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Encouraging Entrepreneurship: Billions of Dollars of Subsidies or Tax Cuts?

Income tax increases since 2015 have impeded the creation of thousands of businesses, shows this MEI study. Federal revenues collected by Ottawa’s most recent tax hike are equivalent to the entirety of production subsidies promised…

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Greater Flexibility in Hiring and Firing Teachers Improves Quality of Education

Greater flexibility in the hiring and firing of teachers would substantially improve the quality of education in Quebec, notes this MEI study. Out of 111,000 Quebec teachers, four were fired for incompetence over the past…

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Canada’s and Quebec’s Energy Needs – Ipsos poll commissioned by the MEI

The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) commissioned Ipsos to poll Canadians on their opinions regarding various issues related to energy.

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MEI in the Media

Energy Policies

Calgary Herald, p. A13

Natural resource development is economic reconciliation

While reconciliation has been a prominent theme in the federal government’s policy agenda for years,…
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Op-eds

Financial Post, p. FP8

We need investment, not subsidies, to get productivity growing

As long as we do not address this problem of our uncompetitive fiscal and regulatory…
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Health Care

Troy Media, p. web

Why family doctors are leaving the Quebec healthcare system

Why are more Quebec family doctors leaving the government-run health system? Red tape and waiting…
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The State of the Boreal Forest Harvest

Setting the record straight on mistaken information about the forest harvest in Canada.

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