FOUNDING PRESIDENT RETURNS TO AIMS
Brian Lee Crowley back from Globe and Mail
Debt and taxes can be pared
In 1999, AIMS President Don Cayo writes, "I want tax cuts. I want important services maintained at - or brought back up to – a decent level. I want mountainous debts reduced so many more tax dollars can start funding services and stop paying interest. And I want it all now! I admit I’m dreaming – at least the part about wanting it all now."
Subsidizing offshore exploration
In this article for the Monton Times & Transcript and the Halifax Daily News in 1999, Fred McMahon writes, "Count on it - no matter how badly Nova Scotia messes up the offshore, companies will bid for exploration rights where there's money to be made, and politicians will take credit for it."
The middle is better than the end of the line
Don Cayo on why the roads in New England are one of the most serious obstacles to growth in Atlantic Canada.
Good policy takes time to bear fruit
In April of 1999 Don Cayo writes "Some government people in New Brunswick are trying to claim responsibility for the "good" news in a report published just over a week ago by AIMS, the think-tank I run. And some people in the Nova Scotia government are trying to duck responsibility for "bad" news in the same report."
Meaningless law masks failure to act
Don Cayo writes about Camille theriault's "health care guarentee" legislation
Reforming the Universities
Under a competitive regime, the marketplace itself will determine an efficient outcome for the post-secondary education system in Canada.
Productivity and taxes
You may think of Mississippi as a desperately poor U.S. state, and it is. On almost all measures of prosperity and economic success, it ranks at the bottom or very near the bottom of all U.S. states. Canadians' after tax income is lower than Mississippians. Of course, we have superior schools and health care, among many other things, but if Mississippi continues to get richer, and Canada poorer, that too may change. Rich Mississippians will find it easier to fund these services than poor Canadians.
Why do failures overshadow the many success stories?
Don Cayo examines the gap between the headlines and the realities of economic growth in Atlantic Canada.