This editorial in the national edition of The Globe and Mail, reviews the first two papers in AIMS' special Equalization Commentary Series. It accepts the research saying Canada is over-equalizing, and concludes - "Enough already!"
The message is simple, 'the world doesn’t adapt to us'. When people are free to buy what they please, you have to give them what they want. In his fortnightly column, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley explains this principle is relevant to everything we do in Atlantic Canada, but nowhere is it more important than in agriculture.
Equalization in Canada is supposed to ensure people across the country have access to reasonably comparable public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation. This special Commentary Series goes beyond the dollar and cents to the actual public services.
In this op/ed that appeared in the St. John's Evening Telegram, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley responds to an editorial in the same paper suggesting think tanks shouldn't be eligible for charitable status. Crowley explains the role and the funding of public policy think tanks.
In his column in the National Post, Lorne Gunter uses AIMS special Equalization Commentary Series to support his arguement that equalization needs to be scaled back, not increased as has been proposed.
AIMS special Equalization Commentary Series attracted the attention of Nigel Hannaford, a member of The Calgary Herald editorial board. In his regular weekend column, he takes a closer look at the Equalization numbers.
Industry cannot get locked into always doing things the way they have been done, but should adapt to the new reality. AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley used the agriculture industry as an example during a luncheon address to an economic conference in the Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia. His remarks were featured in the provincial edition of The Chronicle-Herald.
In the first of a three part series on equalization, AIMS shows that equalization is anything but equal. The release of the first Commentary in the series prompted this story in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.
Gas regulation provides political benefits for the government but no real benefits for consumers. That's the message delivered by AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley in this news story about the passage in New Brunswick of the Petroleum Products Pricing Act.
In his fortnightly column, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley defines Atlantica. He explains it's not about an imaginery bogeyman ready to takeover the region, but about trade. He writes: "The exchanges between Vermont and Nova Scotia or New Hampshire and Newfoundland are hardly worth mentioning. But we are about to become a major doorway for the trade between Asia and the North American heartland. It is not so much the products of Atlantica that are straining to cross the border, but the industrial might of China, India and the Asian Tigers."