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A toast to liquor privatization

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 August 30th, 2000|In the Media|

Nove Scotia should press ahead with its proposed privatisation of the province's government liquor monopoly if Alberta's experience is any guide, says AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley. "... here's the trade-off we'll be facing if the government follows through on its promises: four times the employment, five times the product selection, lower liquor prices, many new tax-paying businesses, longer service hours. In other words, a consumer and taxpayer bonanza versus preserving a handful of protected jobs that pay way over the odds at the expense of consumers and taxpayers throughout the province." Publication: CHH, August 30, 2000.

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The ‘haves’ versus the ‘have-nots’

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 August 26th, 2000|In the Media|

All four Atlantic Premiers are lobbying hard for additional transfers to their provinces. With low population growth and with increased cost of providing basic health and education services, the premiers tried to get the Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST) increased to Atlantic Canadian provinces. Their failure, reports Peter Fenwick, is a sign that the rest of Canada is tiring of transferring money that only props up the political regimes of the Atlantic Premiers. With the Canadian Alliance committed to ending ACOA and with the federal Liberals trashing the Canada Jobs Fund, in future the Atlantic Provinces will have to do more with their own resources. . Publication: ETSJ, August 26, 2000.

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Newfoundland Journalist and Former Politician Becomes New AIMS Communications Director

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 August 25th, 2000|Media Releases|

Peter Fenwick to be responsible for co-ordinating groundbreaking research

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Vision of a two-tier Canada mean-spirited

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 August 20th, 2000|In the Media|

Nationally syndicated columnist Richard Gwyn attacks the central Canadian thinking behind "lazy" Maritimers" comments. In doing so he quotes from Fred McMahon's latest analysis of Atlantic Canada "Retreat From Growth ." Calling it an excellent analysis of the effect of subsidies and grants on the development of Atlantic Canada, Gwyn endorses McMahon's argument that a normal policy regieme rather than distorting subsidies would have been preferable. Gwyn is the latest in a series of columnists and editorial writers to base their analysis of the problems facing Atlantic Canada on the recently published AIMS book.

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Creating jobs, at maximum cost

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 August 17th, 2000|In the Media|

In an editorial in the Financial Post, noted economic commentator Neville Nankivell quotes extensively from AIMS' new book, "Retreat from Growth" to bolster his argument that government funded job creation schemes are costly and ineffective.

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Mr. Mykytyshyn’s mistake

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 August 16th, 2000|In the Media|

According to an editorial in the Globe and Mail, former Canadian Alliance pollster and advisor John Mykytyshyn would have avoided making his ill-advised comments on Atlantic Canadians if only he had read the Institute's last book, Retreat from Growth. The Globe reached a very AIMS-like conclusion: Proposing to wean the region off federal subsidies is a legitimate and, depending on the approach, commendable plank. To slip from that into wholesale slandering of Atlantic Canadians — writing them off as inveterate layabouts because many of them have accepted and grown accustomed to the money on offer — is to mistake the patient for the virus. Mr. Day must hope that, unlike Mr. Mykytyshyn, other Alliance members can tell the difference.

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AIMS On-Line for August 2000 – Special Edition

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 August 14th, 2000|Newsletters|

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

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Past spending policy has damaged Canada’s unity and economy

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 August 10th, 2000|In the Media|

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.

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AIMS On-Line for August 2000

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-08-07T00:00:00+00:00 August 7th, 2000|Newsletters|

Here is a brief overview of just some of AIMS' activities and publications to mid-July

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Economies open to trade are ones that will prosper

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 July 19th, 2000|In the Media|

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.

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