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Viewpoint – Is President Trump a Threat to Canada’s Auto Industry?
Donald Trump’s recent statements regarding the investments of auto industry giants and vehicle imports from Mexico have created significant uncertainty in Canada. His threat to impose tariffs at the U.S.-Mexico border to protect the American auto industry raises the possibility that Canada might also be affected by such a measure. If this were to happen, the economic consequences could be very harmful for both Americans and Canadians, since after half a century of trade liberalization, the two countries’ automotive industries are now completely integrated.
5-minute read
Trump et le secteur automobile
The integration of the North American automotive industry jeopardized.
4-minute read
Le président Trump et le protectionnisme canadien
Protectionism and Canada-US relations.
4-minute read
The CRTC doesn’t need to meddle in Canada’s broadband market
The state of Canada’s broadband market.
5-minute read
La gestion de l’offre pour les restaurants? Quelle mauvaise idée!
Montreal does not need supply management in catering.
5-minute read
Qu’est-ce qui réduit l’offre d’appartements à Montréal?
Does Airbnb contribute to the rise in the price of rents?
3-minute read
Investir à Montréal : le fardeau fiscal est toujours parmi les plus élevés au Canada
2016 ranking of the tax burden of investment in Canada’s major cities.
5-minute read
Pourquoi y a-t-il moins d’investissements privés au Québec?
What keeps Quebec investment at such a low level?
11-minute read
Would a $15 Minimum Wage Accelerate the Rural Exodus?
A strike of fast food restaurant employees in New York in 2012 gave birth to a movement demanding a substantial increase of the minimum wage in the United States, calling for it to rise to $15 an hour. Since then, several cities and states have established timelines for raising the minimum wage to that symbolic threshold. In Quebec, the major labour unions have taken up the charge, along with the symbolic $15 target.
2-minute read
L’IRIS et la politique de l’épouvantail
A substantial minimum wage hike would be particularly harmful in rural regions.