Families are struggling to find affordable housing. Healthcare systems are stretched. Roads, schools, and other essential infrastructure can’t keep pace with rapid population growth. For many Canadians, it feels like the country’s capacity is no longer keeping up. Immigration remains essential to Canada’s long-term prosperity, economy, and demographic future. But today’s immigration levels — and the system that sets them — are increasingly out of step with Canada’s ability to welcome and integrate newcomers. Without restoring balance, we risk undermining public confidence in one of Canada’s greatest strengths. Your support will help us find practical solutions to make the immigration system work better for everyone. DONATE NOW⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/restorin… @CopelanPeter

“Carney clearly has the technocratic instincts of an abundance politician. What remains unclear is whether he has the political courage to tell powerful constituencies, including some that normally support his party, that the arrangements benefiting them must change,” writes Mark Harding (@Mark_S_Harding), senior fellow at MLI. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/does-mar…

“Far from a sweeping reconstruction of the world-order via a bold alliance of middle-powers, ‘associate membership’ of the EU is more vacuity and bluster from a Prime Minister who should be taking action. Carney evidently says much that he does not mean and, worse, he does not follow through. The EU is a valued trading partner and Canada should get on with updating CETA. But most of all, Canada must get back to the negotiating table with the US,” writes David Collins (@davidcollinslaw), senior fellow at MLI. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/associat…

“Casey Babb, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, said he has witnessed another inversion take place. He contends Jews are no longer being ridiculed for their weaknesses as victims—for the suffering their people experienced, for their social standing. Instead, modern antizionists see Jews as oppressors—the very perpetrators of the atrocities that have been inflicted on themselves for centuries. For Babb, the most concerning element is that while the classic antisemites seemed to understand they were being hateful, the modern antizionist does not. ‘The idiots who targeted me and my father, who targeted many of you, they knew what they were doing was bad, and probably immoral,’ the panellist said. ‘The antizionist, though, considers what they’re doing to be a good thing.’” —Director of the Promised Land project Casey Babb (@DrCaseyBabb) quoted in @TheHubCanada thehub.ca/2026/09/25/how-ant…

“I tend to believe that you need to have the public square as that pressure release valve but the other thing is, you get surprised that something that you think of as a conservative issue actually has majority popular support. We’re testing that this fall with the nine referendum questions we’re putting forward,” says Alberta Premier, @ABDanielleSmith. Watch the full interview by MLI’s Managing Director @brianleecrowley on @TheNewsForum_ ⬇️ piped.video/watch?v=YQO_IgUf…

They didn’t wait for an invitation. They just started building. 👷🏽‍♀️⚒️🥾 Eight Indigenous women. Eight different paths. All leading through enterprise, ownership, and economic opportunity.  Over the past several months, I sat down with incredible entrepreneurial leaders: Crystal Smith, Karen Ogen, Kim Baird, Claire Sault, Bobbie Racette, Lorie Young, Chelsee-Marie Pettit, and Trisha Pitura. Half did that work at the Nation level, building economic and fiscal capacity through leadership and governance. The other half built businesses, taking risks, competing in the market, creating jobs, and growing enterprises of their own. I wanted to understand what they had achieved, how they built it, and what their ideologies and experiences tell us about the conditions that allow people, businesses, and Nations to prosper. Those conversations became the foundation of my paper Carrying It Forward: Indigenous women, economic leadership, and the power of enterprise, published today by the @MLInstitute One of the central arguments I make is simple: participation does not necessarily equal prosperity. But rather, prosperity is created through enterprise, ownership, investment, and intentional wealth creation. And for First Nations governments and people, greater economic independence means greater freedom to make decisions and making them on their own terms. These eight women show what that looks like in real life. And it’s awesome and inspiring ✨ Read Carrying It Forward: macdonaldlaurier.ca/carrying…

Indigenous women have been leading in business and trade for centuries across North America. However, Indigenous women became disconnected from these responsibilities when the Crown imposed a sex-based hierarchy with the Gradual Enfranchisement Act of 1869. Under that act a First Nations woman who married a non-First Nations man lost her legal status as an Indian and also lost her membership in the First Nation from where she originated, which meant she lost any rights and benefits administered through the Indian Act. Though the policy of sex discrimination was eliminated in 1985, First Nations women continue to face measurable economic disadvantages. Despite these challenges, Indigenous women are forging ahead, owning and building businesses, employing workers, and pursuing greater economic capacity. In a special report by Karen Restoule (@karenrestoule), director of Indigenous Affairs at MLI, Restoule interviews eight Indigenous women to get their first-hand perspectives on economic leadership. “The eight women examined here have taken very different paths and demonstrate that there is no ‘one path’ to business success — and there doesn’t have to be just one. What connects them is the decision to build, and the vision and persistence to see what they’ve built grow. That is the story currently unfolding. The question must be: is Canada creating the conditions for their ambitions to grow?” writes Restoule. Read full special report with policy recommendations here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/carrying…

“Will we as their fellow citizens demand that this duty be upheld, or become complicit in our failure to demand better? Will we ourselves act? Or will we fall back to “whatever”? That is no longer an option. Indeed, it never was,” writes Andrew Bennett in @TheHubCanada, Advisory Board member of MLI’s Promised Land project. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/canadian…

Last night MLI's @CopelanPeter sat down with @EABeauregard for the Toronto launch of Anti-Civilization, The Collapse of Society and the Case for the Common Good. @sutherlandbooks For a taste of their conversation check out MLI's podcast with Etienne: piped.video/watch?v=O76fViNN…

MLI’s Managing Director @brianleecrowley sits down with Alberta Premier @ABDanielleSmith on @TheNewsForum_ for a wide-ranging conversation on her political philosophy, Alberta’s place in Canada, energy, equalization, federalism, and Canada-U.S. relations. Watch the episode here⬇️ piped.video/watch?v=YQO_IgUf…

Canada’s housing crisis is often framed as a problem of insufficient government support, yet barriers such as municipal rules, development fees, and other layers of red tape restrict housing supply and drive up prices. In “Built-in barriers: Incentives alone won’t solve Canada’s housing crisis,” Anthony De Luca-Baratta examines why Canada’s housing affordability problem persists and argues that Ottawa must go beyond offering financial incentives to build. “Municipal development restrictions in Canada go much further. Builders in cities across the country are subject to every sort of regulation imaginable, from density limits, to strict zoning rules, to sky-high development fees, to restrictions on building characteristics like height, dimensions, and materials. Put together, these regulations severely restrict supply and push home prices through the roof. Complying with mountains of red tape costs money, and builders pass on those costs to consumers, knowing that they have no choice but to accept the higher prices to find somewhere to live,” writes De Luca-Baratta. Read full MLI commentary here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/built-in…

“Supporting Israel does not mean ignoring Palestinians. Palestinians deserve security, dignity and a political future. But there can be no durable peace while Hamas remains an armed organization capable of repeating the kind of attack Israel suffered on October 7,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Alan Kessel for Inside Policy. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/if-ukrai…

Join us for the Energy Security Summit 2027, March 9–10 in Ottawa. Policy-makers & energy experts will come together to examine Canada’s pressing energy security challenges, from emerging threats to the technologies shaping the future of energy security. macdonaldlaurier.ca/event/en…

“DEI leads to discrimination against individuals in favour of increasing participation from identities (race, colour, gender, etc.) that are said to be equity-deserving. In Canada, this discrimination is pervasive and long-standing, and contrary to Section 15(1) of the Charter, though ostensibly saved by the wide scope of affirmative action permitted by Section 15(2),” writes MLI Senior Fellow Peter MacKinnon. Read here⬇️ nationalpost.com/opinion/pet…

“The new Canada–Ukraine defence partnership is an important investment in deterrence abroad. It should be matched by consequences for hostile Russian activity at home, including the expulsion of officials who abuse diplomatic cover. Moscow only understands strength and reacts to consequences. Estonia has learned to impose them. Canada should too,” write Stanley Kutcher and Marcus Kolga (@kolga) in the @nationalpost. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/canada-m…

MLI Senior Fellow Geoffrey Sigalet (@GeoffSigalet) hosted a conference on constitutional law at @UBC, bringing together scholars, practitioners, and judges to explore important questions at the heart of MLI’s two legal projects, the Landmark Cases Council and Judicial Foundations project. Conference participants included MLI contributors and fellows Ryan Alford (@ryan_p_alford), Dave Snow, Mark Harding (@Mark_S_Harding), Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z), Kerry Sun (@SunKerry), and Peter Copeland (@CopelanPeter). The event also featured a public lecture by former Supreme Court Justice The Hon. Russell Brown, who serves on the advisory board of both projects. Watch the public lecture "Power, and its Separation" here: piped.video/watch?v=-AjKVTmy…

“Ottawa is right to encourage investment in Canada. But it has chosen Donald Trump’s path, not a Canadian one. We should keep to the tried-and-true recipe we have followed in tax reforms over the past half century: lower the tax rate and broaden the tax base,” writes Jack M. Mintz, distinguished fellow at MLI. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/the-mega…

“There’s still lots of room for Canada to diversify its oil and gas exports even more. European nations are looking for non-U.S., non-Middle East energy supplies of energy. Because the U.S. already had the infrastructure to produce and export large quantities of oil and gas it was positioned to expand quickly into Europe both after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and when war broke out in Iran earlier this year. Its net exports of oil have grown by two and a half times since 2021,” writes Philip Cross, senior fellow at MLI. Read here⬇️ macdonaldlaurier.ca/surprise…

“‘We are at an interesting moment, where Canada and Norway have the opportunity to revisit our strategic relationship,’ says Alexander Dalziel, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an independent think-tank in Ottawa. ‘Our countries are subject to similar challenges, so there really is no downside to stepping up co-operation.’ Disruptions to the previously prevalent orientation towards peaceful co-operation, which started after the Cold War, have led to changing security dynamics. This, in turn, inspires increased efforts to strengthen co-operation between like-minded allies, says Mr. Dalziel, who suggests that Canada and Norway can build on existing ties that are based on common goals, complementary strengths and a shared history steeped in Norse exploration, World War II alliances and Arctic stewardship. ‘During World War II, Canada hosted Camp Norway, a military training and assembly base in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia,’ he explains, adding that other important bilateral efforts at the time included ‘Little Norway,’ a training camp for around 3,000 Norwegian pilots and navigators that was set up on Toronto Island and later moved to Muskoka, Ont., as well as joint Arctic missions in Svalbard that brought together Canadian, British and exiled Norwegian forces. Today, as security challenges impact a range of areas, including sovereignty, energy security, global supply chains and sustainability commitments, ‘Canada and Norway have distinct capabilities that can help strengthen intelligence collection and assessment, military co-operation and defence industrial co-operation,’ says Mr. Dalziel. Attesting the heightened interest in collaboration are a number of announcements, among them the news of Canada joining a trilateral partnership with Germany and Norway by selecting ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) as a preferred supplier for expanding submarine capabilities. Another expanded bilateral agreement, between the Canadian and Norwegian coast guards, extends education and training co-operation through 2036, with Arctic operational readiness a central focus. ‘There are many shared economic interests, such as oil and gas, critical minerals, technology, security and defence, and fisheries. We’re also very like-minded on trade,’ says Mr. Dalziel, who adds that this makes Norway a natural fit for the Canadian government’s diversification agenda.” — Alexander Dalziel quoted in the @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…