October 22, 2022 | 6 min. 30 sec. | The Roy Green Show (Global Radio) Interview with Olivier Rancourt, Economist at the […]

The federal government’s bill to impose a surtax on the revenues of digital companies would hurt Canadian consumers according this MEI publication. “No matter how the government dresses up its digital tax bill, it is Canadian consumers who will once again pay for it,” said Olivier Rancourt, Economist at the MEI and author of the publication.

With many predicting a recession and with inflation at a level not seen in 30 years, an Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of the MEI finds that more than seven in ten Canadians (72%) think the individual tax burden is too high, compared to one in five (21%) who think it’s at an acceptable level.

The Quebec economy has a problem. Despite the jubilation of certain politicians over the province’s low unemployment numbers, almost all the job creation in Quebec comes from the different levels of government.

Contrary to what many commentators have been claiming for years, the failings of the health system are not due to “chronic underfunding.”

The fiscal loss from increasing the federal income tax rate from 33 to 25 percent is estimated at $212 million a year.

Opposer des baisses d’impôts (ou toute autre forme d’allègement fiscal) à une meilleure qualité des services publics est un faux dilemme. Nous pouvons nous « payer » les deux, et encore plus.

Au lieu de chercher à augmenter le fardeau fiscal des riches simplement parce qu’ils sont riches, le gouvernement du Canada devrait d’abord considérer tous les tenants et aboutissants des mesures qu’il envisage.

Proposals to increase taxes on the rich resurface often in the news. MEI researchers conclude in this study that, however the term “rich” is defined, this selective taxation does not pay, due to its longer-term indirect effects. By penalizing those who create wealth, this gives rise to a number of adverse effects that threaten the prosperity of all Canadians.

September 7, 2022 | 10 min. 19 sec. | Yasmine Abdelfadel (QUB Radio) Interview (in French) with Nathalie Elgrably-Lévy, Senior Economist at […]