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Alberta could be Hamm’s ally

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2001-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 February 9th, 2001|In the Media|

Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm has taken his 'Campaign for Fairness' to Ottawa, where he is calling for a better deal for the province on equalisation and natural resource revenues, among other things. But according to AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley and Alberta commentator Ken Boessenkool, Premier Hamm is neglecting the potential for collaboration on these issues with other provinces, such as oil-rich Alberta. In this National Post op-ed piece, Boessenkool and Crowley lay out a strategy for dealing with natural resource revenues that would strengthen all the provinces, while helping equalisation-receiving provinces off dependence on federal transfers. Publication: NP, 9 February 2001

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Three Views of Atlantic Canada’s Future

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 December 30th, 2000|In the Media|

In the December edition of Policy Options magazine, the cover story was the future of Atlantic Canada. Editor William Watson interviewed AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley, as well as APEC President Elizabeth Beale and MUN economist Wade Locke on their policy prescriptions for the region.

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Don’t be railroaded on issue of urban transit

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 December 20th, 2000|In the Media|

ACCORDING to the HRM's new mayor, Peter Kelly, using existing rail lines to create a light rail transit system is the way of the future. Even though ridership today would be extremely low, he argues that now is the time to build. As people realize the joys of light rail transit, in his view, they will progressively abandon their cars. A line to Bedford will, in a few years' time, be a godsend, as the traffic on the Bedford Highway, for example, becomes even more unbearable. If the mayor's assumptions about light rail were correct, the picture he paints of the future of urban transit would be an attractive one. But, alas, he has his facts quite wrong, and his vision of an urban transit idyll is, in fact, a costly and inefficient nightmare. Publication: CHH, December 20, 2000

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How not to defend Canada’s interests in the US

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 December 6th, 2000|In the Media|

At a speech on his first foreign foray since the election, Mr. Chretien made not one, not two, but three blunders, according to AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley. The Prime Minister damaged Canada's interests, risked harming our relations with our biggest trading partner and ally, and displayed a stunning ignorance of current American politics.

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Health care debate, heal thyself

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 November 22nd, 2000|In the Media|

AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley questions the quality of the health care debate during the federal election campaign. At a time when all the indicators show us a medicare system with unsustainable patterns of spending growth, and new trends are about to hit that will force up spending again, the federal party leaders are still insisting on focussing the debate on side issues like whether people are queue jumping or where party leaders have got their health care. Publication: CHH, November 22, 2000

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The impossible game

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 October 31st, 2000|In the Media|

Both Brian Tobin and Stockwell Day have been wooing Atlantic Canadians with promises to end the anti-development bias of the federal equalisation programme. In an op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that they're on the right track, but neither has gone nearly far enough in their plans to fix equalisation's perverse effects.

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Atlantic Canada Should Aim For Regional Pwr Mkt-Thinktank

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-10-27T00:00:00+00:00 October 27th, 2000|In the Media|

Here is the Dow Jones News Service report on Tom Adams' keynote speech at Plugging in Atlantic Canada.

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Water export bans all wet

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2000-10-25T00:00:00+00:00 October 25th, 2000|In the Media|

About 80,000 cubic meters of fresh water flows out of Canada every second and into the ocean or across the border. Taking some small part of it and selling it for a good price hardly seems high treason. After all, every barrel of oil and pound of zinc Canada produces and sells is gone forever. Yet those businesses are perfectly respectable, while realizing some economic benefit from a properly managed renewable resource like water, is today thought to be profoundly unCanadian.

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