Celebrate 150 years since Confederation with a look back at Canada's past.
The Confederation Project, which MLI launched earlier this month, aims to help Canadians gain a new understanding of their country's founding.
The series takes a unique look at how five of our first-generation political leaders - George Brown, George-Étienne Cartier, Alexander Galt, Thomas D'Arcy McGee and John A. Macdonald - envisioned what it meant to be Canadian.
It is the only extended examination of Canada's story primarily through the speeches of its founders.
The first paper in the series, on Brown, has already been released. It features a foreword by Preston Manning.
Sean Speer paper sorts the good from the bad on tax expenditures
How will the government decide which tax expenditures need to go as it prepares for Budget 2017?
Sean Speer is here to help!
In a new paper he prepares a checklist to help guide Ottawa on which tax expenditures need to be maintained, which need to be fixed and which need to be tossed.
Jack Granatstein (yay) and Noah Richler (nay) will hash out that question as part of another Great Canadian Debate, taking place March 28, 2017 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
A new report from a government advisory council urging Ottawa to raise the retirement age is pursuing a laudable goal of keeping older workers in the labour force, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross told BNN.
Yes, Canada does have a culture: Philip Carl Salzman for Inside Policy
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