Macdonald-Laurier Institute ✓

@MLInstitute · Ottawa, Ontario · joined 13 Feb 2010

Canada's leading independent, nationally focused think tank based in Ottawa. We exist to make poor public policy unacceptable in the nation's capital.

23 014Followers

4 651Following

31 044Posts total

6.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views745this account3 137median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.24%this account10.26%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.83%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	745	3 137	0.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.24%	10.26%	0.32×
Engagement rate	2.83%	1.47%	1.92×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

3.2K2 Sep

682

692

745

8853 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.46%2 Sep

3.81%

1.73%

0.81%

2.82%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes60.6%123 in total

Reposts22.7%46 in total

Replies4.4%9 in total

Quotes1.5%3 in total

Bookmarks10.8%22 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

“On average, we send about 4.1 million barrels a day to the United States. That's an enormous amount. That's the most that any country has ever sent to another country ever in the history of the world, and we do it every single day,” says @ExnerPirot. Heather Exner-Pirot, https: 885 views · 15 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 “Overall, I estimate Canada’s average tariff response works out to about 30 percent, on average, across affected goods. That’s roughly 60 cents of response for every dollar of U.S. tariff. While not full dollar-for-dollar retaliation, as the government frames it, it is still a ht 745 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 “Although there has been much opacity regarding the precise reasons that trade negotiations between Canada and the US failed, numerous reports, including from Canadian Prime Minister Carney himself, suggest that one of the main reasons was that the US was attempting to interfere 692 views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 “Canada faces healthcare staffing challenges. But the idea that medical professionals are abandoning Canada for private-pay systems is a bait and switch. Staff shortages often exist because the strain of working within the current medicare system drives professionals out of https 682 views · 15 likes · 7 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 “The problem is beginning to be addressed in America but is out of control in Canada. In the U.S., the proportion of EDI keywords in government-funded research soared until 2020-21, began to decline in 2024 and plunged in 2025 as the Trump administration cracked down on https://t 3.2K views · 82 likes · 25 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026