The Montmarquette Report on fees for public services.

The Montmarquette Report on fees for public services.

The consequences of aging of the population and the impending mass retirement of the baby boom generation.

Competitive reforms that could improve performance of public transit in Montreal.

Onze idées pour changer le Québec : l’IEDM lance un débat ! L’IEDM propose aux Québécois une discussion autour d’idées de réformes qui pourraient être mises en vigueur d’ici cinq ans, la plupart d’entre elles d’ici 12 ou 24 mois. Ces idées ont été discutées dans le Journal de Montréal du 12 janvier 2008.

The financing of Quebec’s infrastructures.

The opposition’s stand on the speech from the Throne.

The questioning of the Quebec model.

Quebec’s road network, much of it built in the 1960s and 1970s, is aging quickly. Highways in Quebec have reached a critical point and will need to be rejuvenated in the coming years. Other countries have found ways of ensuring adequate, stable financing to maintain their roads. The Quebec government could look into new means of conducting road rehabilitation projects. International experience in public-private partnerships (PPP) can offer worthwhile solutions as the government struggles to maintain the road network adequately.

Quebec’s road network is in dismal condition. During a visit to Montreal in 2006, Simon Anholt, a specialist in the marketing of political entities, said jokingly that he thought he was in the wrong country and had landed in Kazakhstan, since the road from the airport to downtown Montreal was so bad. The collapse of the de la Concorde overpass and information uncovered by the Johnson Commission have shown, concretely and sadly, that this was more than just an impression.