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Canada’s 2030 GHG Emission Targets: Globally Insignificant, Likely Counterproductive

Canada should focus more on global impact than on local reduction efforts in its attempts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, according to this new study by the Montreal Economic Institute.

Labour Shortages: Helping a Trapped Pool of Potential Workers Help Themselves

The federal and provincial governments should make the reduction in social benefits more gradual in order to encourage employable welfare beneficiaries to join the labour market, concludes this MEI study.

Increase Productivity to Respond to the Labour Shortage

In order to alleviate the lack of labour, the Quebec government should lower corporate taxes, which would stimulate investment in productivity, according to this study published by the Montreal Economic Institute.

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The reason to care about economics, and the reason to study it, is not just to understand material well-being, but instead it's about a much bigger picture: how we cooperate in a world of strangers and diversity, and how we turn that cooperation into better and longer and more peaceful lives for more people.
Steven Horwitz (1964-2021), Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise, Ball State University.

MEI in the Media

Environment

True North, p. web

February 16, 2023

Canadian emission targets miss the forest for the trees

If Canada were to be carbon neutral tomorrow, it would take China only 21 days…

Labour

Financial Post, p. FP9

February 15, 2023

The inactivity trap: Would you leave welfare for $4.61/hr?

Would you take a job for $4.61 an hour? Probably not. But that’s the choice…

Labour

Montreal Gazette, p. A5

February 1, 2023

To alleviate Quebec's labour shortage, boost productivity

Our provincial and local governments have not managed to create an environment conducive to investment…

The State of the Boreal Forest Harvest

Setting the record straight on mistaken information about the forest harvest in Canada.

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