Leçons irlandaises: Favoriser la dépendance n’est pas la recette assurée pour l’indépendance.
Brian Lee Crowley, président de Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, écrit "Je n'avais jamais songé aux leçons que le Québec pouvait tirer de l'expérience irlandaise. Mon institut a célébré dernièrement son 10e anniversaire par un banquet à Saint-Jean, au Nouveau-Brunswick. Notre conférencier invité était Garrett FitzGerald, l'un des grands architectes des réformes politiques qui ont transformé la République irlandaise en " tigre celtique ". En écoutant l'ancien premier ministre irlandais exposer si éloquemment comment la République d'Irlande avait échappé au sort de l'Irlande du Nord par un simple accident temporel, je ne pouvais m'empêcher de penser au mouvement souverainiste au Québec."
Small businesses spur Nova Scotia’s job growth; Jobless rate falling steadily Lower in Halifax than Toronto
When Kelly Toughill of the Toronto Star wrote a story about the graudal economic turnaround of Nova Scotia, she turned to the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies for insight.
Guest Commentary: A Win for Health Care Consumers
The Supreme Court of Canada decision on health care spurred commentaries across the country. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg called it a win for health care consumers.
Planting the seeds: A solution for NB’s forest industry.
The New Brunswick forestry industry may soon be starving for wood. In his fortnightly column in the Moncton Times-Transcript, Brian Lee Crowley explains the government needs to loosen its hold on crown land. Otherwise the forestry industry, a major economic generator for the province, will falter and fail.
Gas regulation is a tangled and costly web of deception for consumers.
The Nova Scotia government started on its road to gas re-regulation to appease consumers indignate over gasoline at a dollar plus a litre. But as Brian Lee Crowley explains in his fortnightly column in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the road has veered off course and now heads to even higher gas prices for consumers.
Port of Halifax announces new Asian trade deal
The Atlantica concept envisions the International Northeast as a corridor linking the new Asian seaborne trade with major North American markets. It is not just a theory or a concept. On July 1, a wide range of retail goods including apparel, electronics and furniture set sail for Halifax using an all water route from Asia and the Indian Sub-continent via the Suez Canal. This announcement by the Port of Halifax and the Canadian Retail Shippers’ Association (CRSA) is a major contribution to making Halifax and the International Northeast a distribution hub for goods using the Suez route to reach eastern and central North America from Asia. If the Port of Halifax performs well in this new role as distribution centre, this decision by the CRSA could be the first of many of its kind.