... My understanding is it was issued by PMO.'” torontosun.com/news/national…

“The post–White Paper vision of Indigenous rights has always had this unresolved tension at its core. Are we eliminating discrimination, or building separate forms of citizenship? Some people are fine with separate status. They tend to be idealistic progressives who gain a kind of cultural status from their own self-sacrifice, virtue signalling what good people they are. That this makes for a lasting, peaceable country is far more doubtful,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Christopher Dummitt in the National Post (@nationalpost). Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/wab-kine…

Canada’s border security debate tends to focus on what crosses the border: drugs, firearms, illicit goods, and people. But that’s only part of the picture. Criminal networks often operate across multiple jurisdictions, sometimes in ways that serve or intersect with the interests of hostile foreign states. The threats they pose go well beyond illicit smuggling. In “Beyond the border: Disrupting criminal networks,” Laura Dawson (@DawsonCanada), executive director of the Future Borders Coalition, explains why Canada must move beyond traditional border enforcement and work to identify and dismantle the criminal networks behind illicit border activities. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/beyond-t…

“We won’t be masters of our destiny if we let spending run rampant, interest rates rise and public debt charges overwhelm our budgets. Because the world really is as volatile today as the finance minister says, the budget should have been much more careful about public indebtedness,” writes MLI Distinguished Fellow Jack Mintz (@jackmintz). Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/budget-2…

“I’m going to make the case that to defeat the lies about Israel and the Jews, our commitment to the truth, to the whole truth and nothing but the truth must be total,” says Brian Lee Crowley (@brianleecrowley), Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Brian was presented with the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation’s Advocate Award of Excellence on October 27, 2026. Watch full speech here⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=e4lIL_ds…

“Peter Copeland, deputy director of domestic policy at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says these business announcements ‘go in the right direction’ for increasing productivity and competitiveness of Canadian businesses. But in other ways, the budget ‘does not meet the moment,’ Copeland said. ‘We’re not dealing with deficit levels at all.’” — @CopelanPeter's comments on the 2026 federal budget in @CDNAffairs. canadianaffairs.news/2026/11…