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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.

The Perils of Being a Poor Region in a Rich and Frightened Country

By | November 24th, 2005|Op-ed|

AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley took advantage of his invitation to present the Canada Seminar at Harvard University to examine existing federal public policy. He suggests Atlantic Canada has not caught up with the rest of Canada, not because of a lack of money, but because of the massive amounts of money thrown at it by Ottawa. In this Commentary, based on his Canada Seminar to Harvard University, Crowley explains how "bad politics and good intentions destroyed the Atlantic Canadian economy and what that tells us about Canada and its future".

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Halifax: The hinge between new global trading partners and the International Northeast

By | September 19th, 2005|Op-ed|

This commentary will make you rethink what you know of geography. It places Halifax as the first stop for marine container traffic from Asia. It explains why the Port of Halifax is so pivotal to Atlantica.

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A Tale of Two Cities: How to put the International Northeast at the centre of the new global trading patterns.

By | August 4th, 2005|Op-ed|

The Atlantica message is being heard by some of the most influential policy makers, business leaders and academics on both sides of the border. This commentary is based on a talk AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley made in Connecticut at the invitation of the Council of State Governments.

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Carpe Diem: The modest fleeting opportunity LNG represents for Atlantic Canada.

By | June 27th, 2005|Op-ed|

It's heralded as the next big development. The next economic saviour for Atlantic Canada. It's Liquified Natural Gas. There are three proposals on the books for this latest entry in the region's energy projects. In a talk to the Canadian Institute's LNG/CNG Conference, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley says the window of opportunity is closing. He points out Atlantic Canadian jurisdictions have to move quickly and cooperatively, the lack of which have sunk a few "economic saviours" in the past.

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We Can’t Go On Like This.

By | June 3rd, 2005|Op-ed|

In this talk to the Annual Meeting of the Canada-Sweden Business Association in Stockholm, Sweden, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley provides a picture of the health care demands of the future. He suggests that as the Baby Boom generation ages, it will demand changes in the provision of health care services.

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We Can’t Go On Like This

By | June 2nd, 2005|Policy Papers|

In this talk to the Annual Meeting of the Canada-Sweden Business Association in Stockholm, Sweden, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley provides a picture of the health care demands of the future. He suggests that as the Baby Boom generation ages, it will demand changes in the provision of health care services.

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Students Without Borders, Universities Without Illusions

By | May 12th, 2005|Op-ed|

They may not have liked what they heard, but the chairs of universities certainly sat up and listened. In one of the keynote addresses to the annual conference of National University Board Chairs and Secretaries (NAUBCS), AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley provided insight to the universities of the future. He warned the guardians of Canada’s post-secondary education that they need to think outside the sacred, but physical, halls of academia.

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Equalization: The Help that Hurts

By | April 21st, 2005|Op-ed|

The very program established to help the poorer provinces in Confederation is actually doing the opposite. In this speech to a luncheon crowd in Winnipeg, Manitoba, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley explains that equalization is actually keeping the recipient provinces from making their own way in the world.

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AIMS’ Atlantica Concept is a Hit in Buffalo, New York.

By | February 24th, 2005|Op-ed|

The AIMS concept called Atlantica is a trade corridor reaching from Halifax to Buffalo - the International Northeast Economic Region - and it can change the prosperity of the region while improving the access of the North American heartland to emerging international trade patterns. It would appear business and community leaders in Buffalo, New York agree, after hearing details of Atlantica from AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley. He explained to a breakfast meeting of political leaders and a luncheon crowd at the Rotary Club of Buffalo how the northeast trade corridor from Halifax to Buffalo would benefit all communities along the route. Both events attracted the influential leaders of the community interested in learning more about Atlantica.

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a l’invitation de Radio-Canada et La Presse, AIMS répond à la question, “A-t-on les moyens du modèle québécois?”

By | December 2nd, 2004|Op-ed|

Quel modèle pour le Québec? Voilà la question posée par Radio-Canada et La Presse lors de leur conférence conjoint à Montréal tenue mercredi le 1er décembre 2004. Invité par les organisateurs à participer à un panel intitlué "A-t-on les moyens du modèle québécois?", le président de AIMS, Brian Lee Crowley a répondu, "Oui. Mais la question plus fondamentale, c'est est-ce que les Québécois en ont pour leur argent?"

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