The Energy East Pipeline is good policy. It's needed to transport oil from Western Canadian provinces to the refinery in New Brunswick. This 12 billion dollar infrastructure project would increase pipeline and refining work and provide well paying jobs throughout our region. It would also make us less dependent on foreign oil. Pipelines [...]
Mr. Chairman and Members of the House of Commons Finance Committee, I am pleased to be here on behalf of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies to offer our viewpoint to you. There are, of course, many challenges facing the new government and, indeed, the government will want to act on them. We all understand [...]
Halifax – Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) president and CEO, Marco Navarro-Génie, announced today that John Williamson has joined the Institute to lead its research efforts throughout Atlantic Canada. Williamson’s appointment at AIMS as Vice-President of Research is effective immediately. He will be based in New Brunswick – ensuring AIMS has a prominent presence [...]
The New Brunswick budget shows that a series of tax increases and modest spending measures to tackle the province’s dire fiscal situation will not mean less provincial debt. Rather, debt will continue to grow under the fiscal plan unveiled Tuesday. To reverse course the province needs to adopt a strategy to grow its economy and [...]
Now that the 45th Davos World Economic Forum is behind us for another year, the question is: Does Davos even matter anymore? Getting 2,500 top business and political leaders together each January in a resort in Switzerland isn’t a bad idea if they can give us outsiders an idea of how the world economy will [...]
Kevin Vickers, famous for killing the Parliament Hill shooter in October 2014, was Canada’s last Sargent-at-Arms. The Sargent-at-Arms serves as custodian of the Mace, the symbol of the authority of the House. The Mace is formidable, and was originally meant as a weapon. When considering electoral reform as a means of bestowing greater authority upon [...]
Our governments in Atlantic Canada spend more money than taxpayers can afford. Overspending means too much money from taxpayers goes to paying salaries instead of funding services we really need. Atlantic Canadians pay more taxes for more government workers than the national average. That's a fact costing us almost 2 billion dollars. If [...]
Jerry Earle of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees and Richard Alexander of the Newfoundland and Labrador Employers' Council. Listen to the Full Interview HERE.
By David MacKinnon and Marco Navarro-Genie Even a brief glance at the economies of the Atlantic Region in early 2016 indicates that a time of reckoning is at hand. Deficits are growing and threaten to become solvency crises. Regional outmigration has slowed down but continues. Remittances from Western Canada are almost certainly falling rapidly. For [...]
This article appeared on CBC News. A Halifax-based advocacy group says Newfoundland and Labrador should cut the number of its employees to deal with its significant fiscal challenges. Marco Navarro-Genie, president and CEO of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, said that his group found that Newfoundland and Labrador has more public workers per capita [...]