Les provinces croient qu'elles peuvent camoufler leur intention de faire main basse sur les surplus d'Ottawa derrière de grands principes en disant qu'elles veulent régler le " déséquilibre fiscal ". Mais plus on cherche ce déséquilibre, plus il apparaît illusoire.
Ottawa should turn a deaf ear to provincial demands for more money. The provinces have adequate resources at their disposal. Ottawa’s surpluses are the proper reward to the federal government of its fiscal rectitude, and while it is certainly the case that Ottawa taxes us too heavily, that is an argument for Ottawa to cut taxes, not to transfer its excess tax take to the provinces. In his regular column, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley suggests that if provinces want more money from taxpayers, they should have to raise it through taxation and be democratically accountable for that decision.
In a report released Monday, AIMS stamped Nova Scotia's 2004/2005 finances with C/C+ because of poor financial planning. "Although the province ended 2003/2004 in reasonably good fiscal health, its grade is reduced by a high-spending, tax-raising 2004/2005 budget that is hardly conducive to promoting a healthy environment for economic growth," said the report's author David Murrell, an economist at the University of New Brunswick. Read this piece from the Chronicle Herald to learn more.
On February 10, 2005 Samual Huntington was the third speaker in the Grano series. He spoke to the "Great American Myth". The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies has been a partner since the series inception.
If you sell the house to buy the groceries you will soon have neither shelter nor food. It is this simple concept that Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm has understood and applied to the $830-million that Nova Scotia is expected to immediately receive as a result of the offshore accord just signed with the federal government. In his regular column, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley applauds Premier Hamm for securing real long term gain from the sale of Nova Scotia's offshore assets and avoiding the potential economic and political pitfalls of attempting to spend or invest the $830 million.
AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley discusses important issues surrounding the prescription drug debate.
Can the problem of high prescription drug costs in the United States be solved by purchasing drugs on the Internet or with a bus trip across the Canadian border? That was the question posed during an event sponsored by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) early in February in Pasadena, California. The PRI invited AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley to address these and other important issues surrounding the prescription drug debate.
Dans sa chronique mensuelle dans La Presse, Brian Lee Crowley, président de AIMS, notait que Richard Florida, gourou à la mode de la vie urbaine, était de passage à Montréal, avec tout le brouhaha qui accompagne ordinairement une vedette des médias. Dommage que ce gars-là ne sache pas faire la différence entre la cause et l'effet dans ce qui rend une ville attrayante, dans ce qui incite les gens à vouloir y vivre. Et puisque ses idées influencent beaucoup de monde par les temps qui courent, le moment est propice pour examiner plus en profondeur ce qu'il dit.
Good quality and low-cost air links are indispensable to any plan to build the economy. This is why AIMS President Brian Crowley puts forward in his latest column a modest proposal for Ottawa to consider: Let's make Atlantic Canada a test case for open skies. Let Air Iceland and Continental and Northwest and anybody else who can meet our safety standards fly without restriction into this region. Let them pick up passengers wherever they like, and let them decide what destinations they offer to attract customers. Read the full article to see how this idea has helped Ireland, among others, turn around their struggling economy and how the concerns about protecting our “national carrier” are easily overcome.
The Beacon returns! AIMS is pleased to reintroduce this updated version of our original newsletter "The Beacon". In this inaugaural issue you will find discussions on Canada-US relations, pharmaceutical policy issues, the modernization of Newfoundland's fishery, NS tax cuts and the issue of problem gamblers.