The Institute for Liberal Studies (founded in 2006) is a non-profit educational Institute focused on Canada's classical liberal history and tradition.

The Institute hosts educational and policy seminars, including the Liberty Summer Seminar, and seminars at the University of Windsor

University of Windsor

The University of Windsor is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students...

, University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

, and University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...

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The Liberty Summer Seminar is an annual, outdoor, two-day seminar held in Orono, Ontario since 2001. It has featured speakers like Dr. Jacques Chaoulli

Jacques Chaoulli

Jacques Chaoulli is a French-Canadian physician noted for launching a Supreme Court challenge against the ban in Quebec on private health care.-Biography:...

, Member of Parliament Scott Reid

Scott Reid (politician)

Scott Jeffrey Reid is a Canadian politician. He has served in the Canadian House of Commons since 2000, and currently represents the Ontario riding of Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington as a member of the Conservative Party....

, Marc Emery

Marc Emery

Marc Scott Emery is a Canadian cannabis policy reform advocate, as well as a former cannabis seed seller. He is currently serving a five year sentence in a United States federal prison for selling cannabis seeds....

, Ezra Levant

Ezra Levant

Ezra Isaac Levant is a Canadian lawyer, conservative political activist and media figure. He is the founder and former publisher of the Western Standard, hosts The Source daily on Sun News Network, and has written several books on politics....

, Michael Walker

Michael Walker

- Government :* Michael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham, former British Chief of the Defence Staff* Sir Michael Walker, British ambassador* Michael Walker , Toronto City councillor- The Arts :* Michael Walker , actor...

, Lawrence Reed

Lawrence Reed

Lawrence W. Reed is president of the Foundation for Economic Education , headquartered in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, a position he has held since September 1, 2008. Before joining FEE, Reed served as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland, Michigan based free-market...

, Brian Lee Crowley

Brian Lee Crowley

Brian Lee Crowley, is Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a national public policy think tank based in Ottawa...

, among others.

External links

• Institute for Liberal Studies
• Finding freedom in the Bush - Article about the Liberty Summer Seminar by Gerry Nicholls
• A retreat to advance freedom - Article about the Liberty Summer Seminar by Ezra Levant
  Ezra Levant
  Ezra Isaac Levant is a Canadian lawyer, conservative political activist and media figure. He is the founder and former publisher of the Western Standard, hosts The Source daily on Sun News Network, and has written several books on politics....