FOUNDING PRESIDENT RETURNS TO AIMS
Brian Lee Crowley back from Globe and Mail
Debt and taxes can be pared
In 1999, AIMS President Don Cayo writes, "I want tax cuts. I want important services maintained at - or brought back up to – a decent level. I want mountainous debts reduced so many more tax dollars can start funding services and stop paying interest. And I want it all now! I admit I’m dreaming – at least the part about wanting it all now."
Subsidizing offshore exploration
In this article for the Monton Times & Transcript and the Halifax Daily News in 1999, Fred McMahon writes, "Count on it - no matter how badly Nova Scotia messes up the offshore, companies will bid for exploration rights where there's money to be made, and politicians will take credit for it."
The middle is better than the end of the line
Don Cayo on why the roads in New England are one of the most serious obstacles to growth in Atlantic Canada.
Good policy takes time to bear fruit
In April of 1999 Don Cayo writes "Some government people in New Brunswick are trying to claim responsibility for the "good" news in a report published just over a week ago by AIMS, the think-tank I run. And some people in the Nova Scotia government are trying to duck responsibility for "bad" news in the same report."