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Internal Trade Provincial Leadership Index – 2021 Edition
With the vaccine rollout in full swing, the public’s attention is increasingly focused on economic recovery. The authors of this Research Paper propose a very simple solution: a true free trade agreement among the Canadian provinces. This publication includes among other things a ranking of the provinces and territories according to their openness to internal trade. Alberta takes first place, and Quebec comes in last.
6-minute read
Entrepreneurs Stepped Up in Response to COVID-19
For over a year now, the spotlight has been on governments and the actions they have taken in the context of the pandemic, sometimes obscuring the great contribution of entrepreneurs in maintaining a certain quality of life for Canadians in these difficult times. This publication lifts the veil on the efforts made by entrepreneurs to reinvent themselves, pick up the pace, and help us meet this challenge.
5-minute read
Solutions to Help Restaurateurs
The physical distancing measures in effect to slow the propagation of the coronavirus are hitting the restaurant industry hard. An MEI publication proposes solutions to help the sector.
3-minute read
COVID-19 : Le génie humain à l’oeuvre
Malgré la situation difficile que nous vivons tous, plusieurs initiatives et réactions de nos concitoyens et ailleurs dans le monde peuvent nous rendre fiers.
4-minute read
To save money and lives, make drug approval easier
Canadians wait 630 more days than Americans before new drugs are approved and another 473 before public plans list them.
4-minute read
Tear down these walls! Canada could finally become the free-trading dynamo envisioned in 1867
The best way for liberalization to happen is for a province or territory to act unilaterally to end its own barriers.
4-minute read
Internal Trade Provincial Leadership Index
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.
4-minute read
The CRTC needs to get out of the way
The CRTC must proactively rescind the telecom exception and reintegrate the sector under the general competition regime.
8-minute read
Permissionless Innovation: For an End to the Presumption of Regulation in Telecommunications
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.
4-minute read
Nobel de la paix pour le Premier ministre éthiopien Abiy Ahmed : l’Afrique montre la voie
Ethiopia is turning to the free market economy.