| In November, CIRANO distinguished itself through a sustained presence with provincial and federal decision-making institutions. Several CIRANO researchers and members were invited to present their work, testify before parliamentary committees, and participate in strategic discussions on major issues affecting Quebec and Canada. Through the quality of their analyses and the rigor of their contributions, they helped advance public reflection and inform decision-makers on economic, social, and governance matters.
These activities concretely reflect CIRANO’s fundamental mission: bridging scientific research and decision-making environments, and fostering lasting collaboration between academia, public and parapublic organizations, the private sector, and government institutions. By mobilizing evidence-based data and multidisciplinary expertise, CIRANO continues to support the development of public policies grounded in solid and relevant knowledge.
The interventions carried out this month illustrate the essential role that CIRANO plays within the Quebec and Canadian ecosystem, by supporting dialogue between research and public action and contributing to informed decision-making for the benefit of society. |
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CIRANO extends its warmest congratulations to Jean-Marc Rousseau, recipient of the 2025 ADRIQ Bernard-Landry Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of innovation in Québec. The award was presented to him by Eric Girard, Minister responsible for Regional Economic Development (MEIE), in the presence of Chantal Renaud-Landry. |
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CIRANO is proud to have participated in the closing evening of Science Meets Parliament, an initiative of the Canadian Science Policy Centre (CSPC) designed to strengthen connections between the scientific community and Canadian parliamentarians. This evening of rich exchanges offered exceptional visibility for CIRANO, the Francophone International Network for Scientific Advice (RFICS), and partner universities. |
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CIRANO was present at the Journée maritime du Québec, which took place at the Assemblée nationale du Québec and brought together numerous stakeholders from the maritime sector to discuss the strategic issues of the corridor. On this occasion, the minister responsible for the Stratégie maritime du Québec, Mr. Bernard Drainville, received the most recent report produced by GVCdtLab and CIRANO, prepared ahead of the Conférence des gouverneurs et premiers ministres du Saint-Laurent et des Grands Lacs, held in Québec City in early October. |
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Two activities held as part of the Programmation de recherche à portée gouvernementale (PRPG), organized jointly by CIRANO, brought together researchers and ministerial representatives to discuss the relationship between skills, education, and labour-market needs in Quebec. |
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The recent CIRANO study “Crop Insurance and Risk Management for Yield Loss,” by Jacinthe Cloutier (CIRANO, Université Laval), Marie-Ève Gaboury-Bonhomme (Université Laval), William Robitaille (Université Laval), Marie-Claude Roy (Université Laval), and Simone Ubertino (Université Laval), highlights the importance of increasing efforts to inform and advise Quebec’s farm managers about crop insurance programs, as well as more broadly about climate risks and strategies to address them. On December 8, during a lunchtime webinar, the authors will present the key findings of the report and answer questions from participants. |
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The fourteenth edition of the Workshop for Macro Research in Montreal will be held on Tuesday, December 9 at CIRANO. This edition will include five presentations by Diego De Sousa Rodrigues (UQAM), Santiago Camara (McGill), Pierre-Edouard Collignon (Université Laval), Giacomo Rella (UQAM), and Jean-Félix Brouillette (HEC Montreal). |
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Nathalie De Marcellis-Warin et Carole Vincent |
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In 2024-2025, health spending exceeded $60 billion, representing half of the Quebec government's total spending. Quebec is at a turning point, and the government faces difficult trade-offs: improving access to care and equity in access to care, particularly for vulnerable individuals; putting the population back at the heart of the healthcare system; reviewing the balance between curative and preventive care; regulating the role of the private sector in healthcare; addressing the loss of autonomy; and enabling people to age with dignity. In this context, how can the healthcare system be transformed for the better? |
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Olivier Jacques, Emna Ben Jelili, Alexandre Prud'homme et Emmanuelle Arpin |
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Public health can be defined in several ways. In Canada, provinces have considerable latitude in deciding which programs make up what is normally referred to as public health. This makes interprovincial comparisons very difficult. Recent analyses by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) suggest that Quebec spends the least on public health. But is this really the case? A CIRANO study (Jacques et al., 2025) offers a new perspective on the public health efforts of Quebec compared to Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. |
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Kevin Moran et Dalibor Stevanovic |
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Over the past few decades, the Canadian economy has faced a series of macroeconomic shocks of varying origins and types: the 2008–2009 global financial crisis, sharp fluctuations in commodity prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, periods of high geopolitical uncertainty, and rapid monetary tightening aimed at containing post-pandemic inflation. These episodes have profoundly affected macroeconomic conditions and posed significant challenges to public finances at both the federal and provincial levels. |
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Daniel J. Caron, Alexandre Prud'homme, Maude Laberge, Labante Outcha Dare et Roxane Borgès Da Silva |
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The transformation of public organisations towards a digital environment raises many questions about how to achieve this. In this study, the authors examine the individual, organisational and structural determinants of the attitudes of health professionals towards the digital transformation and determine whether these factors vary according to the categories of health professionals, the type of practice setting or according to geographical location. An online questionnaire was conducted in the spring of 2023 among general practitioners, medical specialists, nurses and licensed practical nurses in Quebec, and 2,576 valid responses were used for the analyses. |
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Thomas G. Poder et Hosein Ameri |
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In this report, we empirically compare seven elicitation techniques for evaluating the utilities associated with health states described by the Short-Form 6-Dimension version 2 (SF-6Dv2), where the standard gamble (SG) is considered the reference approach. This allows us to estimate a SF-6Dv2 value set of health utilities for use in Quebec and to introduce a new approach based on multiple bounded discrete choice (MBDC). Various econometric estimation techniques were used, and all analyses were performed on data collected from French-speaking individuals aged 18 and over residing in Quebec, Canada, in 2016 and 2018. |
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Alain Dudoit et Tony Labillois |
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Canada is at a strategic crossroads where its digital sovereignty depends directly on three inseparable levers: data interoperability across federal, provincial, and territorial (FPT) governments; sovereign cloud infrastructure; and the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector. These three levers cannot be treated independently: they form an integrated architecture that shapes productivity, cybersecurity, state modernization, and Canada’s ability to confront the current fragmentation of its information systems. |
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Adam Abdel Kader Touré, Martin Trépanier et Thierry Warin |
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