October 6, 2023 | 12 min. 23 sec. | Le café show (ICI Radio-Canada) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist […]
We have controls over taxes, subsidies and rules but nothing requiring governments to be transparent about mind games.
There should be oversight of the government’s use of “nudges,” according to this study released by the MEI. “At the moment, Canada has no structure in place for the oversight of the use of behavioural science by governments to direct the choices of citizens,” explains Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, senior economist at the MEI and author of the study.
The federal government’s gross debt has increased by 50% since the start of the Trudeau government’s first mandate, shows an Economic Note published by the Montreal Economic Institute.
Our provincial and local governments have not managed to create an environment conducive to investment in productive physical capital.
In order to alleviate the lack of labour, the Quebec government should lower corporate taxes, which would stimulate investment in productivity, according to this study published by the Montreal Economic Institute.
The fiscal loss from increasing the federal income tax rate from 33 to 25 percent is estimated at $212 million a year.
Au lieu de chercher à augmenter le fardeau fiscal des riches simplement parce qu’ils sont riches, le gouvernement du Canada devrait d’abord considérer tous les tenants et aboutissants des mesures qu’il envisage.
Proposals to increase taxes on the rich resurface often in the news. MEI researchers conclude in this study that, however the term “rich” is defined, this selective taxation does not pay, due to its longer-term indirect effects. By penalizing those who create wealth, this gives rise to a number of adverse effects that threaten the prosperity of all Canadians.
September 7, 2022 | 10 min. 19 sec. | Yasmine Abdelfadel (QUB Radio) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at […]
The prospective rate represents a very different way of looking at inflation, one that turns out to be far more reflective of Canadians’ lived experience.
Le taux prospectif représente une façon bien différente d’aborder l’inflation et s’avère beaucoup plus représentatif du vécu des Canadiens.
For over a year now, statistics have shown an unusual rise in the general price level as calculated by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The highest seen in 40 years, this increase has fuelled public debate as well as anxiety among Canadians. Researchers at the MEI believe that the actual deterioration in purchasing power is much more pronounced than the official rate would indicate, and they challenge the validity of the metrics employed by Statistics Canada which in their view do not reflect the true inflationary pressure experienced since the beginning of this year.
July 13, 2022 | 15 min. 31 sec. | Droit devant (106,9 FM) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at […]
July 8, 2022 | 6 min. | En direct (ICI Radio-Canada) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at the MEI, […]
Lors du récent congrès du Parti québécois, Pauline Marois a dressé un bilan positif de sa première année de gouvernance et a déclaré: « Avec le Parti québécois, le Québec, il va mieux ». Dans la même veine, Jean-François Lisée affirmait récemment: « Le Québec est économiquement plus solide que jamais ».
The economic situation in Québec.
Tourism during "Printemps érable."
Municipal elections in Montreal.
Quebec's "Priorité emploi" Economic policy.
The Quebec economic situation.
Scandals in the United States.
Quebec's new wind turbine projects.
The province's economic performance.
Extolling the virtues of sovereignty.
The tax burden of the rich.
The financial crisis in Cyprus.
The financial crisis in Cyprus.
The ineffectiveness of a soda tax.
Employment Insurance reform.
The Quebec Summit on Higher Education.
The promotion of Quebec's sovereignty.
New projects announced by the Marois government.
Governance and financing of Quebec universities.
Higher Education Summit organized by Quebec.
January 10, 2013 | 20 min. 45 sec. | Maurais Live (Radio X Quebec) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist […]
New Year's political wishes.
Reasons to celebrate at the dawn of 2013.
The use of French in the workplace.
Too much taxes is counterproductive.
Tabling of 2012-2013 budget by the Marois government.
Column on fixed book price.
The concept of food sovereignty.
Food inflation and our purchasing power.
The defense of the French language.
Lino Zambito's revelations before the Charbonneau Commission.
Barack Obama's economic policies are devastating.
The effects of a tax increase for the rich.
The exploration and exploitation of shale gas in Quebec.
The under-representation of women in politics.
Fiscal measures may hinder economic growth.
Letter to the new Prime Minister of Quebec.
Do rich people pay enough taxes in Quebec?
The 2012 Quebec election campaign.
James Lovelock and the environment.
The "Dutch disease" theory and oil production.
The causes of social crisis.
Quebec hits tobacco industry with lawsuit.
Revenu Québec advertising campaign to counter tax evasion.
Students' mobilization and their demands.
The demands of the student movement.
What we teach is largely responsible for the student conflict.
The minimum wage increase.
The need to protect the environment versus the green propaganda.
April 19, 2012 | 9 min. | L’informateur (KYK 95.7 Radio X) Interview with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at the Monreal Economic […]
The impact of subsidized childcare services.
The devaluation of education diplomas.
The monitoring of the population with information technologies.
The Taxation Act and its multitude of exemptions, deductions and benefits.
The 2012-2013 Bachand budget.
Budget 2012-2013: Letter to Minister of Finance of Quebec.
In the name of public safety, two coroners recommend the removal of cough syrups from tablets.
Tax the rich to fund the projects of the State.
The financing of the Quebec Pension Plan.
Capitalism is the best economic system that humanity has ever known.
The issue of global warming.
The province of Quebec's economic performance.
The aging of the population.
Economic predictions for 2012.
Christmas is not what it used to be.
The issue of French at work.
The gap between rich and poor.
Part II of the environmental scandal called Climategate.
Quebec's Strategy for Entrepreneurship.
Reflections on the Quebec model.
Gloomy predictions about the future of humanity.
Errors, half truths and lies surrounding the issue of global warming.
The Occupy Wall Street movement.
The "Occupy Wall Street" movement.
The concept of so-called "rights."
The Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States.
October 3, 2011 | 25 min. | Medium Large (Radio-Canada) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at the MEI, on the […]
Taxing junk food to prevent and fight obesity.
The stimulus packages of Keynesian tradition.
It is universally acknowledged that a quality education system has a profound influence on economic prosperity. In the long run, only a trained and productive population can improve its quality of life in a sustained manner. It is after all in order to promote access to education that the Quebec Department of Education was established in 1964. Today, this Department has an annual budget of $15.5 billion, the equivalent of 25% of Quebec government program spending.
The State of the Union address.
Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO.
The "national question" is back in the news.
Emergency rooms overcrowding.
The economic situation in the United States.
Overpopulation and the environment.
Overpopulation and the environment.
The maritime blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.
June 29, 2011 | 21 min. 55 sec. | Maurais Live (Radio X) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at […]
June 27, 2011 | 24 min. 55 sec. | Dupont le midi (Radio X) Interview with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at the […]
The economic situation of the United States.
Soaring food prices and the environment.
The teaching of religion in Quebec's daycare.
The left, the right, and statism.
The liberalization of the Canadian postal sector.
Government subsidies to culture.
Government subsidies to culture.
Government subsidies to culture.
The financing of electoral promises.
Relations between unions and political parties.
À chaque élection, il y a des incontournables. Le débat des chefs et l’avalanche de promesses en sont des exemples.
The inflationary consequences of the FED’s policies.
The 2011 federal electoral campaign.
The students’ collectivist discourse.
The financing of unions’ political activities.
The Quebec government is asking us to plan for our retirement.
The Fed’s irresponsible monetary policy.
The Quebec government is asking us to plan for our retirement.
Tax privileges for Quebec labour unions.
The Krach documentary, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Traffic tickets and the tax burden people in Quebec are forced to bear.
Unions and the Labour Code.
The lack of young manpower in agriculture.
The CSN president and the right movement.
Looking forward to the year 2011.
A free trade agreement with the European Union and India.
The tax burden people in Quebec are forced to bear.
December 9, 2010 | 14 min. 30 sec. | Le show du matin (CHOI-FM) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at the […]
The City of Montreal’s latest budget.
The current financial problems of Ireland.
Climategate, one year later.
The financial crisis in the United States and in the rest of the world.
The financial crisis and stimulus packages.
Midterm elections in the United States.
The financial crisis in the United States.
The World March of Women.
The financial crisis and stimulus packages.
Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution.
L’événement «En ville sans ma voiture».
The financial crisis and stimulus packages.
Publication of an Economic Note on the improvement of the efficiency of Quebec’s health care system.
Publication of an Economic Note on the improvement of the efficiency of Quebec’s health care system.
The Quebec health care system has long been a target of criticism. Since the mid-1970s, newspapers have been reporting on staff shortages, emergency room overcrowding, challenges in finding family doctors, waiting lists that keep getting longer, and so on. Optimal use of resources is vital if we wish to reduce waiting times and provide better and faster service to patients. Technological innovations, including telemedicine, are a way of improving the efficiency of the health care system and increasing the choices offered to patients. Sadly, the current government monopoly in the health care sector eliminates most natural incentives to innovate and make optimal use of resources.
The cost of the olympic stadium.
The origins of Labour Day.
Solutions to the economic crisis.
The causes of the economic crisis.
Is there an economic recovery in the United States?
The American senate adopts Obama’s financial reform.
Climategate: the report is out.
The financial crisis and stimulus packages.
Public sector negotiations.
Barack Obama’s environmental program.
Washington and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The Keynesian ideology in times of crisis.
Special fund created to save the euro.
Greece’s financial situation.
The price of houses goes up in the country.
The state of public finances and our fiscal burden.
The flat tax concept and its merits.
Quebecers and income taxes.
Reaction to the 2010-2011 provincial budget.
Teaching religion in Quebec schools.
The reforms carried out in Sweden.
Public-sector negotiations.
Quebec’s finances plunge into the red.
Public-sector negotiations.
A portrait of Che Guevara.
The green movement has been discredited.
Are state employees well paid?
Quebec must resolve its deficit and repay its debt.
January 22, 2010 | 17 min. 15 sec. | Le Retour (FM93) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at the […]
How to get rid of poverty in Haiti.
Do the activities of Parliament affect the state of the nation’s economy?
A portrait of Quebec’s public finances.
The spectacular progress realized by humans with the passing of the centuries.
The Boycott Israel Apartheid Campaign.
Climategate: a bomb shakes the world scientific community.
Climategate: a bomb shakes the world scientific community.
Climategate: a bomb shakes the world scientific community.
Cut spendings to reduce the deficits.
Collectivism/Communism, a horror story.
The financial crisis in the United States and in the rest of the world.
Cut spendings to reduce the deficits.
The different faces of corruption.
Are we witnessing an economic recovery?
Is water a commercial good or a common resource?
Tariffs and taxes versus a balanced budget.
Should governments come to the aid of bankrupted companies?
The debate over global warming is not over.
Canada launches an unprecedented offensive against tax havens.
Public finances: the situation in Quebec.
Autos ‘clunkers’ plans are economically and environmentally absurd.
The financing of Quebec’s healthcare system.
The financing of Quebec’s health care system.
The effects of governments’ stimulus packages.
Governments looking into regulating credit houses.
Adoption of the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill in the US.
The world financial crisis and its causes.
The world financial crisis and its causes.
The role of deregulation in the economic crisis.
The president of the United States’ popularity.
The Quartier des spectacles project in Montreal.
The world financial crisis and our governments’ response.
The war on poverty and school drop outs.
The world financial crisis and the bosses’ salaries.
The American Tea Parties phenomenon.
General Motors facing bankruptcy in the US.
Should we fear deflation?
The financial crisis in the United States and Obama’s stimulus packages.
The world financial crisis and its causes.
The world financial crisis and our governments’ response.
The world financial crisis and governments’ response.
The financial crisis in the United States and Obama’s stimulus package.
The financial crisis in the United States and Obama’s stimulus packages.
How to deal with high school dropout rate in Québec.
The Régie des rentes du Québec and the Madoff Affair.
Barack Obama and protectionism.
Reactions to the Harper government Budget 2009.
The world financial crisis and Ottawa’s response.
Is there really a consensus about global warming?
The cost of gas at the pump: who is responsible?
Tobacco taxes and contraband cigarettes.
Analysis of data from the 2006 Census on Canadians’ earnings and income.
Remstar wishes to close the TQS newsroom.
Politicians and the notion of success.
The Montmarquette Report on fees for public services.
What is the best way to save energy?
Revenu Québec teaches taxation issues to children using a tale.
The regulated maple syrup market in Quebec.
Comparison between Québec and Alberta.
UQAM’s Chaire d’études socio-économiques publishes a study on the taxes paid by Canadian businesses.
How to help the manufacturing sector of Quebec’s resource regions?
Is it necessary to help the manufacturing sector’s workers?
Reaction to the Castonguay report on health care financing.
Reaction to an article titled «Pour une autre vision de l’économie».
The poverty that is so widespread in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, is one of our era’s greatest challenges. A billion people continue to survive on less than a dollar a day and 30,000 children die each day of diseases or malnutrition. Colonialism and slavery clearly left their mark, but how can they be held responsible for the extreme poverty of sub-Saharan Africa when places such as Hong Kong and Singapore prove that it is possible to achieve real economic miracles despite a colonial past?
The cost of milk regulation in Quebec.
The cost of milk regulation in Quebec.
The gradual erosion of our individual rights.
The real estate crisis in the United States and the specter of a recession.
Advertising campaign against the participation of the private sector in Quebec’s health care system.
Attempt to understand the paradoxes of our daily lives.
Things are getting better all the time.
What should be the place of religion in Quebec schools?
The rise of the Canadian dollar and its consequences.
The cost of gas at the pump: who is responsible?
The rise of the Canadian dollar.
The debate over the freeze on university tuition fees in Quebec.
The debate over the future of school boards.
The financing of Quebec’s infrastructures.
The Johnson Commission Report made public.
The opposition’s stand on the speech from the Throne.
The questioning of the Quebec model.
The debate over minimum wage.
Obesity: Who is responsible?
Obesity: Who is responsible?
the debate over the privatization of Hydro-Québec.
The debate over the privatization of Hydro-Québec.
The return of the report card and class averages.
Free market means freedom to choose.
Should we boycott products made in China?
The consequences of globalization.
The consequences of protectionism on consumers.
The cost of the Johnson Commission for Quebecers.
Publicity campaign by the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Live Earth and the ecological menace.
Some of the myths surrounding the American health care system.
The production of ethanol and its outcomes.
The situation with emergency rooms in Quebec.
The situation with emergency rooms in Quebec.
Economic fall-outs: are they for real?
Charest government Budget 2007: The opposition’s reactions.
The reasons behind cigarette contraband.
Fast Food chains and obesity.
The price of gas at the pump.
the debate over global warming.
The debate over global warming.
The debate over global warming.
Elections 2007: results’ analysis.
The Jim Flaherty budget and equalization.
Elections 2007: politicians’ promises.
Elections 2007: politicians and the injection of public funds.
Elections 2007: politicians’ promises.
The Audet budget and tax reductions.
The reasonable accommodation debate.
How to improve the quality of education.
Alberta’s wealth Vs Quebec’s poverty.
Index of Economic Freedom’s 2007 Edition.
CROP public poll on Quebecers’ social generosity.
A resolution for 2007: to better understand some abnormalities.
The impact of institutional constraints on the labour market.
Is Christmas too commercial?
Publication of an Economic Note on the impact of institutional constraints on the labour market.
Rewriting the rules governing local phone competition.
The labour market is of fundamental importance in an economy, allocating human capital to its most productive uses. With the aim of protecting workers, however, governments have instituted various institutional constraints over the years, making this market less flexible. These rigidities have the effect of slowing job creation and pushing up unemployment. This is especially true of Quebec, with a labour market that is more highly regulated than elsewhere in North America – and with an unemployment rate that has consistently stood above the Canadian and American averages for the last 30 years.
L’Illusion tranquille, a documentary by Joanne Marcotte.
Stephen Harper’s motion recognizing Quebec as a nation.
Portrait of Economist Milton Friedman.
The 2006 Montreal Millennium Promise Conference.
Union pamphlet entitled Parlons politique! distributed to Cégeps students.
The cost of our politicians’ promises.
Léger Marketing opinion poll on the formation of new unions.
Are Quebeckers good workers?
The collapsing of Laval’s De La Concorde overpass.
The Percival-Molson Stadium expansion project.
The privatization of a part of the Mont-Orford park.
Why do students waste the education for which they paid?
Gas prices: why are they going down?
Le système de santé suédois.
Cuba’s health-care system.
The Council of Canadians says no the health-care privatization.
Frédéric Bastiat and his influence on the way I see things.
Economic growth and his impact on our quality of life.
The Quebec model VS. the Irish and the Swedish models.
The Swedish model VS. the Irish model.
The effects of the Swedish model.
Quebec’s high level of taxation and its effect.
The Quebec government wants to fight discrimination and racism.
Ethanol as an alternative source of energy?
The economic effects of business subsidies.
Addressing the issue of financial scandals.
Although subsidies are often criticized for their undesirable economic effects and for the way they discriminate in favour of particular sectors or firms, they maintain a strong presence in our economy. Governments not only seem incapable of trimming them but tend to invest in new forms of business assistance that are subtler and harder to evaluate, leaving them less open to reproach. The concept of subsidies includes not only direct dollar transfers but also other forms of aid that do not involve actual disbursements or that are considered as investment rather than spending. While disbursements are easy to measure, other types of subsidy are merely implicit, and precise data on their extent are often unavailable.
Debate between Chantal Harvard (TransFair Canada) and Nathalie Elgrably (MEI).
Reflexions on rent control and the Kyoto Protocol.
The census is Big Brother invading our privacy.
La Quinzaine du commerce équitable vient de prendre fin.
Minimum wage doesn’t help less qualified workers.
Does increasing minimum wage help the poor?
The costs of the Kyoto Protocol.
The role of taxes in the prices of gasoline.
Free market vs. state intervention.
Job security and its pernicious effects
La face cachée des politiques publiques examines various myth-filled areas of public policy such as health care, water management, globalization, agricultural subsidies, minimum wages and rent control. Readers will no doubt discover that some of their most deeply held convictions are little more than mirages that fail the test of economic logic.
Reactions to the 2006 provincial budget.
The multiples usages of water and the fact that it is free.
Should companies pay more taxes?
The cost of the welfare state.
Sweatshops in developing countries.
How to finance Quebec’s higher education?
The justifications for preserving a government monopoly on liquor sales in Quebec and the economic consequences of this policy.
Is it necessary to subsidize the development of projects such as the Massif in Charlevoix?
How to better understand the economic science.
How to analyse the results of the latest federal election in Quebec.
The issue of fiscal imbalance vs. tax payers.
Quebec’s Régie du logement suggests a rent increase of 0,9% for 2006.
Access to health care services in Canada.
Elections 2006: What do we expect from politicians?
Some predictions for the new year.
The world state at the end of 2005.
Is Wal-Mart a victim of its own success?
Promises made by politicians during electoral campaigns.
Quebec must increase competition in daycare sector.
The Paul Martin government and its budgetary surpluses.
Is globalization responsible for world poverty?
The concept of wage equity and union claims.
Quebec’s Education reform.
Publication of the Manifeste pour un Québec lucide.
Growth and economic liberty.
Research Paper on the justifications for preserving a government monopoly on liquor sales in Quebec and the economic consequences of this policy.
Quebec must lower taxes to increase revenues.
Who must we blame for the high cost of gasoline?
The value of job security.
