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MEI – Ballooning Public Service – Renaud Brossard

Interview with Renaud Brossard, Vice President, Communications at the MEI, about a recent MEI report ranking the five major prime ministers who have held power since 1984 based on the variation in the number of federal public servants per 1,000 inhabitants during their mandates and why a rapidly expanding civil service is a cause for concern. Published on Conversation That Matters on March 22, 2024.

Why economic liberalism still matters

For many of the issues our society is facing, from lagging productivity to our perennially underperforming health-care systems, at least a part of the problem is a lack of economic freedom.

ER Wait Times in Quebec Are Stagnating

The median patient visiting a Quebec emergency room last year spent 5 hours and 13 minutes there, according to this study published by the MEI. “This year again, Quebec patients have had to be patient indeed, with emergency room visits taking over five hours,” says Emmanuelle B. Faubert, economist at the MEI and author of the study.

À Montréal, construisons plus et taxons moins

La mairesse de Montréal, Valérie Plante, semble insister pour que l’on juge les objectifs de son règlement pour une métropole mixte — aussi connu sous le nom de « règlement 20-20-20 » — plutôt que ses effets observables.

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