What the east coast has to teach the west coast about offshore oil and gas
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley's remarks to The Public Review Panel examining issues related to the possible lifting of the offshore oil and gas exploration and development moratorium on Canada's west coast.
Are we running out of oil?
Are we running out of oil? A breakfast with Dr. G. Campbell Watkins
AIMS Online May 27, 2004
What the east coast has to teach the west coast about offshore oil and gas, EI and Seasonal Workers, more response to AIMS’ paper You Can Get There From Here and looks at electoral possibilities in La Presse.
EI should be phased out over 10 years
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley says seasonal workers on employment insurance should acquire new skills and find extra work in the off-season, instead of relying on federal handouts. He says the EI benefits for seasonal workers should be phased out over the next five to 10 years.
Atlantic Canada’s dole rots the soul
A cardinal rule of economics says if you subsidize something, you'll get more of it. An election-bound federal government recently announced they were adding a further $300-million of your tax dollars to subsidize seasonal work with Employment Insurance. What can we expect as a result? More such work will be created. In this column for the National Post, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley calls into question the federal government's perverse policy of making access to EI easier for seasonal workers, and extending the period of time during which they can collect benefits.
EI and Seasonal Workers: Another tragedy of every day life
American playwright Eugene O'Neil is best known for poignant tragedies of everyday life in first half of the 20th century America. Sixty years later, O'Neil's words resonate as another modern day tragedy plays out in Atlantic Canada. Recently New Brunswick MP Dominic Leblanc announced on behalf of the election-bound federal government that seasonal workers would be rewarded even more richly for not working. As Brian Lee Crowley writes in his regular column for the Halifax Chronicle Herald and Moncton Times and Transcript, who knew that O'Neil could be talking about Employment Insurance policy when he wrote "There is no present or future - only the past happening over and over again"?