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4-minute read
Safeguard French by making Quebec richer
Reducing taxes and regulatory burdens in education would make it more attractive for immigrants to learn French.
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3-minute read
Assurer la vitalité du français au Québec
La véritable question reste de savoir comment convaincre un plus grand nombre de personnes de parler le français couramment.
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5-minute read
The common thread on tech regulation? The consumer ends up paying
It’s time to stop punishing consumers for the choices they make simply because they fail to conform to the choices a bureaucrat would make for them.
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9-minute read
Linguistic Vitality by Other Means
With the different levels of government intensifying their efforts to promote the use of the French language, an analysis of the economic history of Quebec identifies the real winning conditions for favouring the vitality of French. This publication shows the strong connection between the prosperity of francophones and the attractiveness of French in the province.
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3-minute read
Regulatory quicksand holds back clean tech in Alberta
Sitting on these abandoned and orphaned wells instead of repurposing them is a forgone opportunity, and a shameful waste.
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2-minute read
Lowering Lumber Prices with Freer Interprovincial Trade
Restrictions have likely contributed to the ballooning of lumber prices over the past year, since some less developed local lumber mills aren’t able to process the volumes required by the market.
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7-minute read
For a Decentralized Vaccine Passport
It has already been over a year since the pandemic turned our lives upside down and governments severely curtailed our individual freedoms. Thankfully, the vaccination campaign is now in full swing, so we can hope for a return to a better quality of life in the near future. This publication argues for the introduction of a non-mandatory, decentralized vaccine passport to help make this happen.
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MEI – The removal of internal trade barriers in Canada – Krystle Wittevrongel
April 19, 2021 | 7 min. 47 sec. | The Mike Farwell Show (570 News) Interview with Krystle Wittevrongel, Public Policy Analyst […]
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3-minute read
Tear down Canada’s interprovincial trade barriers
It is long past time that politicians caught up to economists on the free trade issue and eliminated interprovincial (and international) trade barriers.
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4-minute read
Le commerce entre les provinces, «qu’ossa donne»?
Selon des études économiques poussées, il serait possible d’augmenter le PIB par habitant du Canada de 3,8% simplement en éliminant les barrières au commerce interprovincial.