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Atlantica: Moncton’s New Neighbourhood in the Global Economy. AIMS addresses Greater Moncton Chamber’s AGM

By Brian Lee Crowley| 2016-04-04T17:35:26+00:00 May 5th, 2004|Op-ed|

Atlantica is at the intersection of three powerful trade relationships, NAFTA, EU-NAFTA and the so-called Suez Express route from Asia. Atlantica’s continental neighbourhood is also now dominated by three increasingly coherent and powerful economic regions with well-defined and consciously pursued economic interests: the Quebec City to Windsor Corridor, the New Atlantic Triangle and Appalachia. For the International Northeast to flourish amidst these powerful dynamics, three imperatives beckon to the region: a transport intensive economy; continental integration; and coordinated efforts focusing on regional coherence building. In this keynote talk to the AGM of the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley laid out a new conceptual framework for thinking about the International Northeast Economic Region, or Atlantica.

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The Provincial Welfare Trap Revisited

By Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2004-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 April 14th, 2004|Op-ed|

In 2002, AIMS, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) and the Montreal Economic Institute collaborated on AIMS’ major “Equalization Initiative”, designed to draw the attention of Canadians to the inequities, inefficiencies and perverse incentives contained within our country’s equalization program. In a series of newpaper articles and published commentary, the Frontier centre for Public Policy advances the debate, using example not only in Canada, but Sweden, Belgium and Australia.

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Newfoundland’s Showdown with its Unions

By Peter Fenwick| 2016-04-04T17:35:54+00:00 April 6th, 2004|Op-ed|

Newfoundland’s Showdown with its Unions. April 6, 2004. In a battle reminiscent of the Winnipeg general strike, close to 20,000 public service workers in Newfoundland walked off the job April 1st in the largest job action in provincial history. Hospitals, highways workers, general government workers and many school board support staff have set up picket lines from Cape Spear to Nain Labrador. Although the unions walked out over the monetary terms of a new collective agreement, the fight is more about what shape the new Newfoundland economy will take. The unions are reeling from the recently tabled budget that proposed laying off 4000 public employees over four years, an eighth of the provincial public service. And while those cuts will hurt, it is difficult to see what else the government could do.

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Self-Governing Bands and Municipal Governments: Bridging the gap

By John Weston| 2016-04-04T17:39:57+00:00 April 1st, 2004|Op-ed|

Two of the hottest topics in Canadian public policy today are the future of local government and aboriginal self-government. AIMS, which has taken a growing interest in both, is delighted to make available this important new commentary on the relationship between these two issues.

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Why not “Europeanize” healthcare?

By Brian Lee Crowley and Johan Hjertqvist| 2016-04-04T17:39:43+00:00 March 1st, 2004|Op-ed|

By opening up a European health care market where patients may travel and use the health care services they deem necessary without the permission or interference of their national health care authorities, the EU has laid the groundwork for a consumer-driven revolution in health care. How different from Canada. Here provincial bureaucrats decide if a treatment available in another province is something they will pay for, and if so, how much they will reimburse. They decide if the waiting times for various procedures are too long, and therefore whether to give permission to get those procedures elsewhere. In this commentary from the March 1, 2004 National Post AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley and Johan Hjertqvist, the director of the Health Consumer Policy Centre of Timbro in Stockholm, argue if Canadian health care consumers, who are asking for ever more authority over their health and their lives, are to succeed in getting it, Europe is showing the way.

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Save Us From City Saviours

By Patrick Luciani| 2016-04-04T17:37:18+00:00 February 3rd, 2004|Op-ed|

Over the past few years mayors, urban planners, and smart-growth and anti-suburban advocates have been arguing that wealthier cities will create investment to benefit the entire country. Civic boosters say they believe by cities keeping more of their taxes, the whole country wins. If Toronto wins, so does Truro. AIMS’ senior fellow on urban affairs asks “Do cities create wealth, or are they where most of Canada's wealth is generated?” In this commentary published in the Globe and Mail, Patrick Luciani says the distinction isn't simply a matter of economic hairsplitting.

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ACOA Watch #2 – Locking Up The Pork Barrel

By Brian Lee Crowley and Bruce Winchester| 2016-04-04T17:40:39+00:00 December 1st, 2003|Op-ed|

AIMS is releasing its second in a series of publications examining the role the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency plays in the economic development of the region. In this edition of ACOA Watch, Brian Lee Crowley and Bruce Winchester consider the recent work by Jack Mintz and Michael Smart of the C.D. Howe Institute "Brooking no Favorites"

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Newfoundland and Labrador AG’s “Fiscal Realism”

By Peter Fenwick| 2016-04-04T17:41:17+00:00 November 24th, 2003|Op-ed|

Newfoundland’s Auditor General John Noseworthy has been painting with numbers, and the resulting picture is very bleak indeed. “Fiscal Realism” has proved especially shocking as Newfoundlanders are made more aware of the distinctions between “cash” deficits and accrued deficits. Peter Fenwick comments from Newfoundland.

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Submission to the New Brunswick Government Select Committee on Public Automobile Insurance

By Brian Lee Crowley| 2016-04-04T17:41:37+00:00 November 14th, 2003|Op-ed|

In 2003, automobile insurance became a "hot button" topic, threatening to bring down provincial governments in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is an issue full of emotion, but in this submission to the New Brunswick Government Select Committee on Public Automobile Insurance, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley argues that the idea of putting car insurance into the public sector, is not be all its cracked up to be.

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