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Des solutions pour aider les restaurateurs
L’industrie de la restauration est sans l’ombre d’un doute l’une des plus affectées par les mesures de distanciation physique présentement en vigueur.
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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.
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The US-Canada Relationship: An Enduring Partnership of Free-Market Economies
The U.S. and Canada long have benefited from the world’s largest and most comprehensive economic engagement, which supports millions of jobs in each country and dynamic entrepreneurial growth.
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A Sound Competition Approach Supports Air Canada’s Acquisition of Air Transat
The Competition Bureau submitted its report on March 27, 2020 coming out against Air Canada’s proposed acquisition of Air Transat, which has otherwise already been approved by shareholders. While the airline industry is being battered by the coronavirus pandemic, this publication by the MEI shows that a dynamic understanding of competition mechanisms argues in favour of the transaction.
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Corporations are and should be people
If Canada becomes a place where investors are scared off lest they lose their humans rights as soon as they organize into a company, we will all suffer tremendously.
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Canadian health care: A warning, not a beacon
Canada’s system of socialized medicine has created high taxes and suffering patients. That’s not what Americans want or deserve.
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Legislation should help rather than hinder the gig economy
Too often, lawmakers propose reforms that might sound good, but actually make the problem worse. Instead of making it harder to hire freelancers and parttime workers, lawmakers should be making it easier.
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Cour suprême – Nouvelle menace pour les travailleurs à la pige
La liberté de contracter et de travailler à sa guise n’est pas seulement un droit fondamental, c’est aussi l’un des moyens les plus efficaces d’aider les travailleurs marginaux qui ont besoin de ce premier échelon.
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The Sharing Economy: Destroying Jobs Won’t Help Low-Income Workers
Will Canada import California’s job-killing experiment and risk putting freelance work out of the reach of Canadians who need it? This MEI publication shows that forcing companies to consider freelance workers as employees could reduce these workers’ incomes and deprive many of them of this first rung on the jobs ladder.
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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.