This paper presents the outline for a smart market geared to Quebec s woodchip industry. It aims to explain how such a market operates, and to show how it fits into or modifies the existing trading system. The proposed smart market has two main objectives. The first is to enhance the efficiency...

The positive social return on most health expenditure leads us to suggest a shift in Quebec to move away from attempts at restricting these outlays and towards a "growth management"" attitude. Such an attitude also proves compatible with the conclusions of the numerous public reports recently...

This paper first recalls the high level of public indebtedness in Quebec. A literature review and a description of the evolution of the problematics, carried out by the means of a retrospective analysis as well as a projection exercise, show (1) the "uncoupling"" of the public finances that...

In this report, we look at a representative sample of studies on skills shortage in five sectors (Aerospace, Automobile, Biotechnologies, Environment Technologies and Information & Telecommunication Technologies) in order to better understand the interactions between skilled labour demand and...

Au sein de compagnies multidivisionnelles intégrées, il est généralement indispensable que différentes unités ou divisions s'échangent des biens et des services. Les prix auxquels ces biens et services sont échangés sont appelés prix de transfert, ou encore prix de cession interne. Les...

La percée et les performances des logiciels libres incitent de plus en plus au questionnement sur leurs réelles capacités et surtout sur l'opportunité de les choisir. C'est dans cette perspective que le projet de migration vers la suite bureautique sous Linux a été lancé au...