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The budget Quebecers needed
Legault government is revolutionizing how the province’s health care system is financed. For patients, this is cause for celebration.

5-minute read
Le budget dont les Québécois avaient besoin
Dans l’ensemble, le gouvernement a déposé le budget dont les Québécois et Québécoises avaient besoin. Pour les contribuables les plus taxés du continent, c’est un peu de répit bien nécessaire qui leur est offert.

4-minute read
Mini-hospitals will complement Quebec’s health system, not erode it
Independent facilities, run by entrepreneurs, have an incentive to innovate and a greater capacity to do so given the smaller size of their organizations.

4-minute read
Confisquer moins d’argent aux Québécois et Québécoises est une bonne idée
Soyez fiers, disent-ils: Québécois, votre gouvernement vous coûte plus cher que partout ailleurs sur le continent!

5-minute read
Coût des logements – La Ville de Montréal doit se regarder dans le miroir
Quelle que soit la noblesse des intentions de la Ville, le règlement «20-20-20» est bien loin «d’assurer une meilleure offre de logements abordables», l’objectif pourtant souhaité.

4-minute read
City of Montreal partly to blame for lack of affordable housing
With taxes, fees, and various regulations, the municipal government apparatus substantially increases the risk and the price developers must pay to build.

4-minute read
Canadian emission targets miss the forest for the trees
If Canada were to be carbon neutral tomorrow, it would take China only 21 days to ensure our current annual emissions were put back into the atmosphere.

4-minute read
The inactivity trap: Would you leave welfare for $4.61/hr?
Would you take a job for $4.61 an hour? Probably not. But that’s the choice many Quebecers receiving social assistance are offered.

4-minute read
To alleviate Quebec’s labour shortage, boost productivity
Our provincial and local governments have not managed to create an environment conducive to investment in productive physical capital.

5-minute read
Medicine shouldn’t just be cheap; it should be accessible
The new guidelines the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board will use to determine whether the price of a new medication is acceptable or too high are so unclear that both pharmaceutical companies and patients’ rights groups are united in their criticism of them.