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Dr. Brian Lee Crowley

About Brian Lee Crowley

Dr. Brian Lee Crowley is the current Managing Director of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), and the first President of AIMS. He is a best-selling author, frequent commentator and columnist, and speaker. A former professor at Dalhousie University, Dr. Crowley led the formation of AIMS in the 1990s and remained President for most of the intervening years until founding MLI in 2010.

Pulling Politics out of Power, AIMS in Atlantic Progress

By | October 15th, 2001|Op-ed|

In a thought provoking article in Atlantic Progress, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley challenges the preconception that deregulation in the electricity industry seems to have created nothing but grief for those who have tried it, and the benefits seem elusive. The old local monopolies that serve captive provincial markets have brought stability of supply and reasonable reliability of service. For Crowley, safety does not lie in resisting the changes that are sweeping the electricity industry, but in steady deliberate movement toward deregulation, in order to capture the technological, economic and industrial benefits that it offers. Reform of the electricity market is an idea whose time has come, and the Maritimes, like the rest of the country, have a great deal to gain from it. Publication: Atlantic Progress, October, 2001

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The future of work in our coastal communities

By | September 27th, 2001|Op-ed|

In his address to the Annual Convenetion of the Fisheries Council of Canada, September 27, 2001, Brian Lee Crowley explores the ramifications of population change in Atlantic Canada, the need to reform social programmes like welfare and EI, and the need to escape a common property model for fishery resource management.

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Trying times reinforce common US-Canada bond

By | September 12th, 2001|Op-ed|

A brief statement by AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley on the tragic events of September 11, 2001

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Bastiat: The man who saw what wasn’t there

By | September 7th, 2001|Op-ed|

In a recent piece published in the Financial Post, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, pays tribute to one of the pioneers of clear thinking economics. Frédéric Bastiat, whose bicentennial is celebrated this year, was a brilliant French writer, polemicist and economist of the mid-nineteenth century who often challenged the well-intentioned actions of government by exploring their hidden consequences.

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Social Policy in the New Economy

By | May 23rd, 2001|Op-ed|

The annual retreat of senior managers of the federal Department of Finance took place in Cornwall, Ontario this year on the theme of Social Policy in the New Economy. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was a member of a panel of four policy thinkers from across the country who were asked to come and set the stage for the group's deliberations.

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Incentives Matter: Equalization and Nova Scotia

By | April 21st, 2001|Op-ed|

The Liberal Party of Nova Scotia invited AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley to address its 2001 AGM on the question of whether or not the current federal equalisation programme is "fair" to Nova Scotia and what changes might be appropriate to improve the programme. In his talk, Crowley argued that the incentives implicit in equalisation had undermined provincial efforts to develop the local economy, frustrated efforts to make greater progress on achieving fiscal discipline, and damaged the link between taxing and spending which is at the heart of democratic accountability.

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Municipal amalgamations in Atlantic Canada and beyond: Why amalgamate?

By | March 29th, 2001|Op-ed|

AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley on the Canadian and international experience with municipal amalgamations. He reviews the impressive quantities of research now documenting the failure to the Annual Meeting of the BC Municipal Finance Authority.

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The Private Foundations of Canada

By | February 13th, 2001|Op-ed|

The Private Foundations of Canada, the umbrella group representing private charitable foundations in Canada, recently held a Members' Seminar in Toronto where the theme was "Engaging the public in the public policy process". AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley was invited to address the Seminar about the challenges facing democracy.

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How Politics and the Economy Affect Risk Management and Ethics in Health Care

By | November 24th, 2000|Op-ed|

AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley addressed the Nova Scotia Association for Quality in Health Care describing the significant impact political and economic considerations have on the central decisions about the design and delivery of health care in Canada.

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The coming revolution in local government

By | August 31st, 2000|Op-ed|

AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley's lecture at the 2000 session of the Summer University at Aix-en-Provence.

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