POLICY PAPERS
Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth
The impact of federal spending on Atlantic Canada Author: Fred McMahon AIMS Senior Policy Analyst Table of Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Executive Summary Introduction Chapter 1: Overview: Atlantic Canada's 35 Years of Growth Chapter 2: The Remittance Region Chapter 3: Employment, ...
COMMENTARIES
Atlantic Provinces should make e-government a priority
By JACKSON DOUGHART (Policy Analyst) and JAN PAVEL (Author, e-Government in the Atlantic Provinces) • The Journal-Pioneer, 04 Oct 2016 • Charlottetown Guardian, 05 Oct 2016 The effective delivery of government services is important for individuals, families and businesses. This ...
Corporate welfare no way to run a brewery
By JOHN WILLIAMSON (Vice President of Research) • Troy Media, 04 Oct 2016 Governments and public servants are lousy at picking market winners and losers. In the case of the beer industry, consumers can get the job done. Corporate welfare ...
Empowering aboriginal communities with free markets
By JOSEPH QUESNEL (Research Fellow) • National Post, 03 Oct 2016 AIMS Research Fellow Joseph Quesnel discusses the success story of Membertou First Nation in Cape Breton, which has prospered by keeping its land holdings in the free market. By ...
Holding line on P.E.I.’s education spending
By JACKSON DOUGHART (Policy Analyst) and JOHN WILLIAMSON (Vice President of Research) • Charlottetown Guardian, 19 Sep 2016 For provincial governments, controlling spending requires discipline. But the payoff is more efficient social programs, a better public sector and a stronger ...
Education spending in New Brunswick gets an F
By JOHN WILLIAMSON (Vice President of Research) • Telegraph-Journal, 14 Sep 2016 The New Brunswick government released its budget update two weeks ago. The picture isn’t pretty. The province will borrow more money because expenditures increased faster than anticipated. Once ...
Government must push forward with Energy East process
By JACKSON DOUGHART (Policy Analyst) 12 Sep 2016 From the Charlottetown Guardian and the Journal-Pioneer. Progress on the Energy East pipeline is stalling. The National Energy Board recently cancelled a scheduled week of hearings into the project in Montreal, citing ...
It’s time to rally behind Canada’s oil and gas sector
By ROBERT ROACH (Senior Fellow) 10 Sep 2016 From Troy Media. Was Ontario's auto sector in worse shape during the global financial meltdown of 2009 than Alberta's energy patch was during the global oil glut of 2015? An internal federal ...