Quebec 2016-2017 Budget.

A number of Bay Street economists are urging the federal government to loosen its purse strings even more and run larger deficits than announced during the election campaign in order to “stimulate” the Canadian economy. This short-term perspective, however, fails to take into account several important considerations.

The inefficiency of running large deficits versus other ways of stimulating economic growth.

The well-being of women is intimately connected to the degree of economic freedom that prevails in a given country.

In recent years, Canadian provinces have adopted various “green” energy policies that have had a discernable impact on their energy markets. Carbon levies and constraints on using certain energy sources to generate electricity are now commonplace, and their use seems to be spreading. Until recently, Alberta had avoided such policy tools. In addition, much electricity in Alberta is generated, transmitted, and sold by private market actors, and thus political interference in the market has mostly been avoided.

The potential impact of various proposed energy policies on consumers and taxpayers in Alberta.

A course in self-defense against ideological attacks would be beneficial to business people.

Free education, an expensive and bad idea.

Comparing the performance of the provincial premiers in terms of government spending, corporate and individual taxes, and deficits and debt.

For several decades, Quebec has been one of the Canadian provinces in which public spending, the tax burden, and the debt level are the highest. One of the Quebec government’s main challenges is therefore to reverse these three trends in order to improve the dynamism of the province’s economy and to allow the population’s standard of living to rise. How does Quebec’s current government compare with the other provincial governments in achieving these goals?