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Gouvernement minoritaire: Où est l’intérêt public? – AIMS dans La Presse

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-05-16T00:00:00+00:00 May 16th, 2004|In the Media|

Les gouvernements minoritaires sont le rêve de ceux qui mangent de la politique et c'est pourquoi les intellectuels qui s'écoutent parler les adorent. Mais ils confondent leur propre plaisir avec l'intérêt public. Lorsque vous êtes le premier ministre d'un gouvernement majoritaire, chaque décision que vous prenez vous définit et définit votre gouvernement en opposition aux autres partis. Vous faites vos choix et votre réputation se bâtit en conséquence. L'opposition vous critique en raison de ces choix. Elle devient connue pour les solutions de rechange qu'elle propose. Mais les gouvernements minoritaires sont toujours en train de négocier avec les autres partis en vue du prochain vote au parlement. Le maquignonnage en coulisses prospère. Les partis d'opposition obligent le gouvernement à renoncer à certaines de ses priorités au profit des leurs. Ceux qui se réjouissent à la perspective d'un gouvernement minoritaire à Ottawa devraient faire bien attention à leurs souhaits.

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Are user fees a good idea?

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 May 7th, 2004|In the Media|

Recent decisions by many governments in Canada to increase and expand user fees are coming under scrutiny. There are good arguments in favour of user fees, but that doesn’t mean that all user fees are justified, or that the ones that are justified are set at the right level. Do these fees accurately reflect the value of the services provided or are they simply another cash grab by governments that cannot rein in their spending? In his weekly column in the Chronicle Herald and Times and Transcript, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley examines user fees and why the people who pay them should demand transparency and accountability in the fee-setting process.

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Lead or be squeezed” – AIMS author Gordon Weil to NB Power

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 April 30th, 2004|In the Media|

NB Power must accelerate its restructuring or risk becoming a victim of regional power integration according to Gordon Weil, author of the AIMS paper The Atlantica Power Market: A plan for joint action. In addition to writing the paper, Mr. Weil, a U.S. energy consultant, has participated in several AIMS events focusing on regional integration. In an interview with the Moncton Times and Transcript’s Daniel McHardie that reflected the themes he has developed in his work for AIMS, Mr. Weil says, "N.B. Power has been very averse to becoming involved on the U.S. side of the border for fear of U.S. regulation. In effect they are now getting the effects of U.S. regulation without having a role to play." He added however that NB Power could start reversing the negative impact on its revenue by positioning itself as a larger player in the regional transmission system.

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First Nation Innovation – AIMS on native healthcare initiative

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 April 21st, 2004|In the Media|

Canada's first aboriginal-run MRI clinic is scheduled to open on Muskeg Lake Cree Nation land, in east Saskatoon, in the spring of 2005. Clinics on reserves are not subject to provincial legislation, and First Nations are carefully examining the unique legal status this confers. This may create an opportunity for a tectonic policy shift in Canadian medicare as First Nations open a crack in the crust of the public sector healthcare monopoly. In this commentary for the National Post, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley says we may be witnessing the birth of a parallel system that will not only provide superior healthcare choices to Canadians, but may indeed ensure the sustainability of the public system.

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Equalization Can Be Reformed: The constitution is no excuse

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 April 21st, 2004|In the Media|

Equalization’s intention is to ensure that Canadians, wherever they live, have access to reasonable levels of public services, like health care and schools and roads, without having to endure ruinous levels of taxation to pay for them. But the unintended consequence of these transfers from Ottawa is that equalization catches recipient provinces in a welfare trap where growth is penalized and dependence rewarded. Those who support it say equalization is constitutionally entrenched, so live with it. But, what does the constitution really say and does it stand in the way of meaningful reform? In his regular column in the Chronicle Herald and Times & Transcript, Brian Lee Crowley points out that, based on history, present practice, and the weak language entrenching equalization, it is hard to see why the constitution should be a serious bar to a cleverly designed equalization reform.

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Une nouvelle avenue: L’ouverture d’une clinique IRM dirigée par des autochtones pourrait remettre en cause notre régime de santé

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 April 18th, 2004|In the Media|

La première clinique d'imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) dirigée par des autochtones doit ouvrir ses portes sur le territoire de la nation crie de Muskeg Lake, à l'est de Saskatoon, au printemps 2005. Cette occasion convient parfaitement aux entrepreneurs d'un bout à l'autre du pays qui cherchent à trouver une faille dans le régime d'assurance-maladie qui permettra l'émergence d'une solution de rechange sous forme d'un secteur privé de soins de santé. Dans sa chronique régulière dans La Presse, le plus grand quotidien de langue française de l’Amérique du Nord, le président de AIMS, Brian Lee Crowley observe que, «Seule la venue d'une véritable concurrence, par laquelle les patients auront vraiment le choix de l'endroit où ils pourront bénéficier de soins de santé et par qui ils seront dispensés, est capable de sauver le système public.»

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A tide of red ink erodes services in Canada

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 April 17th, 2004|In the Media|

A change in government and an ensuing public sector labour dispute brought into focus the desperate fiscal situation facing Newfoundland and Labrador in the spring of 2004. But Newfoundland and Labrador are not alone. Canada's 10 provinces collectively registered budget shortfalls of more than $4 billion last year the weakest financial performance in six years, according to the Dominion Bond Rating Service. In this article in the International Herald Tribune, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley attributed some of this poor performance to the fact, "We have created a health care system that is a voracious devourer of every public dollar we have."

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Transforming equalization

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 April 16th, 2004|In the Media|

Last month's federal budget renewed one of Canada's most sacred policy cows -- our $10-billion equalization program -- for another five years. The last of a three-part series looks at how equalization can be transformed.

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Tasmania’s devil is in the details

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 April 15th, 2004|In the Media|

Last month's federal budget renewed one of Canada's most sacred policy cows -- our $10-billion equalization program -- for another five years. The second of a three-part series looks at how equalization doesn't work Down Under.

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Equalization buys big government

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 April 14th, 2004|In the Media|

Last month's federal budget renewed one of Canada's most sacred policy cows -- our $10-billion equalization program -- for another five years. The first of a three-part series looks at how equalization locks "have-not" provinces into enormous welfare traps.

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