In a speech before the Atlantic Provinces Chamber of Commerce, May 29, 2004, and September 1, 2004, in Bangor, Maine, and using a series of illustrative maps, Dr. Crowley outlines the historical impediments to economic integration and charts a new course for the success of the international northeast economic zone.
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley's remarks to The Public Review Panel examining issues related to the possible lifting of the offshore oil and gas exploration and development moratorium on Canada's west coast.
Atlantica is at the intersection of three powerful trade relationships, NAFTA, EU-NAFTA and the so-called Suez Express route from Asia. Atlantica’s continental neighbourhood is also now dominated by three increasingly coherent and powerful economic regions with well-defined and consciously pursued economic interests: the Quebec City to Windsor Corridor, the New Atlantic Triangle and Appalachia. For the International Northeast to flourish amidst these powerful dynamics, three imperatives beckon to the region: a transport intensive economy; continental integration; and coordinated efforts focusing on regional coherence building. In this keynote talk to the AGM of the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley laid out a new conceptual framework for thinking about the International Northeast Economic Region, or Atlantica.
In 2003, automobile insurance became a "hot button" topic, threatening to bring down provincial governments in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is an issue full of emotion, but in this submission to the New Brunswick Government Select Committee on Public Automobile Insurance, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley argues that the idea of putting car insurance into the public sector, is not be all its cracked up to be.
Lots of people feel that, while immigration is all very well and good for Toronto and Vancouver, it is quite inappropriate for us because of our unemployment. While they don't put it this way, they really believe that opportunity is a zero-sum game, that if someone comes here and does well, it has been at the expense of someone else.
It is a good thing Canadian health care is not a patient in the health care system. Thirty years of poor policy decisions have caused it irreparable harm and the wait time for the appropriate corrective procedure seems to boarder on infinite. This Commentary by AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley exposes the most commonly held misconceptions about health care in Canada.
Momentum builds in the Atlantica project as a variety of initiatives bring people together from both sides of the Canada - US border
Insurance, particularly auto insurance, has been a “hot” issue over the past year. Emotions have been running high and that leaves people vulnerable to the latest scheme that sounds like it will solve the problem with the wave of a magic wand.
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley opening of the first Maine Maritime Business Summit including introduction of featured speakers.
Drug companies will invest in finding the next miracle treatment only if they can recoup their expenses. The search for disease-defeating and life-prolonging drugs is hugely expensive. Industry estimates that it costs around $1-billion to develop each major new drug. Can Canada afford to continue selling cheap drugs and how long will the United States tolerate Canadians taking a free ride on their research dollars? In a commentary carried in various US newspapers and the well regarded web forum TechCentralStation.com, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that research won't occur unless someone is willing to pay for it. That someone has been the American consumer.