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Brian Lee Crowley

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Brian Lee Crowley

@brianleecrowley

Ottawa think tanker, public intellectual, public speaker, author, PhD from LSE. My pronouns are exactly what you think they are.

Ottawa

Joined January 2010

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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Jan 31
You have questions? We have answers! @MLInstitute
Carson Jerema
@CarsonJerema
Jan 30
The best book I've read on Canadian history is from @brianleecrowley, Fearful Symmetry, in 2009. Going through it again. I think it has answers to how Canada should respond to the current moment: small, competent government, self-reliance, and strong families. Column coming
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Jun 3, 2025
Just fyi the seating order protocol around the FMs’ table is based on the order in which provinces joined Confederation. The original four (ON, QC, NS & NB) all flank the PM at the head of the table. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador are farthest away. This is
Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@Tablesalt13
Jun 2, 2025
🚨🚨NO WAY They just shoved Danielle in the corner and put Houston and Ford beside the PM in a MEETING ABOUT OIL PIPELINES NO. FIN. WAY!
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Aug 3, 2020
According to employment lawyer Howard Levitt, if Trudeau and Morneau were running a corporation, the conflicts of interest in WE case would have justified their dismissal. @financialpost ⁦@MLInstitute⁩ business.financialpost.com/executive/care…
Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Aug 29, 2021
Yup. No PM in Canadian history has ever faced nasty protesters shouting obscenities or otherwise lowering the dignity of the office. #elxn44 images.app.goo.gl/n1f4kT6G1vey9q…
Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Jan 19, 2022
Hope the next female inmate sexually assaulted by her male- bodied sex offender cellmate sues the pants off the @CBA_News for their shameful complicity in this mad policy. reduxx.info/post/canadian-…
Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Oct 31, 2024
I hate to say I told you so, but…. @MLInstitute
Vesper
@vesperdigital
Oct 30, 2024
𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄 In 2019...The Macdonald Laurier Institute predicted surgically how China's interference in Canadian politics would unfold today! Proof, @JustinTrudeau was briefed by CSIS every year since 2019 from MSM & has been lying to everyone since. #ShareThis
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Mar 9, 2024
I cannot agree Thomas. We live in a world that regularly and successfully brings immediate emergency food, shelter, health, admin and other aid to victims of disasters around the world (earthquakes, tsunamis, conflict, wildfires and more). Yet we allegedly find ourselves so
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Apr 14, 2024
Given that the federal government is at this very moment actively promoting and defending its on line harms legislation I have to say that I think it is completely improper for @GGCanada to involve herself in what can only be interpreted as a politically-inspired campaign.
Governor General of Canada
@GGCanada
Apr 11, 2024
Replying to @GGCanada
Spreading the word: encourage others to join the campaign by using #WeDeserveBetter in their posts. Learn more: gg.ca/en/digital-res…
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Jun 22, 2025
Replying to @Wokewaster and @Vote_UKIP
If you don’t want to drink, the solution is not to order alcohol, not to force everyone else to go teetotal. Why is it everyone else’s responsibility to deprive themselves because Muslims find it hard to act in accordance with their own religious observances?
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Apr 16, 2020
I am one of many proud “cringeworthy anti-China bottom-barrel idiots” as certified by the semi-official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China. A badge of honour! Surely you have not exhausted your lexicon of Stalinist epithets and abuse. Bring it on! globaltimes.cn/content/118585…
Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Mar 9, 2024
Further to the interesting convo this has provoked let me add that anyone who thinks that the world cannot come up with an alternative to #UNRWA to bring aid to the #Palestinians in #Gaza must begin by explaining why 1) Gaza is the *one* refugee situation in the world that
Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Mar 9, 2024
I cannot agree Thomas. We live in a world that regularly and successfully brings immediate emergency food, shelter, health, admin and other aid to victims of disasters around the world (earthquakes, tsunamis, conflict, wildfires and more). Yet we allegedly find ourselves so
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Sep 21, 2023
Ever read something and feel envious that someone else got to the nub of the matter so eloquently? “It’s important not to let distaste for Mr. Trudeau—an opportunistic, lightweight, preachy hand-wringer of a politician—get in the way of the distressing point that India might
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
May 17, 2025
Replying to @msSharanKaur
Let me add my voice to Ian’s. I was the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist in Finance and held the rank of an ADM. I have no problem with a budget being delayed until early autumn but the excuse that there isn’t enough time to do one by then is simply rubbish. A key part of our
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Brian Lee Crowley
@brianleecrowley
Mar 23, 2023
Joe Biden in Ottawa, my take for RCP: “America’s rallying the liberal democracies against China-led authoritarians. Yet [it] faces the real possibility that [Canada’s] institutions may be so compromised as to be unable to act in the interests of the West.”
Losing Canada | RealClearPolitics
From realclearpolitics.com
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