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REACTION: Alberta’s embrace of activity-based funding is great news for patients, MEI says
CALGARY, AB, April 7, 2025 – Alberta’s move to fund acute care services through activity-based funding follows best practices internationally, points out an MEI researcher following an announcement made by Premier Danielle Smith earlier today.
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Quebec Budget: A record deficit and ever more subsidies, laments the MEI
Quebec, March 25, 2025 – The Legault government’s financial management plays fast and loose, warns an MEI researcher in response to the 2025-2026 budget tabled earlier today by Finance Minister Eric Girard.
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Energy East and GNL Québec could have redirected $38.4 billion worth of energy products per year to markets other than the United States, according to the MEI
Montreal, March 20, 2025 — The construction of pipelines between Eastern and Western Canada would have helped diversify Canadian export markets and should be considered anew in the context of the U.S. tariff threats, says the MEI in a Viewpoint published this morning.
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Federal income tax: MEI recommends abolishing the second tax bracket to help middle-class workers
Montreal, March 13, 2025 — Eliminating the second tax bracket and replacing it with an extended first bracket would help more than 8.5 million middle-class Canadians, according to an economic note published this morning by the MEI.
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REACTION: Quebec is right to emulate Sweden’s health care guarantee, says MEI
Montreal, March 12, 2025 — By offering to reimburse Quebecers for treatment by private specialists when delays in the public healthcare system are too long, the Quebec government would improve access to health care, says an MEI researcher in response to a report by Radio-Canada this morning.
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REACTION: Emissions cap not worth the job and economic losses, MEI says
Montreal, March 12, 2025 – The federal oil and gas emissions cap will cost tens of thousands of well-paid jobs for very little environmental impact, points out an MEI researcher in response to the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s analysis published this morning.
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Tariffs: MEI recommends Quebec consider other solutions before subsidies
Montreal, March 5, 2025 – The Quebec government should respond to U.S. tariffs by rethinking regulations, such as those creating interprovincial trade barriers, and by re-evaluating its tax burden, counsels an MEI researcher this morning.
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Tariffs: a better response to U.S. tariff threats would be to drop Canada’s trade barriers with the whole world, says the MEI
Montreal, March 3, 2025 – Unilateral reduction of all barriers to trade with the rest of the world would strengthen Canada’s economy in the context of the U.S. tariff threats, recommends the MEI in a Viewpoint published this morning.
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Alberta Budget: Tax relief is the right approach amidst economic uncertainty, MEI says
Edmonton, February 27, 2025 – The government of Alberta is making the right call by lowering taxes and leaving more money in Albertans’ pockets amidst U.S. tariff threats, according to an MEI researcher reacting to today’s budget.
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Forced adoption of electric vehicles will be very costly for all Canadians, according to the MEI
Montreal, February 25, 2025 – The federal government’s decision to ban the purchase of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 will be very expensive for Canadian households and for governments, asserts an Economic Note published by the MEI this morning.