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."