Macdonald-Laurier Institute
AbbreviationMLI
Formation2010[1]
TypePublic policy think tank
Headquarters323 Chapel Street, Suite #300, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7Z2, Canada
Key people
Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director[2]
Websitemacdonaldlaurier.ca

The Macdonald–Laurier Institute (MLI) is a public policy think tank located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, affiliated with the American libertarian Atlas Network.[3][4][5][6] Its Managing Director is Brian Lee Crowley, who founded the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies.[7]

Founded in 2010, the institute is named after John A. Macdonald, a Tory and Canada's first prime minister, and Wilfrid Laurier, a Grit (Liberal) the country's first French-Canadian prime minister.[8] MLI is a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency.[9] The institute has a board of directors and an internal advisory board that select themes and submit its research for external review. The institute is funded by corporate and individual donors, as well as from private foundation funding.[10][11]

Its political stance has been described as market-oriented.[12] MLI says it is non-partisan.[13] In August 2022, Russia designated the MLI as an "undesirable organisation".[14]

Publishing

MLI publishes the periodical Inside Policy,[15] and produces books, reports, commentary, columns, and video.[16] Since its foundation in March 2010, MLI has produced papers offering its perspective on issues such as crime statistics, Indigenous post-secondary education, inter-provincial trade, and prison radicalisation. In addition, study series have been initiated in the areas of Canada's founding ideas and the creation of a national security strategy for Canada such as the series on Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resource Economy Series.[17]

MLI published its first book in May 2010. Titled The Canadian Century: Moving out of America's Shadow, the book appeared on the best-seller lists of the Montreal Gazette.[18]

Disinfowatch

In September 2020, MLI launched "DisinfoWatch," a project to monitor and track disinformation in Canada and debunk misinformation, with a specific focus on the COVID-19 pandemic.[19] The project is funded by the Macdonald–Laurier Institute, the United States Department of State’s Global Engagement Center, and Journalists for Human Rights.[20] Its listed research partners include the East StratCom Task Force, European Values Center for Security Policy, Henry Jackson Society, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, and the Stockholm Free World Forum.[21]

Impact

MLI contributors and staff have appeared in national and regional news media comment on a variety of national issues.[22] The institute's Op-Eds have appeared in Canadian national newspapers such as The Globe and Mail and National Post, as well as in the Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Windsor Star, Moncton Times & Transcript, Halifax Chronicle-Herald. The institute has also been highlighted in Foreign Policy magazine,[23] The Wall Street Journal[24] and The Economist.

According to a report in The Guardian, a multi-year MLI campaign defended oil and gas development rights on Indigenous land. For several years, it helped discourage Canada's government from implementing a United Nations declaration on Indigenous peoples' rights to reject pipelines or drilling, until Parliament eventually passed a law in 2021. The Guardian said the MLI campaign was in partnership with the Atlas Network, a libertarian-conservative group based in the United States, but MLI disputed the relationship.[25]

Political stance

Alejandro Chafuen, former president of the Atlas Network and current president of the Acton Institute, praised MLI in a 2012 Forbes article describing the market-oriented think tank landscape in Canada.[12] The social democratic Broadbent Institute referred to the MacDonald-Laurier Institute as a "right-wing charity" in a 2018 article[26] and MLI was described as similarly minded to the Fraser Institute in a 2012 article by the right-leaning National Post.[27] The Fraser Institute, like the Macdonald–Laurier Institute, are both part of the Atlas Network.[28] MLI says it is non-partisan.[13]

Organisation and publications

MLI has a Board of Directors, an Advisory Council, and a Research Advisory Board.[29]

References

  1. ↑ "The Macdonald-Laurier Institute: A Decade of Canadian Public Policy Thought Leadership". Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
  2. ↑ "Who Makes MLI Work". Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
  3. ↑ Dembicki, Geoff (2022-07-18). "How a conservative US network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 2023-08-17. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  4. ↑ Northam, Jackie (December 27, 2023). "Canada grapples with the effects of deteriorating relations with India and China".
  5. ↑ "Who we are". Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "Global Directory". Atlas Network. Archived from the original on 2021-07-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ↑ "Brian Lee Crowley". www.cpacanada.ca. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  8. ↑ "Welcome to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute". Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  9. ↑ "The Macdonald-Laurier Institute / L'institut Macdonald-Laurier". Canada Revenue Agency. 2022-05-25. Archived from the original on 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  10. ↑ http://watch.sixthestate.net/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PeterMunk?from=Main.AureaFoundation%5B%5D
  11. ↑ "Support Us". Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  12. 1 2 Chafuen, Alejandro (6 August 2013). "We See Thee Rise: Canada's Emerging Role In Policy Leadership". Forbes. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  13. 1 2 "Welcome to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute". Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  14. ↑ "Российский Минюст объявил "нежелательными" три канадских организации. Две из них связаны с Украиной". Meduza (in Russian). 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
  15. ↑ "Inside Policy: The Magazine of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute". Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
  16. ↑ "Home". Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
  17. ↑ Crowley, Brian Lee; Coates, Ken (30 May 2013). The Way Out: New thinking about Aboriginal engagement and energy infrastructure to the West Coast (PDF) (Report). Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resource Economy Series. Macdonald–Laurier Institute. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  18. ↑ "Bestsellers". The Montreal Gazette. 19 June 2010.
  19. ↑ "MLI Launches DisinfoWatch project led by Marcus Kolga | MLI". Macdonald-Laurier Institute. 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  20. ↑ Chase, Steven (February 28, 2021). "Canada among targets of Twitter accounts shut down for links to Kremlin and proxies". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  21. ↑ "About". DisinfoWatch. Archived from the original on 2023-03-02. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  22. ↑ See "Media" on MLI web site www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/category/library/media/ Archived 2010-12-21 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ↑ See Foreign Policy magazine, June 25, 2010 Archived May 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, "The Canadian Century", Crowley, Clemens, and Veldhuis
  24. ↑ See Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2010 Archived September 22, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, "Emerging from the Shadow", Phred Dvorak
  25. ↑ Dembicki, Geoff (2022-07-18). "How a conservative US network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  26. ↑ "Right-wing charities report zero political activity…again". PressProgress.ca. 14 May 2018. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  27. ↑ Carlson, Kathryn Blaze (6 May 2012). "Thinking outside the tank: The Fraser Institute is embracing the competition its success helped inspire". National Post. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  28. ↑ Lempert, Ronnie P. A. (2021-02-24). "DisinfoWatch: Ties To Atlas Network, Connected To LPC Political Operatives". Canuck Law. Archived from the original on 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  29. ↑ "Who Makes MLI Work". Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
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