“NOT AFRAID” – Getting comfortable with our natural resource future
In January 2016, one of Canada’s most nuanced thinkers on natural resource issues will again partner with Resource Works for a public speaking event in Vancouver: Brian Lee Crowley of Ottawa’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Who licenses the licensors? Thoughts on the future of social license
Canada’s natural resources can and should be a mainstay of our prosperity for many years to come. For that to happen, however, we need not just the natural resource endowment itself, but some far more valuable elements that provide indispensable context
Who licenses the licensors?
Brian-Lee Crowley, managing director of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute, gave a speech at Resource Works on the concept of social license
Commentary: We have to put trust in our institutions if we want them to make tough decisions for us
BC often seems stuck in an endless struggle over resource development choices. In theory, we have effective public institutions to help guide us through tough collective decisions like these. So why do they seem to have so little influence?