Interview (in French) with Miguel Ouellette, Director of Operations and Economist at the MEI, broadcast on October 21, 2021 as part of MAtv Québec’s Mise À Jour.

The costs of policing have ballooned in recent years alongside growing public scrutiny of the roles and responsibilities of police officers and the changing context in which they work.

In order to improve economic health and Canadians’ standard of living, the government needs to break its expensive campaign promises and cancel the new spending.

Le gouvernement devrait-il utiliser nos taxes et impôts pour construire un stade de baseball à Montréal? 

Alberta’s new Associate Minister of Red Tape Reduction, Tanya Fir, has sure been on a hot streak since her appointment in July.

Roundtable Discussion (in French) with Olivier Rancourt, Economist at the MEI. Broadcast on October 4, 2021 on MAtv’s Mise À Jour Montréal.

Les mesures politiques populistes comme l’augmentation de l’imposition des banques et des compagnies d’assurance ne génèrent habituellement qu’un revenu très superficiel pour l’État, mais engendrent des coûts importants pour les consommateurs et les épargnants.

Populist political measures like raising taxes on banks and insurance companies usually only generate very superficial revenues for government, but they entail substantial costs for consumers and savers.

In the first quarter of 2021, for the first time in over a decade, Canada’s current account balance was positive.

Canada’s public debt has soared during the pandemic, reaching historic levels of over $1.2 trillion at the federal level—equivalent to more than $70,000 per taxpayer.