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Ottawa garantit les prêts interbancaires 23 octobre 2008 - 08h14 LaPresseAffaires.com Michel Munger Calquant les initiatives de ses «collègues» européens et américain, Ottawa garantit les prêts interbancaires pour desserrer le marché du crédit. Le ministre fédéral des finances, Jim Flaherty, a fait cette annonce ce matin lors d'une conférence de presse. La mesure vise à redonner confiance aux institutions bancaires. Les banques utilisent normalement le prêt interbancaire pour assurer leurs besoins de liquidités à très court terme, afin de pouvoir prêter à leurs clients. Or, depuis le début de la crise du crédit en août 2007, elles hésitent à se refiler des liquidités, craignant que leurs concurrentes soient incapables d'effectuer les remboursements. Cela a fait bondir les taux d'intérêt exigés. Depuis que les gouvernements européens et américain ont annoncé la garantie temporaire des prêts interbancaires pour débloquer le marché, les taux ont reculé. Selon ce que rapporte l'Agence France-Presse, le taux interbancaire offert à Londres et exprimé en dollars (Libor) à 3 mois se détendait à 3,535%, contre 3,5412% mercredi. Il avait atteint 4,8187% le 10 octobre. L'Euribor à trois mois, l'un des principaux taux de référence du marché monétaire de la zone euro, poursuivait également son repli à 4,921% contre 4,936% la veille. À la mi-septembre, le marché était entré dans une période de paralysie avec des taux élevés après la faillite de la banque d'investissement Lehman Brothers. La crise du crédit, si elle ne se résorbe pas, menace de bloquer le pouvoir d'emprunt des particuliers et entreprises, qui se servent du crédit pour financer des projets. Jim Flaherty a tenu à rappeler que le Canada n'est pas aux prises avec les mêmes problèmes que ses voisins du Sud, où une bulle immobilière alimentée par des hypothèques à risque a récemment éclaté. Par contre, a déclaré le ministre, «le gouvernement du Canada ne laissera jamais le système canadien, qui est considéré comme un des meilleurs du monde, ne soit menacé par des événements internationaux». Ottawa ne voit toutefois pas le besoin de hausser la garantie des dépôts des épargnants au-delà du plafond actuel de 100 000 $. Il prend donc la direction inverse des gouvernements européens, qui ont augmenté les montants protégés. Par exemple, l'Irlande et l'Allemagne ont décidé de garantir tous les dépôts bancaires. Aux États-Unis, le montant protégé s'élève à 250 000 $ jusqu'en 2010. M. Flaherty a expliqué qu'à son avis, la garantie de la Société d'assurance-dépôts du Canada est déjà l'une des meilleures. Rappelons que le 10 octobre, le ministre Flaherty a fait savoir que le gouvernement achèterait 25 G$ d'hypothèques assurées par la SCHL afin de faciliter le financement à long terme des banques.

Calquant les initiatives de ses «collègues» européens et américain, Ottawa garantit les prêts interbancaires pour desserrer le marché du crédit. Pour en lire plus...

Le gouvernement canadien est sur le point de garantir les prêts pour s'assurer que les banques du pays ne soient pas désavantagées par rapport à leurs concurrentes. Pour en lire plus...

Retour des déficits à Ottawa........ * Presse Canadienne, * 07:23 Un économiste croit que le gouvernement de Stephen Harper doit changer son approche en ce qui a trait aux dépenses du gouvernement pour éviter un déficit budgétaire. L'économiste en chef de la banque Toronto-Dominion, Don Drummond, prévoit que le budget de l'année fiscale en cours, qui se termine le 31 mars 2009, sera équilibré. Cependant, M. Drummond s'attend à un déficit de 10,4 milliards $ pour l'année suivante, et des déficits de 9,9 milliards $, 5,5 millions $ et 2,4 milliards $ pour les trois années suivantes. Selon l'économiste, Ottawa sera obligé de diminuer les dépenses gouvernementales pour éviter les déficits au cours des prochaines années. Même s'il ne croit pas au scénario de récession immédiate pour le Canada, M. Drummond prévoit néanmoins un ralentissement de l'économie canadienne.

Dans la mise à jour financière que doit présenter le ministre fédéral des Finances en novembre, l'équilibre budgétaire a toutes les chances d'être respecté. Pour en lire plus...

Réagissant à la tourmente des marchés financiers, le gouvernement fédéral injecte 25 G$ au sein du marché bancaire et hypothécaire. Pour en lire plus...

Le président de l'Association des fabricants de pièces d'automobile du Canada, Gerry Fedchun, demande l'aide du gouvernement fédéral pour aider l'industrie à affronter la tourmente économique. Pour en lire plus...

Le gouvernement fédéral a généré un surplus de 2,9 milliards de dollars au cours des quatre premiers mois de son année financière, dont 1,7 milliard au cours du seul mois de juillet. Pour en lire plus...

Le ministère des Finances à annoncé vendredi un excédent budgétaire de 1,7 G$ en juillet, et un surplus total de 2,9 G$ pour les quatre premiers mois de l'exercice 2008-2009. Pour en lire plus...

No surprise here: Harper remains fiscally off balance with Quebec JEFFREY SIMPSON September 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM EDT Right there, in bold type on page 144 of the 2007 budget, the Harper government declared: "Fiscal Balance Has Been Restored." Everywhere Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes in Quebec - the issue being of interest only in that province - he affirms that "we solved the problem of the fiscal imbalance." His Quebec ministers repeat the mantra; his candidates hammer home the message. The inference: Vote for us because we handed over all that money to Quebec (and the other provinces), just as we promised in the 2006 campaign. Case closed. Except that, as anyone with the slightest sense of Quebec could have predicted, the appetite there only grows with the eating. "The fiscal imbalance, according to us, is not yet solved," proclaims Quebec Finance Minister Monique Jérôme-Forget. Things are much better, she acknowledges. But, "is it finished?" she asks. "No." Quebec Premier Jean Charest also insists more money is needed to "solve" the problem. And, by the way, how about handing over all money and federal jurisdiction over "culture and communications," so that Quebec can achieve "cultural sovereignty"? And, while you're at it, Mr. Harper, hurry up with that promise to eliminate Ottawa's power to spend any money in areas of provincial jurisdiction. Mr. Charest has learned the ways of a Quebec premier. Always demand. Never be satisfied. Keep the heat on. Position yourself as the "defender" of Quebec's interests. Insist on more money and power from Ottawa. Mr. Harper ought to have seen this coming. No federal prime minister can ever out-national the nationalists, and none can ever satisfy any premier, at least not for long. As a result, he and Mr. Charest are no longer political allies, because it does not suit Mr. Charest to be other than a demandeur. Instead, the Action Démocratique has become the Conservatives' closest political ally in Quebec, especially in the rural and small-town ridings the Conservatives target. This is the crowd that whipped up alarm over immigration. This is the party that wants a separate constitution for Quebec, talks always of "autonomy" for Quebec, wants Quebec citizenship, demands a massive transfer of power (and money, of course) from Ottawa to Quebec, and sees Canada as a very loose association of two states. Mr. Harper has never repudiated any of these demands/statements from his erstwhile allies. Mr. Harper, as is his wont, plays with slippery language in Quebec, often using the word "autonomy." Of course, he reminds everyone that he got passed the resolution describing the Québécois as a "nation" within Canada. And he brags about having "solved" the "fiscal imbalance." These ADQ/Conservative voters are exactly those for whom artists whining about cuts to their subsidies are figures of scorn. The brouhaha about Mr. Harper's $46-million in cuts to the arts goes right over their heads, or even fires them up more to support the Conservatives. Mr. Harper says his government has increased cultural spending by 8 per cent. Where he gets that number from is unknown. He did increase the Canada Council's budget over two years by $50-million, and he put $60-million into "local arts and festivals" in the 2007 budget. But the biggest increase this year was for the Francophone Summit in Quebec City, which will happen just after the election - $38-million in 2008 and $13-million in 2007. Is that culture? The $46-million cut is a drop in the bucket of the tens of billions transferred to Quebec and the other provinces to "solve" the fiscal imbalance. The attention being paid to it represents a classic example of the urgent but minor driving out the huge and important. The whole fiscal imbalance was an invention that became a mythology in Quebec: Big, bad, fat Ottawa was rolling in dough, while the poor, beleaguered provinces had too little. A commission, established under the separatist government, produced a sum it claimed would resolve the problem. But even after the Paul Martin government transferred a larger sum than the commission had demanded, the mythology held. Still more was required to solve the "problem," claimed Quebec and those provinces that clung to Quebec's coattails. Mr. Harper, fishing for votes in Quebec and desirous of slimming the federal government anyway, obliged with a cool $40-billion in transfers. "We have solved the fiscal imbalance," he proclaimed. Nice try.

Sans attendre Ottawa, le Québec s'associe à trois provinces et sept États américains pour créer la deuxième Bourse du carbone en importance au monde, dont les bases seront jetées dans un peu plus d'un an. Pour en lire plus...

Les grandes centrales syndicales du Québec reprochent à Ottawa de s'être approprié les surplus de la caisse d'assurance-emploi et demandent une amélioration en profondeur du régime. Pour en lire plus...

MLS : Ottawa officiellement candidate Mardi 16 septembre 2008 RDS.ca Le propriétaire des Sénateurs d'Ottawa, Eugene Melnyk, a dévoilé mardi son projet pour amener une équipe de la Ligue majeure de soccer (MLS) à Ottawa et construire un stade multifonctionnel de classe mondiale, dédié expressément au soccer, mais qui pourra aussi servir pour présenter des événements en plein air. "Le soccer est un sport établi et qui a une portée à l'échelle mondiale. Il est inculqué dans la culture et la tradition et il possède une capacité unique de rejoindre des amateurs de partout dans le monde, a déclaré M. Melnyk. Nous souhaitons amener le sport le plus populaire au monde à Ottawa et rien de mieux que le faire en adhérant à la Major League Soccer." En juillet, Ottawa s'est retrouvée sur une liste de neuf villes nord-américaines visées par la MLS, pour établir deux équipes d'expansion qui feront leur entrée dans le circuit en 2011. Afin de répondre à une condition préalable pour obtenir une franchise de la MLS à Ottawa, M. Melnyk a aussi dévoilé les plans pour la construction d'un stade extérieur de classe mondiale. Le stade de la MLS à Ottawa aura une capacité qui pourra accueillir jusqu'à 30 000 personnes et comprendra une surface de jeu de gazon naturel ainsi que cinq terrains de soccer qui seront construits à proximité du stade et qui seront mis à la disposition de la communauté. Ces éléments permettront la création d'un complexe majeur de soccer. Le stade sera situé à côté de la Place Banque Scotia. M. Melnyk a insisté sur le fait que la construction d'un stade de cette envergure exige un appui massif de la part de la communauté, une équipe de direction chevronnée, un solide plan d'affaires ainsi que la collaboration entre les secteurs privé et public. "Le stade est l'élément central de notre candidature pour amener la Major League Soccer dans notre région, mais les besoins pour un stade dans notre ville vont au-delà de cela. Toutes les villes de renommée mondiale possèdent un stade extérieur de classe mondiale. Le stade représente un investissement majeur dans notre communauté, donc nous désirons ériger un amphithéâtre de divertissement multifonctionnel. Nous aurons besoin d'un bâtiment sophistiqué afin d'avoir la possibilité d'attirer des événements sportifs internationaux, des concerts en plein air et des festivals dans la capitale nationale, de souligner M. Melnyk."

Québec est disposé à se rendre jusqu'en Cour suprême pour empêcher Ottawa d'aller de l'avant avec son projet de création d'une commission pancanadienne des valeurs mobilières. Pour en lire plus...

Le président et chef de la direction de Transat A.T., Jean-Marc Eustache, reproche au gouvernement fédéral de «saigner» les transporteurs aériens par certaines de ses mesures. Pour en lire plus...

Devant la difficulté d'obtenir du financement au Canada, l'industrie des biotechnologies demande à Québec et Ottawa de revoir leurs règles. Pour en lire plus...

Ottawa accorde 80 M$ pour une usine Ford 3 septembre 2008 - 15h36 Presse Canadienne L'aide financière pourrait créer ou maintenir 757 emplois au pays (Ontario). Le gouvernement conservateur a annoncé mercredi une aide remboursable de 80 M$ sur cinq ans pour aider à l'ouverture d'une usine de moteurs du constructeur automobile américain Ford, à Windsor, en Ontario. L'aide financière pourrait créer ou maintenir 757 emplois au pays, selon le gouvernement. Ford et d'autres partenaires pourraient investir jusqu'à 730 M$ d'ici 2012 dans ce projet. Cette annonce survient un jour après que 800 travailleurs manufacturiers de l'Ontario eurent appris que leur emploi allait être supprimé, et quelques jours avant le déclenchement probable de la campagne électorale fédérale. La critique libérale en matière de finances, Martha Hall Findlay, a estimé que l'annonce ne visait qu'à «acheter des votes». Ford avait supprimé 900 emplois l'an dernier lors de la fermeture de son usine de Windsor. Le constructeur automobile avait laissé savoir qu'il cherchait à rouvrir cette usine pour y fabriquer des moteurs V8 écologiques.

L'aide financière pourrait créer ou maintenir 757 emplois au pays, selon le gouvernement. Pour en lire plus...

C'est ce qu'indique un rapport du Conference Board du Canada publié alors que le milieu artistique lutte contre les compressions annoncées par Ottawa. Pour en lire plus...

August 7, 2008 VIA plans to invest $25 million to modernize Ottawa-Montreal railway infrastructure MONTREAL As part of the Government of Canada’s $692 million dollar investment to improve passenger rail service, VIA Rail Canada has announced it plans to invest more than $25 million on a multi-phase, multi-year program to modernize key parts of its rail infrastructure between Ottawa and Montréal. These improvements are part of VIA Rail’s overall capital investment plan. In this first phase, upgrades to the Ottawa-Montréal line will include the addition of a .76-km long passing track (siding) approximately 16 kilometres east of Ottawa, near Carlsbad Springs, a project which will be carried out by PNR RailWorks Inc. The siding will be constructed with remote-controlled power switches tied into the existing Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) system and Rail Traffic Control (RTC) dispatch system. The siding will also be equipped with a back track (additional track adjacent to the siding) for the storage of maintenance equipment, when required. VIA will also be installing new continuously-welded rail and performing other associated track work over some 40 track-miles between Coteau, Québec and Moose Creek, Ontario. This work, which is expected to be completed within the next few months, will be carried out by Total Track. Some trains on the Montréal-Ottawa route may experience minor delays while this work is being completed. Additionally, structural rehabilitation of the bridge over the South Nation River in Casselman, a project which has been awarded to SEMA Railway Structures, will also be completed. Improvements to VIA’s Ottawa station are also planned. VIA will be modernizing and improving the layout of the public washrooms, ticket office, baggage operations and Panorama (VIA 1) lounge. The lounge will also be enlarged to accommodate increased demand. As part of these renovations, VIA will be making both technological and environmental improvements to the station. The general contractor chosen for the project is Terlin Construction Ltd. of Ottawa. CSV Architects Inc. and Norr Ltd., also of Ottawa, will provide design and engineering support. Work on this project, worth some $500,000, will begin shortly and is expected to be completed by this fall. “These initiatives will improve comfort, speed, ride quality and reliability,” said VIA Rail president and chief executive officer Paul Côté. “They will also enhance overall safety, and increase scheduling flexibility and capacity for additional trains. Just as importantly”, he noted, “a more efficient operation will also contribute to reductions in fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.” “The projects on VIA’s Montréal-Ottawa route are part of the $692 million in new funding this government announced in 2007 as part of its commitment to providing Canadians with safe, reliable and sustainable passenger rail service,” said federal Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon.

Ontario: the Province that thinks it's Canada Amid regional grievances, McGuinty fights for a fair share of taxpayers' dollars MURRAY CAMPBELL From Saturday's Globe and Mail August 2, 2008 at 12:00 AM EDT Dalton McGuinty was doing a favour for reporters afflicted with summer-brain stupor. “Here's the news,” the Ontario Premier said, helpfully, after a speech late last month. “Ontarians are coming together to more effectively assert themselves in the face of an unfairness caused by the financial arrangements between us and Ottawa.” Indeed, it would be news if this coming-together was actually happening, and it would be momentous given the suggestion by the federal government this week that it is prepared to shift some economic powers to the provinces. But the residents of Canada's most populous province do not have an unbroken history of rising up as one to take on the federal government. Ontario is not Alberta, and the philosophy that provincial rights should be paramount has always had to compete with a powerful sense that Canada comes first. Mr. McGuinty embodies this duality. For more than three years, he has wasted few opportunities to make his claim that Ontario is being treated unfairly in Confederation because it receives, by the latest estimate, about $20-billion less in services from federal government than its taxpayers remit to Ottawa. He criticizes the federal equalization program – financed predominantly by Ontario taxpayers – for redistributing money to provinces that are more prosperous than his. He takes issue with health and other transfer payments that are less generous than those given to other provinces. And he asks why an unemployed worker in Ontario is treated more severely than in the rest of the country and why the Harper government wants to leave the province under-represented in the Commons. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty gestures during his public lecture 'Ontario's Place in the 21st century' at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, Monday, May 19, 2008. Hanging over all this is the feeling in Ontario that the 1988 U.S. free-trade pact broke the bargain of Confederation in which Canadians bought their manufactured goods from Ontario in return for a recycling of some of its wealth through programs such as equalization. The Premier is always careful to say that he is a proud Canadian and that he understands his province has been blessed by geography and circumstances that give it a responsibility to share its wealth. But the Premier's sustained effort – reflected in his website fairness.ca – suggests a growing sense of regionalism in Ontario. “My friends, it is time to stand up for our province, time to stand up for Ontario,” he said in his speech last month to the Chamber of Commerce in London, Ont. He suggested that lessons could be learned from other provinces that have gone mano-a-mano with federal administrations although he shied away from emulating Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams, who stormed out of one federal-provincial meeting in protest and then removed Canadian flags from provincial buildings. Ontarians who realize that Newfoundland has a much larger per-capita income than Ontario, thanks in part to $477-million in equalization payments this year may wish their Premier to be as aggressive. But while his tactics may be lower-key, Mr. McGuinty isn't going away. “It's becoming more and more urgent, and there's a continuing need to speak about it, because there hasn't been an appetite at the federal level to really engage in fixing the system,” said an official in the Premier's office. The question is whether Ontarians are likely to respond to his appeal or whether circumstances will transform Ontario into a province with a profound regional grievance. The trend line of estrangement from Ottawa suggests it is possible, but this has to be countered by the strong identification with Canada that Ontario residents have always shown. Mr. McGuinty recognizes other provinces will resent Ontario throwing its weight around. “There is a lazy caricature that is convenient for people, which people can resort to, which is that we're being greedy, we're being uncharitable, we're being un-Canadian,” he told the editorial board of The Globe and Mail in 2006. He also knows that talk of regionalism makes his voters uncomfortable. He is fond of comparing the province's role in Confederation to his own situation growing up as the eldest of 10 children. “My responsibility in the eyes of my parents could be summed up in one word: compliance,” he said in London. “Just be quiet and set a good example. Maybe there is a little bit of that to us here in Ontario.” Neither analysis deals completely with Ontario's complex, shifting history. The province had a very strong sense of identity right from the formation of Canada in 1867 but it also was proud that one of its own, John A. Macdonald, was its first prime minister. And Ontario was conscious that it owed its growing prosperity to the high-tariff walls erected as part of Macdonald's National Policy that sustained its manufacturing industries. But, as historian Randall White notes, long-serving premier Oliver Mowat (1872-1896) battled Macdonald for control of provincial resources (earning the nickname “the little tyrant”) and, later, both Howard Ferguson and Mitch Hepburn fought pitched battles with Ottawa over federal encroachment on provincial jurisdiction. Prevailing attitudes changed during the Second World War, which transformed Canada into a modern industrial state with Ontario at its centre. The postwar province was so diversified economically that it was touched by almost every federal policy. As Queen's University political economist Thomas Courchene has noted, “national policy had frequently had little choice but to be cast in a pro-Ontario light.” Leslie Frost believed that political relations had to reflect these economic ties. When he became Ontario's premier in 1949, he set about building a co-operative relationship with Ottawa. The province surrendered much of its taxing authority and agreed to the equalization scheme that vexes Mr. McGuinty. During Mr. Frost's 12 years in office, the old confrontations died away and the modern notion of Ontario as a helpful saviour of Confederation – exemplified by John Robarts' Confederation of Tomorrow conference in 1967 – took hold. So complete was this subsuming of Ontario's regional identity that historian Arthur Lower concluded in 1968 that the province had little collective will and asked in an article: “Does Ontario exist?” No one laughed and, indeed, historian Peter Oliver questioned seven years later why “anyone would attempt to write the history of a region which isn't.” Ontario was firmly by the federal government's side during the energy battles of the 1970s, supporting Ottawa's move, through the National Energy Program, to gain a larger share of Alberta's oil revenues. And Ontario forsook its old alliances with Quebec to side with the Trudeau government's push to patriate the Constitution and enact the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The MPs that Ontarians send to Ottawa are still more likely to represent the federal argument to Ontario than vice versa – Mr. McGuinty has found few allies in any federal government caucus – but MPPs at Queen's Park began to fall out of step in the 1980s. The Peterson government was impatient with Brian Mulroney's agenda of fiscal restraint and free trade. In particular, Ontario saw the free-trade pact with the United States – the end of the old National Policy – as evidence that Ottawa was promoting the rest of Canada at its expense. By the early 1990s, Bob Rae concluded that the country seemed to be “based on the premise that everyone else could speak ill of Ontario and that this inherently wealthy place would continue to bankroll Canada.” In a 1993 speech, he described Ontario as “the part of Canada that dare not speak its name.” Mr. McGuinty owes much to Mr. Rae's decision to engage a consulting firm to draft a cost-benefit analysis to buttress his belief that the structure of Confederation in the wake of the free-trade deal and cuts in transfer payments neglected Ontario. Mr. Rae's “fair shares federalism” argument is the precursor of the current premier's “fairness” campaign. Mr. Harris agreed that the structure of Confederation served Ontario ill. He, too, fought the federal government (often along with other premiers) on everything from employment insurance to the Kyoto greenhouse-gas protocol. But the federal government at the time was preoccupied with Quebec, after the wake of the 1995 referendum that narrowly kept that province in the country. The federal Liberals' stranglehold on Ontario gave Mr. Harris's Progressive Conservative government no allies on Parliament Hill and Ontario's fundamental objections remained. Mr. McGuinty has earned some concessions in the past three years but the broad-ranging reform of fiscal relations he is seeking eludes him. His efforts seem to resonate with voters who find the notion of a $20-billion “gap” easy to comprehend. One opinion poll earlier this year gave him two-to-one support over federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in their war of words over Ontario's economic strategy. But will 13 million Ontarians find a will to act collectively and heed their Premier's call to arms? Mr. White concedes only that the province “is gradually recovering some sense of a regional identity it lost after the Second World War.” Mr. Courchene, too, is careful about predicting the future. “They're thinking of themselves as meriting better treatment from the federal government,” he said. “Does that make them a region? I don't know.” Certainly not in the way that Quebec is distinctive or the West feels it has been victimized by Bay Street and the NEP. It is also hard to define Ontario: The northwest feels closer to Manitoba and there is little identification with Toronto in the eastern part of the province. In addition, immigrants – and Ontario has been getting 125,000 or more a year – have only to look at their new passports to discern their allegiance. But circumstances may yet push Ontario into regional belligerence as the belief grows that the equalization program is unsustainable. Its taxpayers contribute 40 per cent of the cost of the scheme – $13.6-billion now, and growing by leaps and bounds – and this burden rises every year whether its economy grows or not. Conversely, while Alberta's oil revenues are part of the equation that determines payouts, the revenues themselves are off limits to the federal treasury. Mr. Courchene calculates that, partly as a result of this scheme, Ontario's per-capita revenues trail every other province. The prediction that Ontario will soon become a have-not province and qualify for payments that, absurdly, are largely funded by its own taxpayers casts a harsh light on the scheme's shortcomings. Mr. Courchene calls this prospect “fiscalamity,” and if Ontarians catch his drift Mr. McGuinty will have a blank cheque to throw some weight around. The eldest child may decide he's fed up with setting a good example and looking after the other kids.

Le ministre fédéral de l'Industrie, Jim Prentice, menace de serrer la vis à l'industrie de la téléphonie cellulaire en raison des tarifs des messages textes. Pour en lire plus...

Ottawa n'a pas l'intention de faire des chèques aux familles ou de réduire à nouveau leurs impôts pour les aider à composer avec la hausse du prix de l'essence. Pour en lire plus...

Le projet d'entente de l'OMC «menace la production québécoise». C'est pourquoi l'organisation demande à Québec de faire pression sur Ottawa pour empêcher l'adoption du projet. Pour en lire plus...

Le Canada subit un déficit de 500 M$ pour les deux premiers mois de l’exercice financier 2008-2009. Le ministère des Finances assure toutefois que ces résultats ne reflètent pas l’ensemble de l’exercice financier. Pour en lire plus...