By one estimate, at any given moment, over one million Canadians — three per cent of the entire population — are waiting for a medical treatment.

Despite decades of animated public debates and the colossal sums spent—which keep on increasing—waiting times for Canadian patients continue to worsen, notes this study published by the MEI.

City officials who recommend opt-in rule are putting virtue-signalling ahead of the fate of small newspapers delivered with the ad flyers.

The best way for liberalization to happen is for a province or territory to act unilaterally to end its own barriers.

While Canada continues to negotiate free trade agreements with numerous countries, the provinces maintain obstacles to trade within our own borders. The MEI and the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) have listed them from best to worst in a ranking of Canadian provinces and territories by their openness to internal trade.

The rapid development and deployment of AI is an opportunity.

The CRTC must proactively rescind the telecom exception and reintegrate the sector under the general competition regime.

The question of the price of cellphone packages in Canada recently resurfaced again, this time during the election campaign. In the context of this debate, we too often forget that Canada has top quality telecommunications infrastructure, despite a regulatory framework that is very restrictive for companies in this sector.

October 30, 2019 | 11 min. | Dutrizac (QUB Radio) Interview (in French) with Gaël Campan, Senior Associate Researcher at the MEI, […]

The rapid development and deployment of AI is an opportunity.