AIMS On-Line for August 2000 – Special Edition
Today the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies is announcing a major new conference on electricity deregulation, competition and privatisation to be held in Halifax on October 27, 2000. Full details are below
Past spending policy has damaged Canada’s unity and economy
In an op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail, Toronto-based analyst John Koopman analyses the impact on Canadian unity and the economy of 25 years of unbalanced tax and spending policy. He draws on AIMS' work to examine the impact of these policies on Atlantic Canada.
AIMS On-Line for August 2000
Here is a brief overview of just some of AIMS' activities and publications to mid-July
Why doesn’t N.S. government speak up on EI reforms?
In his bi-monthly newspaper column, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley asks why doesn't the Nova Scotia government speak up on Ottawa's proposed EI reforms before it is too late? Publication: CHH, August 2, 2000.
Economies open to trade are ones that will prosper
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that Atlantic Canada's economic future lies in large part in building a new cross border region with New England: Atlantica.
Old ways suit Ottawa’s needs, not region’s
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley examines the questions that no one is asked about the Prime Minister's July 2000 announcement of $700-million in spending in the Atlantic region. Here's an extract: "What exactly is the problem that Ottawa is trying to fix? By making this announcement, Ottawa drives home yet again, both inside and outside the region, the message that we're a "have-not" region. Unless we get a handout from taxpayers in other parts of the country, we're going nowhere and, worst of all, that we're failures at the high-tech game. But none of these things is true."