Speech presented by Michel Kelly-Gagnon, Executive Director of the Montreal Economic Institute, at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel as part of the Round Table on interprovincial commerce organized by the Internal Trade Secretariat.

Presentation of a mémoire by Dr. Edwin Coffey, associate researcher with the MEI and co-author of Universal Private Choice, and Michel Kelly-Gagnon, Executive Director of the Montreal Economic Institute, before the Commission d’étude sur les services de santé et les services sociaux (Clair Commission).

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

Presentation on the proposed North American Free Trade zone before the National Assembly’s Commission sur les institutions.

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.