Economies open to trade are ones that will prosper
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that Atlantic Canada's economic future lies in large part in building a new cross border region with New England: Atlantica.
Old ways suit Ottawa’s needs, not region’s
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley examines the questions that no one is asked about the Prime Minister's July 2000 announcement of $700-million in spending in the Atlantic region. Here's an extract: "What exactly is the problem that Ottawa is trying to fix? By making this announcement, Ottawa drives home yet again, both inside and outside the region, the message that we're a "have-not" region. Unless we get a handout from taxpayers in other parts of the country, we're going nowhere and, worst of all, that we're failures at the high-tech game. But none of these things is true."
Ottawa’s Atlantic schemes are coming up empty
In his monthly column in The Globe and Mail, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley analyses the recent announcement by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of a new $700-million federal programme for Atlantic Canada. Publication: G&M, July 2, 2000.
Fuel Fax: Regulation – The AIMS View
“Regulation is ponderous, it moves at the pace of government, not the real world.” In this piece from Fuel Fax – Atlantic Edition, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley discusses the negative impacts that gasoline price regulation has on the local distributors and the consumers. Crowley shows how average gas prices, what consumers will pay for gas in the long haul, are higher in regulated provinces where bureaucrats dictate the prices - such as PEI, than deregulated ones where intense competition dictates costs.
A policy revolution: Regulation and promotion should be kept separate
“One anonymous scientist said, ‘Health should never be put in the hands of a department that is supposed to be looking after the producers' interests. Britain recognized that only after mad-cow disease.’ “Unfortunately recent regulatory reform efforts have concentrated more on the ‘paper burden’ or regulatory costs than the more fundamental flaw of governmental conflicts of interest.”
One Region, Two Futures
On 21 June 2000, AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley, spoke at the Bangor Summit on New England/Quebec/Atlantic Canada Co-operation, in Bangor Maine. He took the opportunity to tell the story of a single region, divided only by history and a common border and united by one of two possible futures.
AIMS livre une «critique alarmante» de la politique de développement régionale au Canada atlantique
Selon une nouvelle publication, trop de politique et trop peu de bon sens économique font que la région est loin d’être sur la bonne voie
AIMS releases “devastating critique” of regional development policy in Atlantic Canada
New book argues too much politics, too little economic common sense, drive region far from road to growth
Nova Scotia’s Wefare Trap
Who do you think pays the highest tax rates in Nova Scotia? Those earning over $80,000? Over $100,000? Over $250,000? It's none of the above. In fact, the highest marginal tax rate in Nova Scotia falls on poor families with kids when those families struggle to move off welfare and into paid work.
Caught in the welfare trap: Region’s highest tax rates paid by poorest Atlantic Canadians
AIMS study recommends welfare and tax reforms on eve of new National Child Benefit payment by Ottawa