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Defending the indefensible:Canada’s stubborness on supply management jeopardizes jobs and trade growth

Macdonald-Laurier Institute Media Release OTTAWA, June 21, 2012 – Low-income Canadians and those looking for jobs are only two of the important groups of Canadians harmed by agricultural supply management (SM). While a small number of relatively well-off farmers may benefit from SM – which covers agricultural commodities like eggs, chicken, and dairy – it…

Resource development need not harm environment

Natural Resources minister makes the case for a balanced approach that protects the environment and fuels growth Macdonald-Laurier Institute Ottawa, Ontario – Canada can achieve a regulatory system for resource development that protects Canadians and the environment and at the same time supports Canada’s competitive advantage, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver argued recently in a…

Canada’s biggest cities hurt by ‘radical densification’

Macdonald-Laurier Institute OTTAWA, May 24, 2012 – Quality of life in Toronto and Canada’s other major cities has been seriously harmed by urban planners’ “radical densification” policies that use “malicious incentives” to force developers to build within restrictive urban boundaries, a leading urban policy authority argues in a Commentary released today. Radical densification policies that…

Celebrating the man who changed everyone’s life

Twenty years after his death, Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek’s ideas still reshaping the world Macdonald-Laurier Institute Anyone looking for evidence of Victor Hugo’s proposition that ideas are the most powerful force in the world need look no further than the impact of the ideas of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated economic and social…