Presentation by Germain Belzile, Senior Associate Researcher at the MEI, before St-Hyacinthe CÉGEP students.

Taxpayers always meet the months of March and April with some apprehension, as they will have to devote precious hours of their time to completing their income tax returns, or pay someone else to do it for them. Is it possible to make life easier for taxpayers by simplifying the tax system?

Pascale Déry, Vice-President, Communications and Development at the MEI, hosted the closing conference of the Forum économique de la relève d’affaires’ 4th […]

Presentation by Germain Belzile, Senior Associate Researcher at the MEI, before members of the Association des économistes québécois.

March 18, 2019 | 16 min. 39 sec. | Nathalie le midi (BLVD-FM) Interview (in French) with Mathieu Bédard, Economist at the […]

Love dilemmas and the economy.

February 13, 2019 | 12 min. 20 sec. | Nathalie le midi (BLVD-FM) Interview (in French) with Germain Belzile, Senior Associate Researcher […]

The excessive regulation that stifles entrepreneurship and drags down the economy in Canada.

Quebec Premier François Legault has often stated his desire to attract foreign investment into the province and to increase Quebecers’ standard of living. An essential precondition for this is to create an economic environment that is more favourable to productivity growth, considered by economists to be the main determinant of rising living standards in the long term. This can be achieved by reducing the amount of room taken up by the government in the economy, through a decrease in public spending.

The excessive regulation that stifles entrepreneurship and drags down the economy in Canada.