Comment le Canada traite le Quebec: Landry se plaint pour les mauvaises raisons
Dans un article publie dans Le Devoir, le president de AIMS, Brian Lee Crowley, ainsi que le directeur-executif de l'Institut economique de Montreal, Michel Kelly-Gagnon, expliquent les effets nefastes de 40 ans de paiements de transfert sur le comportement du gouvernement du Quebec ainsi que sur l'economie de la province. La conclusion des auteurs? "Le meilleur moyen d'assurer un avenir plus prospere a la Belle Province n'est pas de la rendre independante d'Ottawa mais plutot de la rendre independante de l'Etat tout court, le provincial comme le federal. Le meme message peut tres bien s'appliquer a l'ensemble du Canada."
Growth, not government, best friend of the poor
The globalization protesters are gearing up to disrupt the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City as they have disrupted other major international gatherings in the past year. One of the key objections to the growth of global markets and trade was summed up by Lori Wallach, one of the leaders of the anti-WTO protests in Seattle. Globalization, she claimed, harmed the poor, preying on the world's most vulnerable: "While the macroeconomic indicators have often looked good, real wages in many countries have declined, and wage inequality has increased both within and between countries." If accurate, that's a pretty damning indictment of global market capitalism. Unfortunately for Ms. Wallach - but not for the poor - it is just the opposite of the truth.
Following the Money Trail
It has been suggested recently that government subsidies to business in Atlantic Canada are considerably lower than the Canadian norm. This runs directly counter both to popular perception and to the work of a number of analysts. Both views cannot be correct, and yet getting the right answer is vital if public policy is to help rather than hinder the arrival of prosperity in this region. So who's right?
Subsidies to business as much as 29% higher in Atlantic Canada than in the rest of the country
AIMS study contradicts claims region not getting its
AIMS On-Line for mid March 2001
Here is a brief overview of just some of AIMS' activities and publications in the last few weeks
AIMS shortlisted a third time for Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Award
Road to Growth, by Senior Policy Analyst, Fred McMahon.
Blue Revolution: from fishing to farming the seas
In his regular column in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that "a revolution is underway off the world's coasts. In that revolution, the old "capture fishery" - hardy men in boats battling the elements and each other for an unpredictable share of the wild fish swimming by - is waning. In its place is emerging the technology and the expertise to farm the seas in a stable, predictable way. Not agriculture, the cultivation of the land, but aquaculture, the cultivation of the waters
How to Farm the Seas II: AIMS West Coast Conference
The science, economics, and politics of aquaculture on the West Coast
The Private Foundations of Canada
The Private Foundations of Canada, the umbrella group representing private charitable foundations in Canada, recently held a Members' Seminar in Toronto where the theme was "Engaging the public in the public policy process". AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was invited to address the Seminar about the challenges facing democracy.
AIMS On-Line for mid February 2001
Here is a brief overview of just some of AIMS' activities and publications since the beginning of 2001