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Vol. VII, No. 6 June 11, 2016
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In this edition...
Great Canadian Debates: Black-Cotler debate Supreme Court activism
Economy: MLI homeownership op-ed runs in the WSJ
Aboriginal Canada: MLI papers set the agenda on UNDRIP
Natural resources: MLI paper urges tweaks to transparency law
Fiscal policy: MLI paper takes redistributionism to its logical conclusion
Economy: Court ruling a boost to tearing down internal trade barriers
Security: Alex Wilner on next steps in the fight against ISIS
Conrad Black and Irwin Cotler close out the 2015-16 Great Canadian Debates season
Another season of the Great Canadian Debates is in the books!
Lord Conrad Black and the Hon. Irwin Cotler debated the motion "Canada's Supreme Court has usurped the proper role of Parliament" on May 31 in Ottawa. Black, a financier, author and columnist, argued in favour of the motion. Cotler, a former federal Justice Minister, argued against.
Click here to watch video and see photos from the event. Stay tuned for announcements about our 2016-17 season shortly!

U.S. policymakers have a lot to learn from Canada when it comes to the homeownership market, Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer write in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.
They also wrote in the National Post about why Ottawa's deficits are anything but forward looking. In another column in the Financial Post, they called the G-7's silence on deficits a powerful rebuke to Ottawa's fiscal plan.
Two MLI authors have framed the debate surrounding the United Nations' controversial declaration surrounding Aboriginal rights.
Ken Coates and Blaine Favel examined the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which Canada's federal government has recently promised to implement, in a pair of papers.
The first argues that Ottawa will need to clarify one of the Declaration's clauses, the notion of Free, Prior, Informed Consent (FPIC). The second examines next steps for the government as it follows through on its election promise to implement UNDRIP in its entirety.
This earned the authors an op-ed in iPolitics and several other media items: a story by Postmedia that ran in papers across the country, a John Ivison column in the National Post, a Saskatoon Star Phoenix story, an Ottawa Citizen editorial and an iPolitics story.
MLI drives the debate on natural resource transparency laws and indigenous groups
UNDRIP isn't the only place where MLI showed recent thought leadership on indigenous affairs.
MLI Senior Fellow Dwight Newman co-authored, with Métis lawyer Kaitlyn S. Harvey, a paper that examines how new transparency laws can be tweaked to strengthen the burgeoning relationships between Aboriginal groups and natural resource companies.
The paper earned Newman and Harvey an op-ed in the Globe and Mail. Newman also discussed the paper's major points on CBC's The Exchange.
Ian Lee and Sean Speer satirized the redistributionist mania that has taken hold in Ottawa with a new publication.
The commentary earned MLI high-profile coverage in a Margaret Wente column in the Globe and Mail.

MLI's objections to barriers to internal trade between the provinces were vindicated in April, thanks to a New Brunswick court ruling.
A provincial court judge cited the will of the Fathers of Confederation in acquitting Gerard Comeau of transporting 12 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor across the Quebec-New Brunswick border in 2012
MLI has long maintained that barriers to trade between the provinces are not only bad for business - they are unconstitutional.
MLI author Ian A. Blue published an op-ed in the National Post arguing that the decision was just the first crack in the internal trade barriers dam.
Brian Lee Crowley, who did several interviews celebrating the decision, said "this case has struck a courageous blow for our founders' vision".
The Macdonald-Laurier Intellectual Property report is off the ground!
The newsletter, which MLI plans to send out to your e-mail inbox once every two months, will deliver a regular look at the latest news related to intellectual property.
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Military victory against ISIS just the beginning, writes Alex Wilner in the Hill Times
Coalition forces are nearing the short-term goal of militarily defeating ISIS, writes MLI Senior Fellow Alex Wilner for The Hill Times. But securing the peace will be far more difficult.
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