Premier Brian Tobin Accepts AIMS Silver Piggy Bank Award for Province’s Fiscal Management
Denotes the second best fiscal performance in Atlantic Canada
Denotes the second best fiscal performance in Atlantic Canada
Is Brian Tobin a fiscal conservative? The idea that a premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, the poorest province in the land, is actually a careful and prudent manager of tax dollars may appear hard to swallow to many people in the rest of the country. Rightly or wrongly, people often picture the Newfoundland government as always having its hand out, bemoaning the province's victimization by outside forces, unwilling to take charge of its own fate. Yet the truth is rather different.
In December of 1999 AIMS made this submission to the Nova Scotia Fiscal Management Task Force. Getting Back to Basics examines how without serious structural changes to the way that programs are provided in Nova Scotia, the government will progressively lose its ability to deliver programs and its political decision making power.
AIMS benchmark report on the Atlantic provinces debt accumulation.
Premier Pat Binns will receive today the coveted AIMS Golden Piggy Bank Award
La croissance économique et une bonne gestion fiscale dans la région ont eu pour effet de diminuer la dette publique, qui se chiffre toutefois à 27 milliards de dollars ou 11 400 $ par personne.
Economic growth and fiscal discipline have slightly reduced the region’s burden but debt is now a record $27-billion or $11,400 for every Atlantic Canadian
Says paper demonstrates success of innovative approaches
L’institut propose une stratégie innovatrice pour repenser les programmes du secteur public.
Institute’s submission offers a strategy for innovative thinking about public sector program review