The end of Quebec’s electricity surplus is fast approaching, but the solutions proposed by the government are either too little or too late, concludes this study published by the MEI. “Hydro-Québec is heading towards a shortage of both energy and power as early as 2027, which complicates the problem,” says Gabriel Giguère, public policy analyst at the MEI and author of the study.

By working, or working more, social assistance recipients lose a large portion of each new dollar they earn — to taxes, reduced income support and withdrawal of other in-kind benefits.

The Canada Workers Benefit—in its current form—fails to incentivize full-time work for low-income Canadians, according to this Economic Note published by the Montreal Economic Institute.

Brief submitted (in French only) by the MEI as part of the 2024 pre-budget consultations held by the City of Montreal.

Les décisions de la Ville de Montréal et de l’administration Plante jouent un rôle prépondérant dans les prix élevés du logement que l’on voit aujourd’hui.

Montreal, March 29, 2023 – The creation of the Santé Québec agency will reduce the autonomy of facilities and do nothing to keep nurses from leaving the profession, warns the Montreal Economic Institute following the tabling of Quebec’s Bill 15 on health care.

Independent facilities, run by entrepreneurs, have an incentive to innovate and a greater capacity to do so given the smaller size of their organizations.

The median length of stay for a patient in an ER in Quebec was 5 hours and 11 minutes last year, according to this MEI study. With the exception of the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the median length of stay of an emergency room visit has been increasing for four years, going from 4 hours and 31 minutes in 2018 to 5 hours and 11 minutes last year.

Quelle que soit la noblesse des intentions de la Ville, le règlement «20-20-20» est bien loin «d’assurer une meilleure offre de logements abordables», l’objectif pourtant souhaité.

With taxes, fees, and various regulations, the municipal government apparatus substantially increases the risk and the price developers must pay to build.