Fish products and temporary foreign workers
In a Radio-Canada piece about temporary foreign workers, AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie says, "We must first address the question of local workers ... whom have not been attracted to employment." Read the piece, in French, on the Radio-Canada website.
Improving a decaying model of healthcare in Atlantic Canada
In the Charlottetown Guardian, AIMS policy analyst Jackson Doughart discusses AIMS's health forum of April 13, featuring Doctors John Ross and David Zitner. He adduces that a third of P.E.I.'s budget goes to healthcare, and that much could be done to improve the system and contain costs. Read this article on the Charlottetown Guardian website. For Atlantic Canadians, healthcare is [...]
Radio: New England Tax Comparison
Atlantic Canada competes with New England for business, which is influenced by tax rates. Let’s look at the differences. Vermont prides itself on social programs like we do, but taxes much less. Its low-income earners pay just 3.6 percent on taxable income, compared with our best rate in Newfoundland, over twice as much. For high-income earners, who can [...]
New Brunswick takes command of a sinking ship
In his Telegraph-Journal column, AIMS Vice-President of Research John Williamson criticizes the New Brunswick government for its takeover of the Naval Centre is Bas-Caraquet, which he characterizes as taking on "a sinking ship." This is not a needed infrastructure plan, but a $38-million Fredericton bailout that is destined to fail. Read this article on the Telegraph-Journal website. As details over [...]
Corporate social responsibility has gone off the rails
AIMS Senior Fellow Patrick Luciani argues in the Financial Post that today's in-vogue language about corporate social responsibilities is bunk. "Why are businesses so ashamed to admit they’re in business to make money?" he asks, when "people-before-profits is just code for increasing the costs of goods for all of us." Read this article in the Financial Post. Groucho Marx once [...]
Easier qualifying for EI payments isn’t fair, hurts our economy
In the Charlottetown Guardian, AIMS policy analyst Jackson Doughart explores the implications of federal EI changes to Prince Edward Island. Contrary to the claims of the local Coalition for Fair EI, easier access to employment insurance will hurt prospects for the economy, and for young people's prosperity, in the future. Read the piece on the Charlottetown Guardian website. P.E.I.’s Coalition [...]