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The ‘haves’ versus the ‘have-nots’

By | August 26th, 2000|In the Media|

All four Atlantic Premiers are lobbying hard for additional transfers to their provinces. With low population growth and with increased cost of providing basic health and education services, the premiers tried to get the Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST) increased to Atlantic Canadian provinces. Their failure, reports Peter Fenwick, is a sign that the rest of Canada is tiring of transferring money that only props up the political regimes of the Atlantic Premiers. With the Canadian Alliance committed to ending ACOA and with the federal Liberals trashing the Canada Jobs Fund, in future the Atlantic Provinces will have to do more with their own resources. . Publication: ETSJ, August 26, 2000.

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Vision of a two-tier Canada mean-spirited

By | August 20th, 2000|In the Media|

Nationally syndicated columnist Richard Gwyn attacks the central Canadian thinking behind "lazy" Maritimers" comments. In doing so he quotes from Fred McMahon's latest analysis of Atlantic Canada "Retreat From Growth ." Calling it an excellent analysis of the effect of subsidies and grants on the development of Atlantic Canada, Gwyn endorses McMahon's argument that a normal policy regieme rather than distorting subsidies would have been preferable. Gwyn is the latest in a series of columnists and editorial writers to base their analysis of the problems facing Atlantic Canada on the recently published AIMS book.

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Creating jobs, at maximum cost

By | August 17th, 2000|In the Media|

In an editorial in the Financial Post, noted economic commentator Neville Nankivell quotes extensively from AIMS' new book, "Retreat from Growth" to bolster his argument that government funded job creation schemes are costly and ineffective.

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Mr. Mykytyshyn’s mistake

By | August 16th, 2000|In the Media|

According to an editorial in the Globe and Mail, former Canadian Alliance pollster and advisor John Mykytyshyn would have avoided making his ill-advised comments on Atlantic Canadians if only he had read the Institute's last book, Retreat from Growth. The Globe reached a very AIMS-like conclusion: Proposing to wean the region off federal subsidies is a legitimate and, depending on the approach, commendable plank. To slip from that into wholesale slandering of Atlantic Canadians — writing them off as inveterate layabouts because many of them have accepted and grown accustomed to the money on offer — is to mistake the patient for the virus. Mr. Day must hope that, unlike Mr. Mykytyshyn, other Alliance members can tell the difference.

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Past spending policy has damaged Canada’s unity and economy

By | August 10th, 2000|In the Media|

In an op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail, Toronto-based analyst John Koopman analyses the impact on Canadian unity and the economy of 25 years of unbalanced tax and spending policy. He draws on AIMS' work to examine the impact of these policies on Atlantic Canada.

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Economies open to trade are ones that will prosper

By | July 19th, 2000|In the Media|

AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that Atlantic Canada's economic future lies in large part in building a new cross border region with New England: Atlantica.

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Old ways suit Ottawa’s needs, not region’s

By | July 5th, 2000|In the Media|

AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley examines the questions that no one is asked about the Prime Minister's July 2000 announcement of $700-million in spending in the Atlantic region. Here's an extract: "What exactly is the problem that Ottawa is trying to fix? By making this announcement, Ottawa drives home yet again, both inside and outside the region, the message that we're a "have-not" region. Unless we get a handout from taxpayers in other parts of the country, we're going nowhere and, worst of all, that we're failures at the high-tech game. But none of these things is true."

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Ottawa’s Atlantic schemes are coming up empty

By | July 2nd, 2000|In the Media|

In his monthly column in The Globe and Mail, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley analyses the recent announcement by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of a new $700-million federal programme for Atlantic Canada. Publication: G&M, July 2, 2000.

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Nova Scotia’s Wefare Trap

By | June 18th, 2000|In the Media|

Who do you think pays the highest tax rates in Nova Scotia? Those earning over $80,000? Over $100,000? Over $250,000? It's none of the above. In fact, the highest marginal tax rate in Nova Scotia falls on poor families with kids when those families struggle to move off welfare and into paid work.

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Canada’s political leaders leave voters little choice

By | June 12th, 2000|In the Media|

In his bi-monthly column, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley ponders just what Canadians are looking for in their political leadership. Publication: CHH, June 7, 2000, SJT, June 12, 2000.

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