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Regulating Canada’s Energy Industry Out of Existence Won’t Do Anything for Climate Change
More layers of red tape piled onto Canada’s energy industry are not likely to reduce emissions.

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Mayors Need to Shoulder Their Responsibilities
Certain mayors would have us believe that everyone, except them, should share the blame for the increase in housing prices.

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Price Inflation: Ottawa Must Do Its Part
Helping, or at least, not harming. Ottawa should take inspiration from this principle of medicine with regard to the Bank of Canada’s fight against inflation.

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L’expropriation à rabais: la pratique dont le ministère ne vous parlera pas
Forcer la dépossession d’un individu, même en échange d’une indemnité financière intéressante, devrait être une procédure exceptionnelle utilisée en dernier recours seulement.

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Hydro-Québec: Independent Suppliers to the Rescue!
Over the coming years, Hydro-Québec is expected to have more and more difficulty meeting Quebecers’ demand for energy. As Energy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon admits, the crown corporation and the government can’t do it all at the moment.

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Ottawa’s extension of forced interswitching is no way to run the railways
In order to score easy points with an electoral coalition, Ottawa is ready to risk a decline in the quality of our transportation infrastructure.

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Les dépossédés de l’État méritent une juste compensation
Exproprier ne devrait jamais être facile. Déposséder un citoyen ou une citoyenne de ses avoirs — même avec compensation — doit demeurer une procédure d’exception.

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Opening Up the Construction Trades Is a Must
The scarcity of labour is leading to longer delays and rising costs for construction projects. Faced with this situation, the minister of labour signalled his wish to reform the industry in order to reduce the pressure from this lack of workers.

MEI – Why Bill 22 is a step in the wrong direction for property rights – Gabriel Giguère
May 29, 2023 | 7 min. 24 sec. | The Elias Makos Show (CJAD-AM) Interview with Gabriel Giguère, Public Policy Analyst at […]

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Bill 22 on expropriation: A step backward for property rights according to the MEI
Montreal, May 25, 2023 – The new Act respecting expropriation proposed by the Quebec government constitutes a big step backward for property rights in Quebec, says the Montreal Economic Institute following the tabling of Bill 22.