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Artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it displaces – and better ones
The rapid development and deployment of AI is an opportunity.
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 une mobilité de la main-d’oeuvre – Luc Vallée
August 13, 2019 | 10 min. 46 sec. | Région zéro 8 (Ici Radio-Canada) Interview (in French) with Luc Vallée, Chief Operating […]
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Labour Shortage: What Is the Effect of Regulation?
We are constantly told that there is a shortage of labour in Canada. In 2018, the economy added 163,000 full-time jobs, and the unemployment rate fell to 5.6%, a historic low that can be qualified as full employment. The participation rate for people of prime working age, 25 to 54 years, is 87%. The winds are shifting on the labour market. Employers used to have the upper hand; now, it’s workers who have it.
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Les travailleurs de la Banque Laurentienne ont fait le bon choix
Technological changes and the banking sector.
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Salaire minimum : l’Ontario a bien fait d’annuler la hausse à 15$
Some of the effects of the minimum wage increase in the province of Ontario.
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An end to minimum-wage politics
Some of the effects of the minimum wage increase in the province of Ontario.
IEDM – Salaire minimum à 14$: les impacts en Ontario – Alexandre Moreau
November 20, 2018 | 15 min. 32 sec. | Midi Pile (CKYK-FM) Interview (in French) with Alexandre Moreau, Public Policy Analyst at […]
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The Minimum Wage: Ontario Was Right to Cancel the Hike to $15
Many politicians and interest groups advocate a rapid increase in the minimum wage in the name of social justice. Yet this ignores the results of past experiments. Ontario’s new Minister of Labour, Laurie Scott, pushed back by cancelling the increase to $15 planned for January 2019, and by stating that the minimum wage should be determined “by economics, not politics.” Subsequent increases will be set based on the annual change in the cost of living. This is a reasonable compromise, which will avoid further harming workers at the bottom of the ladder, and more specifically the young.