Markets, lower taxes the solution on healthcare queues
By Matthew Lau (AIMS Author) Without serious government course correction, Canada is headed for an ill-fated healthcare squeeze. The senior dependency ratio in Canada – which is the ratio of people 65 years and older relative to the working-age population (15 to 64 years old) – is projected to rise from 25 per cent today to around 40 per cent [...]
Resource Revenue in Atlantic Canada
A study by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies was mentioned in a CBC NL article discussing the possibility of a global economy in Newfoundland. The article states how "the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies demonstrated long ago that resource royalties, which go into government coffers, are often wasted on vote buying and vanity megaprojects." Read the article here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/pov-economy-culture-1.5144526 [...]
Alex Whalen in the CH on Canada Post’s letter delivery monopoly
AIMS Vice President, Alex Whalen, was quoted in an article for the Chronicle Herald on Canada Post's existing monopoly: “This is not the first time we’ve seen a proposal like this from Canada Post,” he says. “There is already the distortion caused by their existing monopoly on letter delivery. Now, this privilege is closing in on them because fewer and [...]
Is Canada’s food industry facing death by regulation?
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Food industries need to be regulated. But the delicate balance between protecting the public and supporting industrial growth might have reached a tipping point in Canada. In the Western world, governments successfully play the anti-business card by implementing regulations so consumers believe someone is looking out for them. But governments are also flirting with [...]
Education schools should follow the evidence and drop the fads
By Michael Zwaagstra (AIMS Fellow) In 1933, the retiring president of Harvard University, Lawrence Lowell, famously stated that his university’s school of education was “a kitten that ought to be drowned.” Of course, university presidents wouldn’t talk like this today, but Lowell was far from the only scholar to hold education schools in such low repute--and for good reason. In [...]
Canada can only lose in a trade war with China
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Canola was first, and now peas and soybeans. It was highly predictable. And given how things have progressed over the last five months, the situation can only escalate. The Canadian government has pledged to help farmers affected by our epic spat with China. But other than offering cash or support to develop new markets [...]