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Quebec Budget: Unsustainable Spending Growth
On Tuesday, March 22, the Quebec government tabled its 2022-2023 provincial budget. In this publication, we note the significant growth in portfolio spending in recent decades, taking into account the newly-released numbers, and we use different scenarios to illustrate the magnitude of this increase.
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Liberté d’expression : la censure doit cesser
Montréal, le 29 septembre 2021 – Ce matin, de nouvelles données publiées par La Presse sont venues confirmer un constat pour le moins inquiétant : une majorité de professeurs d’université pratiquent l’autocensure. Nos chercheurs à l’Institut économique de Montréal ont souhaité chiffrer les pertes économiques associées à une diminution de la liberté d’expression au Québec.
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Renforcer nos universités et aider nos régions
Il n’y a rien de plus noble que de rendre l’éducation supérieure accessible à un plus grand nombre d’individus, peu importe leur emplacement géographique.
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How Can Quebec Become a Leader in Distance Learning?
The health measures adopted since the spring of 2020 have forced students to rediscover the pleasures of distance learning. Now that the necessary technological infrastructure is in place, is it feasible for Quebec universities to try to attract a larger international clientele? This publication examines how our universities could seize this new opportunity.
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Send Money and Power to Classrooms, Not School Boards
If replacing school boards with service centres will give schools more of the autonomy they need to do the best job they can, and give more power to parents and students, then it’s the right move for both anglophone and francophone communities.
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Monopoly school systems make even less sense now
Provincial governments in Ontario and across Canada should follow the example of states in the U.S. that have in the past year delivered the wider access to school choice that families want for their children.
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Les entrepreneurs du privé à la rescousse de nos écoles
Il est inconcevable que dans une province relativement riche comme la nôtre, nos enfants aient à subir les coûts d’une gestion trop centralisée et bureaucratique.
IEDM – Les machines vont-elles nous voler nos emplois ? – Gaël Campan
October 30, 2019 | 11 min. | Dutrizac (QUB Radio) Interview (in French) with Gaël Campan, Senior Associate Researcher at the MEI, […]
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Intelligence artificielle: des emplois meilleurs et plus nombreux
The rapid development and deployment of AI is an opportunity.
IEDM – Pour ou contre l’abolition des commission scolaires? – Germain Belzile
Debate (in French) with Germain Belzile, Senior Associate Researcher at the MEI, about the abolition of school boards by the Quebec government. Broadcast on October 1st, 2019, on the LCN Network.