Dawson Strategic

If RIM is targeted by foreign investors, the Canadian government will face tough choices regarding net benefits to Canada and implications for national security, argues Laura Dawson.  In a commentary for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute entitled Potash and BlackBerries: Should Canada treat all foreign direct investment the same? Dawson argues while the sale of Canada’s flagship intellectual property (IP) company to a foreign [...]

Dawson Strategic organized a panel discussion in Calgary on February 29th on Canada’s energy prospects in the United States and Latin America and China.  The event, sponsored by Norton Rose law firm, with the assistance of the United States Consulate General, drew over 60 participants.  The US-Canada Panel included Laura Dawson, Paul Frazer (3clicksolutions) and [...]

Canada is currently losing its position as a beacon for FDI. Between 1995 and 2004, FDI was equal to about 15 percent of domestic business investment, but that has now fallen to about seven percent. Key to our long-term success is a predictable, stable environment for investment and business development that starts with neutral depoliticized [...]

Spring 2012 events for Dawson Strategic January 30: Attending the US Chamber of Commerce public consultations on the Beyond the Border Action Plan in Washington, DC, followed by the US Department of Commerce Working Groups on US-Canada Regulatory Cooperation on January 31. February 9: Releasing a paper on Canada’s prospective role in the Trans-Pacfic Partnership through [...]

“At no time in our history have our national challenges been as complex and long-term as those we face today.  But the most salient trait of our time is not the threats posed by terrorists, an anemic economy or climate change.  It’s our inability to respond coherently and effectively to obvious problems before they become [...]

Last Sunday’s Toronto Star Editorial  ‘Buy America’ is a wake-up call for Canada that I wrote with veteran US-Canada analyst Paul Frazer provoked a lot of feedback from Canadians concerned about Buy America.  I’ve been talking to some of them in radio call-in shows  John Gormley Live on News Talk 650 CKOM in Saskatoon (Sept 26), and [...]

With the addition of Professor Ben Perrin, Laura Dawson, Ph.D., Professor Stephen Blank, and Brigadier-General James Cox as Senior Fellows, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute is poised to tackle even more pressing issues facing Canada’s federal government. Our new scholars are recognized experts in their fields of Canada-U.S. relations, trade, defence, human rights, and immigration and we are delighted [...]