It is difficult for innovative solutions like nurse-led clinics to establish themselves in a bureaucratic health care system.

A number of Bay Street economists are urging the federal government to loosen its purse strings even more and run larger deficits than announced during the election campaign in order to “stimulate” the Canadian economy. This short-term perspective, however, fails to take into account several important considerations.

The inefficiency of running large deficits versus other ways of stimulating economic growth.

Quebec’s health care system continues to underperform compared to those in the rest of Canada and in other Commonwealth countries.

Comparing the performance of the provincial premiers in terms of government spending, corporate and individual taxes, and deficits and debt.

For several decades, Quebec has been one of the Canadian provinces in which public spending, the tax burden, and the debt level are the highest. One of the Quebec government’s main challenges is therefore to reverse these three trends in order to improve the dynamism of the province’s economy and to allow the population’s standard of living to rise. How does Quebec’s current government compare with the other provincial governments in achieving these goals?

Should Ottawa run large deficits in order to "stimulate" the Canadian economy?

The lessons to draw from the Danish model.

Is the responsibility for financing health care services being increasingly entrusted to private actors? Is there more private sector funding of care here than in Europe, as some maintain? Contrary to what certain commentators declare, we are not witnessing the gradual privatization of health care funding in Canada. This Economic Note demonstrates that this is a myth, at least when it comes to medically required care, which forms the core of our health care system.

The costs of a public drug insurance monopoly.