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When it comes to tax cuts, remember it’s your money, not Ottawa’s
Most parties promise tax cuts, which is good. But analysis focuses on the ‘cost’ to Ottawa. Keeping your money is not a cost.

4-minute read
Finally, a money incentive for Alberta hospitals to pick up the pace on surgery
As long as appropriate guardrails are in place, patients are better off in hospitals where financial considerations serve as an incentive to treat more of them, rather than a limitation.

5-minute read
Pour un régime minceur de l’État québécois
Le secteur public ne cesse de croître alors que le Québec fait face à un déficit historique, ce qui appelle à une révision complète des dépenses.

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Canada’s Impact Assessment Act is a bureaucratic chokehold
While it is not solely responsible for our stagnation, the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) remains an emblematic example of Ottawa’s tendency to overregulate at the expense of Canadians’ living standards.

5-minute read
Bannir la médecine privée, une mauvaise idée
Enchaîner les médecins à un système défaillant qui épuise son personnel soignant ne réglera pas nos problèmes. On devrait plutôt miser sur la flexibilité, comme l’a fait le Danemark.

5-minute read
The politics of fearmongering will get us nowhere
Fundamental factors and the general course of the free world favour a return to normal for Canada-U.S. trade relations in the medium term.

14-minute read
Canadians must elbow out economic nationalism
Embracing economic nationalism will only make us poorer. If policymakers are serious about righting Canada’s growth trajectory, then a policy path of economic openness is the correct choice.

5-minute read
The seen and unseen harms of tariffs will upend US manufacturing
Frédéric Bastiat, the great French economist and satirist, wrote frequently about the fact that every economic measure has effects that are seen and effects that are not seen. Take President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, for instance.

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Budget Québec 2025: l’équilibre budgétaire remis aux calendes grecques
Le modèle québécois s’essouffle. On peut tous constater que l’État croule de lourdeur. Malheureusement, notre gouvernement préfère replacer les chaises sur le pont d’un vaisseau qui coule.

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In praise of cheaper goods
Whether we look at it as consumers of these goods, or as middle-class workers who transform them, low-cost goods have been the underpinning of American prosperity. Adding tariffs on them puts it all at risk on both sides of our shared border.