Monthly Archives: May 2012

MLI Paper – Canada is ideal partner for developing countries seeking institutions that promote progress and growth: leading experts

 Ottawa, Ontario – Canada has a unique opportunity to assert itself as a world leader in helping developing countries by supporting Honduras in its effort to create a new city with an innovative governance model, two prominent thinkers argue in a paper released last month by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI). In fact, according to world-renowned…

The Most Dangerous Man In The World

Editors Note: This is a speech I first gave to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 1996, just four years after the UN’s Earth Summit in Rio. At the time I gave this address there were strong indications that Maurice Strong could be chosen as the next UN Secretary General. It didn’t happen, but…

The folly of E15 anti-hydrocarbon policies

EPA’s E-15 ethanol plan is bad for our pocketbooks, environment and energy policy By Paul Driessen The Obama Administration’s antihydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists. The latest chapter in the sorry ethanol…