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Vol. VII, No. 10 Oct. 15 , 2016
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In this edition...
Events: Great Canadian Debate tickets on sale
Housing: The real cause of high house prices in Canada
Economy: Optimism about the economy on the wane
Justice: MLI paper delves into the numbers on Canada's justice deficit
Inside Policy: The foreign policy issue
Environment: Why a carbon tax won't drastically alter emissions
History: Crowley on what makes Canada great
Health care: Charting a path for reform
Other MLI news
Tickets for Great Canadian Debate on Canada's seniors moving fast
Get your tickets now for the next Great Canadian Debate!
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente and seniors' rights advocate Susan Eng will debate the motion: " Canada must stop coddling its spoiled seniors ".

Poorly-developed land supply policies - not rhetoric about foreign investors - are the real cause of skyrocketing house prices in major Canadian cities.
The authors published an op-ed on the subject in the Report on Business. Speer also discussed the matter in an interview on BNN.
Sluggish growth in the Canadian economy has returned, according to MLI Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross .
His Leading Economic Indicator, which slowed to 0.1 per cent growth in August , showed the Canadian economy is demonstrating few signs of a substantive recovery.
MLI report reveals justice system problems that can no longer be ignored
Canada has a lot of work to do to make its justice system work properly for Canadians.
A new MLI report by Scott Newark delves into the numbers on Canada's justice system and finds it consistently fails to measure up.
Newark also authored an op-ed for the Sun chain of newspapers on the subject.
The Cold War is long over, but there's still plenty for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to do. That's the message from MLI Munk Senior Fellow Shuvaloy Majumdar and his co-author, documentary filmmaker Marcus Kolga, in the cover story of the October 2016 edition of Inside Policy.

Ottawa's new carbon tax will be ineffective, says Philip Cross in an interview on CBC's Power and Politics . Why? A few cents more at the gas pump won't force people to dramatically change their behaviour.

We shouldn't let a controversial past prevent us from celebrating Canada's greatness, writes Brian Lee Crowley in the Ottawa Citizen.

Greater provincial freedom the path to health care reform
It's time to rewrite the script on Ottawa's failed attempts to reform Canada's expensive and under-performing health care system, write Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer in the National Post.
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