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Manning and Harris call for downsizing of government; Reduced taxes and spending key to economic freedom
Montreal, November 20, 2006 – As Ottawa readies its economic update for release this week, now is the ideal time to move forward on reducing spending, cutting taxes and eliminating provincial trade barriers, Preston Manning and Mike Harris say in a new policy paper released today, Building Prosperity in a Canada Strong and Free.
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Article erroné du magazine Perspectives CSN: la CSN présente ses excuses à l’Institut économique de Montréal
Montreal, November 3, 2006 – Suite à la parution, dans la livraison d’octobre du magazine Perspectives CSN (organe officiel de la Confédération des syndicats nationaux, tiré à 27 000 exemplaires), d’un article affirmant – erronément il va sans dire – que l’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM) aurait réalisé une étude prônant l’esclavagisme, la CSN reconnaît avoir commis une erreur et offre ses excuses à l’IEDM.
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Grading Quebec’s secondary schools – Montreal Economic Institute and Fraser Institute publish seventh annual Report Card
Montreal, October 26, 2006 – The Montreal Economic Institute and The Fraser Institute today released the Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools: 2006 Edition, the only publicly available, independent measurement of 458 of Quebec’s public and private, French and English, secondary schools.
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$7 daycare – The Montreal Economic Institute urges solutions that are fair to everyone
Montreal, October 19, 2006 – Concepts of universality and equity that inspired the creation of the $7 daycare system nearly a decade ago have gone missing and would be served better by other family policies, says an Economic Note published today by the Montreal Economic Institute.
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Quebecers champion private health care according to a Leger Marketing/Montreal Economic Institute poll
Montreal, October 16, 2006 – A Leger Marketing poll sponsored by the Montreal Economic Institute reveals that Quebecers are significantly more favourable than the average Canadian to the emergence of a private health care system parallel to the current universal public system.
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Paul Daniel Muller becomes president of the Montreal Economic Institute
Montreal, September 11, 2006 – The chair of the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), Mr. Adrien D. Pouliot, is pleased to announce that the board of directors has appointed Paul Daniel Muller president of the economic research and educational institute.
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Tax relief and government structures: the Montreal Economic Institute finds the record of the Charest government “modest and ambiguous”
Montreal, September 7, 2006 – More than three years after the election that brought it to power, has the Quebec Liberal Party kept its promises to cut personal taxes and “re-engineer” the Quebec government? In an Economic Note published today, Tasha Kheiriddin, vice-president of the Montreal Economic Institute, draws up a summary of the results.
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L’Institut économique de Montréal publie une liste exhaustive des impôts payés par les Québécois
Montreal, September 5, 2006 – Est-il possible de dresser une liste de tous les impôts payés par les Québécois? L’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM) a tenté l’exercice à la demande de l’émission Dutrizac de TQS qui a dévoilé le document hier soir, à la première de l’émission.
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New interactive version of the annual Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools unveiled today in Montreal
Montreal, August 24, 2006 – The Fraser Institute today introduced a new interactive, web-based version of the popular Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools. The Bulletin interactif des écoles secondaires du Québec was launched in conjunction with the Montreal Economic Institute and L’actualité magazine at a Montreal event hosted by L’actualité.
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Canada-Europe open skies agreement: Ottawa should initiate talks, says former Air Canada CEO Pierre Jeanniot
Montreal, June 27, 2006 – Given the apparent impasse in open skies negotiations between Europe and the United States, Canada should take the lead and stimulate Europe’s interest in a Canada-European Union agreement modeled on the European proposal to the U.S.