Conference presented by Sally C. Pipes, President and CEO of the San Francisco Pacific Research Institute.

Launch of the Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools, 2000 Edition.

Conference on the future of health care financing and delivery in Quebec.

Conference on interprovincial trade barriers and their effects on the Canadian economy.

Luncheon speech on the sources of Irish economic growth with John Bruton, former Prime Minister of Ireland and current Leader of the Official Opposition.

Launch of a book co-authored by Filip Palda and Michel Boucher entitled Ici le peuple gouverne. Pour une réforme de la démocratie.

Breakfast meeting on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth with Robert Lawson, George H. Moor Chair in Business & Economics at Columbus’ Capital University and Director of Fiscal Policy Studies for the Buckeye Institute in Ohio.

Day-long seminar on public policy in Canada presented by the MEI and the Fraser Institute.

Breakfast meeting on the lessons which could be drawn from reforms recently undertaken in the education systems of England and the United States with Réjean Breton, Professor of Labour Law at Laval University.

Luncheon on the reforming of Indianapolis with Stephen Goldsmith, Mayor of Indianapolis.