Borderlines: Atlantic Canada and the Canada – American Border of the Future
AIMS pathbreaking conference on the importance of all facets of the Canada-US relationship
We’re headed the wrong way
In this piece from the Globe & Mail, Brian Crowley, AIMS President and co-author of the forthcoming Definitely Not the Romanow Report: Achieving Equity, Sustainability, Accountability and Consumer Empowerment in Canadian Health Care, explains why any health-care system that makes visits to a family doctor freely available but rations high-cost treatments for life-threatening ailments has it backward. He then takes aim at the soon to be released Romanow Report: “Mr. Romanow is wedded to an old paternalistic model -- one that's been overtaken by technology and by rising public expectations. It suggests experts know best which services we should get, how much they should cost, and how long we should wait. Let's tell Canadians the truth about medicare's unsustainability and involve them in making the tough choices to ensure that medicare's best features are there when we need them.” Publication: G&M, November 22 2002
Why we don’t got milk
New Brunswick was recently hauled before a dispute settlement panel under our Byzantine agreement on interprovincial trade. The New Brunswick Farm Products Commission had refused to license a Nova Scotia company, Farmers Dairy, to market its milk products in New Brunswick. Farmers, quite rightly, thought this violated New Brunswick’s commitments under the Agreement on Internal Trade, that tries to establish the apparently revolutionary principle that Canadians should be able to do business anywhere in our fair country without being discriminated against by governments. New Brunswick lost, and was ordered to rectify the problem and issue Farmers a license. In this column from the Halifax Chronicle Herald and the Moncton Times Transcript AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley describes how the delay in implementing that ruling is hurting consumers and business alike. Publication: CHH & MTT, November 20 2002
Will Canada Ever Grow Up on Defence? The Peter Pan Syndrome
Author and historian Jack Granatstein's perspective on what needs to be done to sustain the military's ability to meet domestic and international responsibilities
What should Medicare be?
Broadening the debate on healthcare services
In health care a little economics goes a LONG way
AIMS looks at how incentives influence doctors and patients