There should be oversight of the government’s use of “nudges,” according to this study released by the MEI. “At the moment, Canada has no structure in place for the oversight of the use of behavioural science by governments to direct the choices of citizens,” explains Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, senior economist at the MEI and author of the study.

Quoi qu’en disent nos élus, les dirigeants des chaînes d’alimentation ne sont pas en soi responsables de l’inflation. La situation est encore plus complexe, et elle mérite qu’on s’y attarde réellement plutôt que de se livrer en spectacle.

Income tax increases since 2015 have impeded the creation of thousands of businesses, shows this MEI study. Federal revenues collected by Ottawa’s most recent tax hike are equivalent to the entirety of production subsidies promised to Volkswagen and Stellantis.

Second Street’s Colin Craig is joined by Nadeem Esmail, from The Fraser Institute, and Emmanuel Faubert, from the Montreal Economic Institute, to discuss solutions to Canada’s struggling healthcare system.

Second Street’s Colin Craig is joined by Nadeem Esmail, from The Fraser Institute, and Emmanuel Faubert, from the Montreal Economic Institute, to discuss solutions to Canada’s struggling healthcare system.

While reconciliation has been a prominent theme in the federal government’s policy agenda for years, the promise of economic reconciliation has only recently entered the discourse.

Greater flexibility in the hiring and firing of teachers would substantially improve the quality of education in Quebec, notes this MEI study. Out of 111,000 Quebec teachers, four were fired for incompetence over the past five years.

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As long as we do not address this problem of our uncompetitive fiscal and regulatory environment, we will risk seeing our living standards stagnate, both relative to the rest of the world and maybe even in absolute terms.

Economic reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations goes hand in hand with natural resource development, but such development is too often blocked by the federal government, according to this study published by the MEI.