Manitoba’s Equalization Payments Hit by Economic Downturn (Report)
Manitoba’s share of federal transfer payments has shrunk dramatically over the last five years and it’s mostly Ontario’s fault. A study released today by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies looked at federal equalization payments made to four small, historic "have-not" provinces–Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
An Opportunity to Improve NB Power
AIMS Senior Fellow in Electricity Policy Gordon Weil outlines a number of ways in which the provincial government of New Brunswick could improve that province's utility.
Time to Adjust Our Appetite
The Telegraph Journal editorial board discusses an AIMS publication analyzing the declining share of equalization payments to New Brunswick and urges the government in that province to "
New Brunswick Losing Share of Equalization Pie
Telegraph Journal reporter Chris Morris discusses an AIMS publication that analyzes the declining share of equalization payments to Atlantic Canada.
Declining Equalization Payments, Fiscal Challenges in PEI and New Brunswick
AIMS Director of Research Ben Eisen, policy analyst Shaun Fantauzzo, and UNB economist David Murrell discuss PEI's fiscal challenges in the context of declining equalization payments in their latest opinion pieces featured in the Guardian and Telegraph Journal.
MEDIA RELEASE: STUDY SHOWS DECLINING EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS TO SMALL “HAVE-NOT” PROVINCES
Halifax, NS and Winnipeg, MB (12 November 2014): Today, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) released a new paper documenting a recent decline in equalization payments (relative to provincial GDP) to Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. In “Declining Equalization Payments and Fiscal Challenges in the Small ‘Have-not’ [...]