Macdonald-Laurier Institute

“Canada has long expressed that it stands with the victims of terrorism, but standing with them should mean more than condemning attacks after they happen. It should mean confronting the systems that reward and entrench violence, and saying clearly, in Canadian law, that terrorism will not be permitted to pay,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Sarah Teich for The Bureau regarding her recent “Pay-for-slay” paper.

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https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/terror-shouldnt-pay-in-canada-sarah-teich-for-the-bureau/

Read full paper⬇️
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/the-economics-of-terror-why-canada-should-explicitly-criminalize-pay-for-slay-programs/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

“While the Trump administration touted an amoral might-makes-right mentality, the most ideological corners of the online right slipped into antisemitism, conspiracism, and ethnonationalist purity spirals—revealing that the right can go off the deep end as much as the left. Indeed, the far left and far right ends of the horseshoe have shaken hands over Epstein, the Iran War, and much else,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Eric Kaufmann for First Things.

Read here⬇️
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/toward-ethical-populism-eric-kaufmann-in-first-things/

Canada was built on a commitment to peace, order, and good government, and on the premise that a liberal democracy can unite a diverse society. In the wake of October 7, that premise is now being tested.

In “United in hate: The unlikely 'red–green–brown' alliance behind rising antisemitism in Canada,” MLI Senior Fellow Sheryl Saperia and Ches W. Parsons examine how far-left activists, Islamist movements, and far-right extremists in Canada have converged around a shared hostility toward Jews, Israel, and the liberal democratic order.

Read full commentary here⬇️
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/united-in-hate-the-unlikely-red-green-brown-alliance-behind-rising-antisemitism-in-canada-sheryl-saperia-and-ches-w-parsons/

“Ultimately, the answer must involve bringing Canada in line with the more competitive tax treatment offered in the U.S., in the form of capital cost allowances and depreciation regimes, and following the playbook from the original oilsands build-out of the last commodity cycle. The massive geopolitical and economic prize warrants it,” writes Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment at MLI.

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https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/trans-mountain-proves-the-business-case-for-a-west-coast-pipeline-heather-exner-pirot-in-the-hub/

“It is time for Ottawa to step beyond the sidelines and overcome its domestic hesitations. By driving the creation of an empowered international security shield and backing it with elite CAF capabilities, Canada can protect millions of innocent civilians, support Lebanese sovereignty, and prove that Canadian internationalism is still an active force for global peace,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Patrice Dutil.

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https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/canada-can-help-lebanon-if-ottawa-finds-the-political-will-patrice-dutil-in-the-hill-times/

“Champlain was once an integral part of the history of Ontario. He was an expert navigator, a brave commander of men, a courageous explorer, an extraordinary cartographer and, even better, a writer and deeply observant anthropologist who left the world with the best and most complete descriptions of the Indigenous peoples of the Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Patrice Dutil.

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https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/champlain-statue-removal-an-embarrassment-for-the-country-patrice-dutil-in-the-national-post/

“Standing with those targeted and protecting Canadians from the next attack requires understanding that what has occurred is foreign interference through terrorist financing. Combatting this phenomenon requires a systemic approach. We must confront the foreign entities paying for violence, as well as the technologies facilitating recruitment, prosecuting the financiers if they are present in Canada and imposing sanctions if they are not,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Sarah Teich.

Read here⬇️
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/shooters-for-hire-network-in-toronto-shows-a-new-front-in-the-fight-against-terror-financing-sarah-tiech-in-the-globe-and-mail/