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Equalization: Welfare Trap or Helping Hand? based on Montreal Conference

In his latest newspaper column, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, looks at the high expectations of taxpayers, workers and businesses as they anxiously await the huge benefits they expect to see flow from natural gas off our shores. He argues that they have been disappointed both because they don't understand what to look for, and because they have unrealistic expectations of what can be accomplished in the very short time the industry has existed here. Expecting immediate and infinite returns from gas is not the way to ensure success, argues Crowley, instead we must have reasonable expectations of the resource, and infinite expectations of ourselves. Publication: CHH & MTT, April 24, 2002

Recognition continues to roll in for AIMS’ major contribution to the national health care debate

AIMS was the focus of praise during an April 17, 2002 presentation to the Romanow Commission on “The Future of Health Care”. The presentation, given by AIMS’ President Brian Lee Crowley and AIMS’ Fellow in Health Care Policy David Zitner, discussed how to improve quality of health outcomes for Canadians through the introduction of competition and proper evaluation in the current flawed system. Building on the themes of several of AIMS award-winning publications – publications whose influence and quality Commissioner Romanow went out of his way to remark on - AIMS stressed the need to “unbundle” the functions of insurer, providers and evaluator of health care and to implement proper management within the system. Commissioner Romanow expressed much gratitude for the work that AIMS does in the Health Care sector, and further emphasized the value of AIMS thoughtful and scholarly research to the Canadian debate on general issues.

International recognition for Institute’s innovative collaborative “Equalization Initiative” [HALIFAX] — For the third time in six years, Atlantic Canada’s public policy think tank has been honoured by the international think tank community. At a ceremony last Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, AIMS was awarded one of the prestigious Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Awards for 2002 (Innovative [...]

Here is what's new at AIMS, Atlantic Canada's Public Policy Think Tank

AIMS honoured by Atlas Economic Research Foundation for third time in six years

In his regular column appearing simultaneously in the Chronicle Herald and the Moncton Times and Transcript, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, shares his recent frustrating experience while crossing the Canada/U.S. border. With new areas of border cooperation constantly being explored between our two nations — including an eventual jointly administered continental perimeter, having U.S. customs inspectors working in the Port of Halifax — the importance of intelligent border priorities is crucial. Crowley explains how the current focus on what the U.S. does at the border has caused Canadians to lose sight of their own country’s priorities. For a country whose livelihood depends on free trade with its neighbour to the south, Canada’s border operations look unorganized and petty to an individual trying to bring in commercial goods in a tiny one-time transaction. Just imagine what a nightmare it must be for those who have to get that $1-billion in commercial trade across the line every day

For the third time in six years, Atlantic Canada’s public policy think tank has been honoured by the international think tank community. At a ceremony last Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, AIMS was awarded one of the prestigious Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Awards for 2002 (Innovative Projects Category), for the Institute’s Equalization Initiative. The Fisher [...]