4-minute read
La tarte aux merveilles
Revenu Québec teaches taxation issues to children using a tale.
4-minute read
Une devise qui en dit long
Comparison between Québec and Alberta.
4-minute read
Aider intelligemment
How to help the manufacturing sector of Quebec’s resource regions?
1-minute read
Bringing back tolls on Quebec highways
The scope of roadwork announced in February by the Quebec Department of Transport ($12 billion from 2008 to 2012) suggests the extent to which the maintenance of highway infrastructure has been neglected in recent years. Last October, the Montreal Economic Institute published an Economic Note outlining tolls’ efficiency in financing the highway network. The Note showed that this type of revenue collection best respects the user-pay principle.
4-minute read
There’s a better way to support the regions
Report of the Task Force on Business Investment (Gagné Committee).
6-minute read
11 idées pour changer le Québec – 0 %
Eleven ideas from the MEI for getting Quebec out of its torpor.
6-minute read
11 idées pour changer le Québec – 2 points
Eleven ideas from the MEI for getting Quebec out of its torpor.
1-minute read
Domestic prices and the appreciation of the Canadian dollar
Canadian consumers believe that they are not getting the full value at the check-out counter of the substantial appreciation in the Canadian dollar during the last five years. An exchange rate appreciation makes exports more expensive and imports less expensive. While this creates a more competitive selling environment for the producers of exportables, at the same time it provides a more favorable environment for consumers and importers.
1-minute read
Opinion of Quebeckers on Road Network Funding
Léger Marketing poll commissioned by the Montreal Economic Institute.
3-minute read
Au-delà du débat sur l’impôt
The debate over the Charest government proposed tax cuts.