Forcer la dépossession d’un individu, même en échange d’une indemnité financière intéressante, devrait être une procédure exceptionnelle utilisée en dernier recours seulement.

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.

In order to score easy points with an electoral coalition, Ottawa is ready to risk a decline in the quality of our transportation infrastructure.

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

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.

May 29, 2023 | 7 min. 24 sec. | The Elias Makos Show (CJAD-AM) Interview with Gabriel Giguère, Public Policy Analyst at […]

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.

Expropriation should never be easy. Quebec, though, is trying to streamline this procedure and reduce its costs for municipalities or for its own government agencies by tabling a bill to amend the Expropriation Act.

In the telecommunications sector, fixed and mobile broadband networks have facilitated positive environmental changes and helped reduce emissions, but the public discourse tends to be centered on the cost of services.

The private sector’s contribution to the reduction of GHG emissions is too often overlooked. In this publication by the MEI, Senior Policy Analyst Krystle Wittevrongel shines a light on the emission reductions generated by the telecommunications industry.