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Spinning the Economic Story

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 August 29th, 2001|In the Media|

In this piece, Daily News columnist Parker Barss Donham takes aim at the position of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies on equalization. Donham responds aggressively to the ideas put forward in two recent AIMS papers, papers that have prompted a debate in the national press on the merits of reform to the current equalization system. Arguing that equalization is achieving its intended goal of delivering reasonably comparable services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation Donham dismisses the idea that equalization has any relationship to economic development or the slow rate of growth in Atlantic Canada.

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AIMS Atlantica initiative catches attention of National Post

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 August 18th, 2001|In the Media|

The potential economic and social benefits that Atlantica offers to Atlantic Canada are highlighted in a recent article in the National Post. In exploring efforts to improve the free flow of people and goods across the Canada-US border, the National Post looks at AIMS' recent Pugwash Thinkers Lodge conference on the Atlantica concept - a cross-border region embracing Atlantic Canada, much of New England, northern New York state and Quebec's Eastern Townships. AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley is quoted in the article as saying "Open borders have signalled a renaissance in Europe's previously neglected regions. A very similar development can and will happen across Canada, and there are few places for which it can be more beneficial than Atlantic Canada." As the National Post reports, elected representatives of the people of Atlantica are very much aware of the benefits of closer ties across the border.

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ACOA “ghetto-izes” Atlantic Canada

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 August 18th, 2001|In the Media|

In a review of ACOA spending in Newfoundland published by The Telegram in St. John's AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley, comments on the lack of a need for small specialized regional agencies to manage federal investment in needed infrastructure. Crowley believes, for example, that Atlantic Canada should receive support for its universities through Industry Canada and Human Resources Development Canada rather than through a special agency that "ghetto-izes" the region. Publication: ETSJ, August 18, 2001

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Daily News says AIMS papers are a real education about equalization

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 August 14th, 2001|In the Media|

In his 14 August piece, Money editor John Macleod of the Daily News argues that the debate on equalization is not simply about begging for more federal cash. Macleod encourages anyone interested in having a reasonable understanding of this issue to go to the AIMS site and review the recent studies on equalization that can be found there. Having read these studies he concludes that the debate is, rather, about the proper role of non-renewable resources within the equalization program. He points out that the federal government itself has been unable to reach a firm conclusion on how non-renewable resources and equalization go together. In fact, no fewer than ten adjustments have been made in the treatment of non-renewable resources since the equalization program was implemented.

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School Choice, AIMS and the Wall Street Journal

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-08-09T00:00:00+00:00 August 9th, 2001|In the Media|

On August 9 the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Canadian journalist and publisher Michael Taube about the value of competition and school choice for the public education system. Taube cites AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley’s comments that friendly competition between Canada’s public and private schools can only help the education marketplace and create more efficient institutions. In this context Taube discusses how Ontario and, in fact, Canada has become a leader in this innovative policy area. He applauds the Harris government for introducing tuition tax credits for parents sending their children to private school.

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AIMS authors bring Dion back into focus

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 August 1st, 2001|In the Media|

In a series of op-ed pieces in papers across the country Ken Boessenkool, Calgary based author of the AIMS paper "Taking off the Shackles: Equalization and the Development of Nonrenewable Resources in Atlantic Canada" and Brian Lee Crowley, AIMS President, again enter the national debate on equalization . The two argue that federal Intergovernmental affairs minister Stephane Dion has chosen the wrong focus in placing the discussion about equalization in the context of special treatment.

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C.D. Howe enters debate on AIMS equalization proposal

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-07-25T00:00:00+00:00 July 25th, 2001|In the Media|

The public debate initiated by two recent AIMS papers on equalization and its negative impact on economic growth in Atlantic Canada has taken yet another turn. Most commentators appear to have accepted the concept that the equalization system is due for a serious rethinking. The debate now is what to do first. Jack Mintz, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, and Arthur Andersen Professor of Taxation at the J.L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, argues in this piece from the National Post that we need to look at the entire formula for equalization. In Mintz' s view, addressing the treatment of non-renewable natural resource revenue alone carries more risks than rewards.

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Harris aims at the wrong target

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 July 23rd, 2001|In the Media|

Ontario Premier Mike Harris is exercised about inequities in the way Ottawa treats his province, and rightly so. But he should reserve his fire for the federal government, and not shoot thoughtlessly at his potential allies in the battle for fairer federal-provincial arrangements. In this piece published in the National Post, AIMS President, Brian Lee Crowley, argues that Premier Harris should support equalization reform that ends asset seizure and rewards provinces for sound development of their resources. And the Atlantic provinces need to come to the table, too, and support Ontario's demands for equitable treatment of all Canadians by federal programs such as employment insurance. Neither side should allow Ottawa to engage in its old divide and rule tactics. For both Ontario and the Atlantic provinces, the policy problem lies in Ottawa, and they should be making common cause in putting it right. Publication: NP, July 23, 2001

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Robin Hood Economics

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 July 9th, 2001|In the Media|

The national debate spurred by two recent AIMS papers – "Equalization: Milestone or Millstone?" by Roland Martin and "Taking off the Shackles: Equalization and the Development of Nonrenewable Resources in Atlantic Canada" by Ken Boessenkool – continues in the July 9 edition of Canadian Business magazine. In his commentary, Andrew Nikiforuk takes a dim view of the current situation in relation to equalization and offshore royalties and argues that, to be equal, Nova Scotia must be master in its own house. Taking a page from Boessenkool’s paper, Nikiforuk concludes it is time for Ottawa to "…unshackle the provinces and get smarter about giving money away and clawing it back."

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Equalization penalizes success

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 July 9th, 2001|In the Media|

The July 9 edition of Maclean's magazine includes a column by Mary Janigan that explores the negative impacts of equalization and looks for solutions. She finds them in two recently released papers by AIMS - "Equalization: Milestone or Millstone?" by Roland Martin and "Taking off the Shackles: Equalization and the Development of Nonrenewable Resources in Atlantic Canada" by Ken Boessenkool. Quoting both authors, Janigan looks at the positive impacts, for Ottawa and the provinces, of eliminating nonrenewable resource revenue from the equalization formula and allowing the provinces to keep that revenue to spur sustainable growth.

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