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National Defence

Defining a role for the Canadian Armed Forces in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief: Christian Leuprecht and Peter Kasurak in the Hill Times

Overall, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief is a significant and growing demand on CAF resources—though it fits uneasily with the vision the CAF...

 

August 5, 2020 at 7:53 pm read more

Webinar Panel Video: Three Years on the Baltic Watch

In 2017, Canada took up a leadership role as the Framework Nation of NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) Battlegroup in Latvia. And, immediately...

 

July 6, 2020 at 7:21 pm read more

COVID-19 unlikely to fundamentally disrupt Canada-US defence relations: Teeple and McBride for Inside Policy

As we have in the past we will overcome this novel challenge to relations with our neighbour and ally, and face growing security...

 

June 2, 2020 at 7:39 pm read more

Canada must divide its military resources along foreign and domestic lines: Christian Leuprecht in the Globe and Mail

Canada can learn from its allies: home and away need not be zero-sum games, especially when a country spends as little on its...

 

May 25, 2020 at 7:09 pm read more

Why Russia’s Arctic Strategy Requires a Realistic Response from Canada: New MLI report by Aurel Braun and Stephen J. Blank

OTTAWA, ON (April 9, 2020): Though the COVID-19 pandemic has justifiably captured the public’s attention, it is important to remember that authoritarian regimes...

 

April 9, 2020 at 4:26 pm read more

Carving Out Capacity and Preserving Capability during COVID-19 (and Beyond): Adam MacDonald and Carter Vance for Inside Policy

The Canadian military’s ongoing COVID-19 response raises longer-term issues of its role in supporting governments on the domestic front, write Adam MacDonald and Carter...

 

March 26, 2020 at 1:45 pm read more

Why Canada’s North Warning System Needs an Overhaul: New MLI Commentary

OTTAWA, ON (January 14, 2020): Regardless of the party in power, the federal government has been notorious for dropping the ball when it...

 

January 14, 2020 at 9:12 pm read more

What China’s rise as a polar power means for Canada: New MLI paper by Anne-Marie Brady

OTTAWA, ON (December 30, 2019): While few Canadians have been paying attention, distant China has become a rising power in their own back...

 

December 30, 2019 at 8:51 pm read more

Ep. 39 - A New NATO to counter Putin's Challenge with Quentin Hodgson and Elliot Tepper

In the latest episode of Pod Bless Canada, MLI Research Advisory Board Member Dr. Elliot Tepper was joined by Quentin Hodgson, a senior...

 

December 6, 2019 at 3:44 pm read more

What Canada can do about Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific region: Brett Byers in the Hill Times

Canada and its allies should step up, work together, and protect the international norms and institutions that safeguard the maritime security of the...

 

November 20, 2019 at 9:49 pm read more
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    It is not at all clear that raising inflationary expectations is the way to grow the economy. What’s really required is smarter fiscal...

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