The End of Days for Charest?

Law 78 has now so antagonized all sections of Quebec society from moderate Anglo professors like myself through to trade unions and perhaps the whole of the French speaking Quebecois intelligentsia that Charest has run out of good options.  He could simply recognize that the existing tax system could be

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Dutch Diseased Labour Markets

If one reads the G&M and NatPo business sections one is treated to a steady stream of largely rosy and pompous pronouncements on the structural shift in the Canadian economy towards resource extraction on the one hand, and on the other hand, to the non- tradeable service sectors.  The tell

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