Tuition fees: Let those who benefit, pay (NB)
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Tuition fees: Let those who benefit, pay (PEI)
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AIMS tells Post governments hold key to offshore’s survival
The persistence of an onerous costly regulatory and tax regime combined with poor exploration results to date in the Atlantic offshore make further exploration a hard sell to industry executives who can drill in basins around the world. Yet more exploration is vital to producing a viable, long-term industry. Oil and gas is the greatest opportunity Atlantic Canada has known in a generation, but if its current loss of momentum reaches the tipping point, it may take another generation to come back. Yet the same governments that claim to want nothing more than to help Atlantic Canada escape from under-development cannot seem to find the will simply to get out of the way. Read this article to find out more about what governments need to do to lift the regulatory roadblocks to a more robust offshore.
CBC Radio ask AIMS about national pharmacare
As Ottawa and the provinces debate the scope of a national drug coverage programme, CBC Radio asked AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley to comment on whether a national Pharmacare programme is a good idea.
CBC Commentary: AIMS on auto plant subsidies
The Ontario and Federal governments are proposing to give hundreds of millions of dollars to Ford Canada to encourage that firm to build a new car plant in southern Ontario. But do these subsidies produce real value for consumers and taxpayers, or do they enrich companies, their managers and their employees at everyone else's expense? At the invitation of CBC Radio, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues, in this national Commentary piece, that these special deals lower our standard of living and distort the economy, while the main benefit goes to American consumers.
Gas and politics: A volatile mixture, AIMS in the National Post
Gas and politics: A volatile mixture In this piece from the National Post, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley speculates that the political attractiveness of being seen to "do something" about high gasoline prices, and jockeying for short-term political advantage in an unstable minority legislature, may mean that Nova Scotia's Dooks Committee will try to mix gasoline and politics. His conclusion? “Stand well back when that Molotov cocktail meets the white hot anger of consumers and voters who will see all too well who pays and who benefits. I can just see the bumper stickers now: We've been Dooked!”
AIMS Online, 28 July, 2004
Reviving the offshore gas industry, keeping gas prices down, combatting myths about the global oil supply, taking a critical look at the media's treatment of the aquaculture industry, matching business principles and aborginal self government and, celebrating 10 years of AIMS' success.
Can Business and Aboriginal Self-Government Co-Exist?
New AIMS paper says both opportunities and challenges loom for Membertou, Inc..
Doing Business with the Devil
Membertou First Nation, one of the few urban aboriginal reserves in Atlantic Canada, defies stereotypes about poor, mismanaged reserves. Its potholes are filled and new buildings are under construction. However, in spite of its success, Membertou faces serious challenges in the future. In a paper just release by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Jacquelyn Thayer Scott examines the road ahead for the Membertou First Nation. In "Doing Business with the Devil: Land, sovereignty, and corporate partnerships in Membertou Inc., Ms. Scott identifies succession, attitudinal change, cultural erosion and the issues of firewalls and property rights, with their implications for access to capital, as major hurdles facing the leadership.
AIMS fears gas committee will pump up fuel prices
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley's warning that the NS legislature's Standing Committee on gasoline prices is considering regulatory changes that will increase the price of gasoline was taken up in a news story in the Halifax Daily News. Crowley, who appeared before the committee in Truro on 21 July 2004, expressed concern in a media release that the Committee was showing considerable sympathy to the demands of gasoline retailers looking for increased margins, and they were openly canvassing ideas for regulatory schemes to give retailers the increased margins they seek. In his brief before the Committee, Crowley warned that such increased margins could only be created at the expense of consumers. When interviewed for the article, none of the Committee members denied that they were considering regulatory action to give retailers better incomes.