Inside Policy Talks

By Macdonald-Laurier Institute

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Inside Policy Talks is the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Ottawa's most influential public policy think tank. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute exists to make bad public policy unacceptable in our nations capital.

Episode Date
Sylvain Charlebois: Canada's dairy industry in decline
Aug 21, 2026
Lt.-Col. Joel Maley: Deterrence is cheaper than defence
Aug 14, 2026
Rainer Knopff and Ted Morton: Canadian judges ran amok with the Charter
Aug 06, 2026
Carl Trueman: Euthanasia, transgenderism, and transgression
Jul 30, 2026
Garry Clement: Foreign actors see Canada as the lane of least resistance
Jul 23, 2026
Rob Henderson: Stigma and expectations will make your life better
Jul 16, 2026
Christine Van Geyn and Ryan Alford: Canadian courts imagine wild scenarios to avoid punishing criminals
Jul 09, 2026
Joel Blit: The 3 stages of the AI revolution
Jun 25, 2026
Michael Bonner: Liberalism is in crisis
Jun 11, 2026
Christopher Dummitt: Canada must teach its national story
Jun 04, 2026
BONUS EPISODE: Rob Henderson in live conversation with Brian Lee Crowley
May 28, 2026
Lorenzo Vidino: How the Muslim Brotherhood quietly threatens the West
May 21, 2026
Andrea Lawlor: Canada’s courts are fair game for criticism
May 14, 2026
Erica Komisar: Healthy family life requires tradeoffs
Apr 30, 2026
Keldon Bester: How to address the demand for online gambling
Apr 23, 2026
Melanie Phillips: The West can’t wrap its head around Islam
Apr 16, 2026
Yuan Yi Zhu, Xavier Foccroulle Ménard and François Côté: The Supreme Court's judicial activism is a threat to Parliamentary sovereignty
Apr 09, 2026
Brendan Case: We need better metrics for human flourishing
Mar 27, 2026
David Wand: Race should not trump merit at Canada’s universities
Mar 19, 2026
Nadav Eyal: For the Islamic regime, survival is victory
Mar 12, 2026
Rob Huebert: Unpacking Canada’s position on the war in Iran
Mar 05, 2026
Sarah Teich & Michael Lima: Canada's Cuba policy is a moral and strategic failure
Feb 26, 2026
This Supreme Court ruling needs a renovation: Gerard Kennedy & Geoffrey Sigalet
Feb 19, 2026
Tony Abbott: The challenge to Western values has never been more severe
Feb 13, 2026
André Côté: Rapidly advancing tech in the face of geopolitics and economic stress
Feb 06, 2026
Dennis Molinaro: Canada under assault from Chinese state interference
Jan 29, 2026
Using lived experience to fight human trafficking and abuse: Michelle Abel, Armando de Miranda, and Peter Copeland for Inside Policy Talks
Jan 22, 2026
Daniel Hess: We need a pro-natal culture
Jan 15, 2026
Garett Jones: Yes, immigration DOES change host countries
Jan 08, 2026
Daly & Mancini: Fixing Canada’s internal trade woes is a national economic imperative
Dec 11, 2025
Paul Warchuk: Property rights are 'precarious' in Canada
Dec 04, 2025
John Gilmour: Commercial encryption is a challenge for signals intelligence
Nov 20, 2025
Hillel Neuer: The UN matters whether we like it or not
Nov 13, 2025
Nathan Pinkoski: What’s behind faltering liberalism?
Nov 07, 2025
Yves Giroux: Soaring spending demands effective parliamentary oversight
Oct 30, 2025
John Adams: Rare diseases reveal hard truths about Canada’s healthcare gaps
Oct 23, 2025
Andrew Fox: 'Palestinianism' remains a threat to Middle East peace
Oct 16, 2025
Stephen Nagy: Canadians should be wary of Chinese influence operations in the West
Oct 09, 2025
Geoffrey Sigalet: What’s at stake in the fight over the notwithstanding clause
Oct 02, 2025
Brenda Shaffer: Global institutions are choosing energy poverty over fossil fuels
Sep 25, 2025
Mary Harrington: I needed to make a feminist case against progressivism
Sep 18, 2025
Louise Perry: It’s time to complicate the West’s account of progressivism
Sep 11, 2025
Geoff Russ and Michael Bonner: Multiculturalism has divided us
Sep 04, 2025
Peter Menzies: It’s time to rethink Canada’s cultural policy
Aug 28, 2025
Patrick T. Brown: The roots of family decline in the West
Aug 21, 2025
Alex Dalziel: Canada must mind Russia’s Arctic ambitions
Aug 14, 2025
Toby Young: Defending free speech in Canada and the UK
Aug 07, 2025
John Ioannidis: What's shaken public confidence in science?
Jul 24, 2025
Helen Joyce: how gender ideology gripped the West
Jul 10, 2025
Leonard Sax: Our culture has broken the bonds across generations
Jun 26, 2025
Oren Cass: Free markets and liberty are not ends unto themselves
Jun 05, 2025
Sam Cooper: How organized crime operates in Canada
May 29, 2025
How mortgage fraud costs Canadians and fuels organized crime
May 22, 2025
Reconciliation at risk? Data shows spike in church arsons after unmarked grave reports in Canada
May 16, 2025
Indigenous students thrive earning degrees in their communities: Ken Coates & Sheila North
May 09, 2025
How provincial trade barriers rip off Canadians: Peter Copeland & Ryan Manucha
Apr 29, 2025
Can Europe guarantee its own security? Balkan Devlen and Peter Hefele
Apr 17, 2025
Can the CBC survive without government subsidies? Peter Copeland and Peter Menzies
Apr 15, 2025
Tackling Canada's housing crunch: Peter Copeland and Ross McKitrick
Apr 08, 2025
How are First Nations' fish farms transforming the West Coast?: Ken Coates and Dallas Smith
Mar 21, 2025
More regulations, fewer families—explaining North America's housing crisis: Peter Copeland and Tim Carney
Mar 12, 2025
Does salmon farming have a future in Canada?: Ken Coates and Linda Sams
Mar 04, 2025
Happily ever after? The case for marriage in Canada: Peter Copeland, Andrea Mrozek & Peter Jon Mitchell
Feb 19, 2025
British Columbia's salmon farmers caught in the net: Ken Coates and Brian Kingzett
Feb 11, 2025
The great tug-of-war over Greenland: Alex Dalziel, Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen, Christian Keldsen, Marisol Maddox, and Jessica Shadian
Feb 07, 2025
Identity politics and the capture of canadian research funding: Peter Copeland and Dave Snow
Feb 05, 2025
US-Canada defense and security cooperation in the Trump era: Balkan Devlen, Jamie Tronnes, Richard Shimooka, and Alexander Lanoszka
Jan 30, 2025
Breaking the cycle: Peter Copeland and Marcell Wilson
Jan 28, 2025
Navigating 2025, foreign policy in the year ahead: Double Trouble with Balkan Devlen and Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Jan 23, 2025
Empowering First Nations' economic growth in Canada: Ken Coates and Kody Penner
Jan 21, 2025
Tariffs, Trump, and the Canadian oil and gas sector: Heather Exner-Pirot and Lisa Baiton
Jan 17, 2025
Reclaiming Sir John A. Macdonald for the next generation: Patrice Dutil and Lindsay Shepherd
Jan 14, 2025
Russia after the fall of Assad: Balkan Devlen, Alexander Lanoszka, and Richard Shimooka
Jan 09, 2025
Can Canada still build affordable homes?: Tim Sargent and Aled Ab Iorweth
Jan 07, 2025
The promise and peril of the AI Revolution: Peter Copeland and Ryan Khurana
Dec 19, 2024
Does Canada's lack of an "Intelligence Culture" put us at risk?: Alexander Dalziel and Michelle Tessier
Dec 18, 2024
SPECIAL FEATURE - Intellectual discourse in Canadian's public and educational landscapes: Peter Copeland with Christopher Dummitt & Lindsay Shepherd
Dec 13, 2024
Double Trouble: The challenge of China and Russia (Live in Calgary)
Dec 12, 2024
Indigenous entrepreneurs are going global – and succeeding: Ken Coates w/ Karen Ogen-Toews & Matt Vickers
Dec 11, 2024
Confiscating Russia's frozen assets for Ukraine's reconstruction: Double Trouble with Balkan Devlen and Aaron Gasch Burnett
Dec 05, 2024
A Hereditary Chief's transformative vision: Ken Coates and Tyee Hasheukumiss (Richard George)
Dec 04, 2024
The evolving battlegrounds of free speech: Peter Copeland and Kristopher Kinsinger
Nov 19, 2024
Trouble at the Canada-US border? Alex Dalziel and Jamie Tronnes
Nov 15, 2024
Canada’s struggle against transnational crime & money laundering: Alex Dalziel and Jamie Ferrill
Nov 05, 2024
The disturbing truth of Canada’s euthanasia program: Peter Copeland and Ramona Coelho
Oct 31, 2024
Using the Notwithstanding clause to fix our justice system: Peter Copeland and Ryan Alford
Oct 25, 2024
Double Trouble: Our fear of escalation makes the West look weak / Balkan Devlen with Edward Hunter Christie
Oct 24, 2024
Is Canada winning the fight against crime?: Peter Copeland and Dave Snow
Oct 16, 2024
The real story behind Canada's housing crisis: Peter Copeland and Matthew Spoke
Oct 10, 2024
Double Trouble: Looking at China from the Baltics, from economic opportunity to authoritarian challenge
Oct 10, 2024
We must preserve safety and fairness in women's sport: Peter Copeland and Emma Hilton
Oct 03, 2024
Canada-US border security - A North American perspective: Alex Dalziel and Alan Bersin
Oct 02, 2024
The new censorship, professional regulators erode free speech: Peter Copeland and Christine Van Geyn
Sep 27, 2024
Double Trouble: Reflections from GLOBESEC
Sep 19, 2024
The hidden world of organized crime in Canada: Todd Hataley and Alexander Dalziel
Sep 06, 2024
Bridging Canada and Latvia: Balkan Devlen and Artis Pabriks
Aug 15, 2024
Double Trouble: Neo-Idealism, a new approach to geopolitics / Balkan Devlen and Benjamin Tallis
Aug 08, 2024
Canada in the global energy transition: Alexander Dalziel and Heather Exner-Pirot
Aug 02, 2024
$100 Billion a year?!? Financial Crime in Canada: Christian Leuprecht and Alexander Dalziel
Jul 25, 2024
Unpacking Canada's announcements at the NATO Summit / Double Trouble
Jul 17, 2024
Canada hangs its head in shame, NATO Summit Wrap-up: Brian Lee Crowley, Jamie Tronnes, Balkan Devlen
Jul 12, 2024
Canada's troops in Latvia / Balkan Devlen, Alexander Lanoszka, and Toms Rostoks
Jul 11, 2024
Double Trouble / NATO and the Indo-Pacific
Jul 04, 2024
Foreign Interference in Canada - what we learned from NSICOP
Jun 28, 2024
Russia and China, partners in the Arctic? / Double Trouble: Balkan Devlen with Alex Dalziel
Jun 20, 2024
A small ally fights back against China and Russia’s threat to energy security / Jüri Seilenthal and Alex Dalziel
Jun 13, 2024
The future of US-Canada relations / Double Trouble: CNAPS at AEI
Jun 06, 2024
Special Episode: "Can the U.N. get much worse?" Hillel Neuer and Casey Babb
May 30, 2024
Antisemitism on campus / Aaron Wudrick and Sydney Greenspoon
May 23, 2024
Double Trouble: Cold War 2.0 / Balkan Devlen with George Takach
May 16, 2024
Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific Construct / Stephen Nagy and Jonathan Berkshire Miller
May 09, 2024
Double Trouble: Goodbye globalization? Balkan Devlen with Elisabeth Braw
May 02, 2024
How a trans activist group undermined medical science / Aaron Wudrick and Mia Hughes
Apr 25, 2024
Facing the Sino-Russian axis / Double Trouble: Balkan Devlen and Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Apr 18, 2024
Human Rights Tribunal has no business policing 'hate speech': Aaron Wudrick with David Thomas
Apr 02, 2024
Out of control immigration is breaking the Canadian social contract: Aaron Wudrick with Siavash Safavi
Mar 28, 2024
Canada could do more in the 'cyber domain': Aaron Wudrick and Christian Leuprecht
Mar 14, 2024
The harms of Covid policy: Aaron Wudrick and Kevin Bardosh
Feb 29, 2024
In defence of civilization: Aaron Wudrick and Michael Bonner
Feb 22, 2024
It is time to permanently defund UNRWA: Jonathan Berkshire Miller and Casey Babb
Feb 20, 2024
The decline in the rule of law in Canada and the Israel-Gaza protests: Aaron Wudrick and Ryan Alford
Feb 15, 2024
Understanding the threat from AI: Balkan Devlen and Darren McKee
Dec 14, 2023
Attitudes to immigration are reshaping political alignment: Aaron Wudrick with Eric Kaufmann
Dec 07, 2023
Antisemitism, Iran, Ukraine, and Trump 2024: Marcus Kolga and David Frum
Nov 30, 2023
Is 'from the river to the sea' hate speech?: Aaron Wudrick and Kaveh Shahrooz
Nov 23, 2023
Special Episode: Brian Lee Crowley's CNAPS launch speech
Nov 17, 2023
A principled path forward for free speech in Canada: Aaron Wudrick and Ryan Alford
Nov 17, 2023
Hybrid warfare and critical undersea infrastructure: Balkan Devlen, Alexander Dalziel and Henri Vanhanen
Nov 10, 2023
Dirty Money, Financial Crime in Canada: Christian Leuprecht in conversation with Aaron Wudrick / MLI
Oct 26, 2023
Antisemitism and terrorism from Tehran to Hamas - Jonathan Berkshire Miller and Kaveh Shahrooz
Oct 19, 2023
The 'new Ottawa consensus' and our broken economy - Aaron Wudrick and Jon Hartley
Oct 05, 2023
Romanian Energy Minister, Sebastian Burduja, talks energy security with Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Sep 21, 2023
Does the foreign-interference inquiry have the right tools?
Sep 12, 2023
Canada's Prime Ministers and the making of foreign policy - Aaron Wudrick and Patrice Dutil
Jul 31, 2023
Can Canada really send more troops to Latvia? - Balkan Devlen and Richard Shimooka
Jul 24, 2023
Canada at NATO's Vilnius Summit - Jonathan Berkshire Miller and Balkan Devlen
Jul 07, 2023
The economic vision of the constitution - Aaron Wudrick and Malcolm Lavoie
Jul 05, 2023
Canada at NATO's upcoming Vilnius Summit - Balkan Devlen and Alexander Lanoszka
Jun 26, 2023